[itsAllen]

Originally posted by Alpha

bey's new material was hyped, she opened the grammys and it had an official video
stop acting like it had no promotion and stop making up excuses for the mediocre sales

Radio was confused on which single the Queen wanted them to support.
XO shouldn't have been the first single. Her team should have went straight to Drunk In Love.

[Reader]

The fumes.

Lots of touring acts sell decently with albums without even a sniff of a hit single. The difference here is that Beyoncé is obviously trying very hard for a hit - see X/O, Pretty Hurts.

[QueenBeyoncé]

Originally posted by JessPop

So performing at The Grammys and Brit Awards isn't enough promo? DIL wasn't the best single choice anyway with that misogynistic rap verse being included but the GP had no incentive to keep supporting her singles anyway when they already had everything upon purchase of the album. A better question would be: why hasn't she been able to sell more than the regular amount of units Rihanna and Katy move given all of the hype surrounding the album?

BEYONCE sold over 3.5 million in 3 months. Rihanna's 2 albums took over 6 months to cross 3 million ww and over 1 year to barley topping 1 million in the U.S. with huge #1 hits like We Found Love (her BIGGEST hit of her career) and Diamonds and almost 2 years since her last album and it's still in the 3 million mark. Katy Perry even with the huge successful singles, Katy Perry album hasn't even cross 3 million copies ww and barley cross 1 million in the states. So sit.

[BeyBoy]

I think that she doesn't care about single because of the hype of the album, she put out all the track at the same time so she knew that she won't get another hit! I think that for this era she just wanted a succesful album!

[Popboi.]

Originally posted by beyawnse

Because of the successful singles she had shortly before it."

By that logic Ego, Diva and Video Phone should've been hits.

[RihannasVeryOwn]

Originally posted by AnginaWilliams

Yet, here she is, the biggest female touring act of her generation and arguable the biggest star in the world without a hit single.



There goes that theory...

Lmao I see going back and forth with you is proving futile

I guess this is your way of saying she WONT get another hit again. Cool.

[umich]

If she releases SotS and sends it to all formats, then yes.

[superben]

Drunk In Love had promotion, though

The excuses.

[KingOfUrbanPop]

Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn

Cheers (Drink To That) was never once performed yet its 2x platinum

Sorry for me not clarifying I meant a 2 X PLATINUM ALBUM ...

[Popboi.]

Originally posted by Reader

The fumes.

Lots of touring acts sell decently with albums without even a sniff of a hit single. The difference here is that Beyoncé is obviously trying very hard for a hit - see X/O, Pretty Hurts.

The real fumes come from the ones avoiding the question in the OP, it's not hard to answer or is it?

[Music=Epicness]

Originally posted by KingOfUrbanPop

She only had ONE WW Single which she promoted ONCE in the UK and the other ones were US URBAN SINGLES that slayed their intended format and one was promoted at the Grammys. Tell me when the other girls can get close to 2X platinum in the US with one televised performance.

Dark Horse.

[QueenBeyoncé]

Originally posted by Popboi.

By that logic Ego, Diva and Video Phone should've been hits.

Ego and Diva were Urban hits the format they were release to.

[KingOfUrbanPop]

Originally posted by superben

Drunk In Love had promotion, though

The excuses.

One Grammy performance while the other girls promote their lead singles how many times ?

[beyawnse]

Originally posted by Reader

The difference here is that Beyoncé is obviously trying very hard for a hit - see X/O, Pretty Hurts.

????

If she was trying for it to be a hit, she would've sent it to Pop and released it before the album drop with the MV premiering on VEVO. She's obviously not giving a **** for a hit. Pretty Hurts isn't even released to Radio yet.

[Havoc]

Does she need one? She's still bigger and more respected than your faves without one so...

[RihannasVeryOwn]

Originally posted by KingOfUrbanPop

Sorry for me not clarifying I meant a 2 X PLATINUM ALBUM ...

Loud is nearly 2x plat in the USA
It's funny because it's sold more in the UK than it has the US. Global ICON!

[Chronix]

Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn

She's not really
The album has sold 3.5 million WW, around the same as any Rihanna album.

If bey is an album artist selling 3.5 million, then so is Rihanna.

Let's not compare sales to an album thats been released for more than 1.5+ year to an album that's been released for ~5 months.

[AnginaWilliams]

Originally posted by Popboi.

The real fumes come from the ones avoiding the question in the OP, it's not hard to answer or is it?

No. The actual fumes comes from people trying hard to present Beyonce has a flop because she's lacking hit singles and trying to present their faves as bigger than what they are because all they have is hit singles.

[Reader]

Originally posted by Popboi.

The real fumes come from the ones avoiding the question in the OP, it's not hard to answer or is it?

Even with the words "hit" and "single" in the thread title we are here discussing albums and touring.

[RihannasVeryOwn]

Originally posted by Havoc

Does she need one? She's still bigger and more respected than your faves without one so...

COULD she get one?

Is this question really that hard to answer lmao