[Beautiful Liar]

1989 has outsold Gaga's latest Pop release within hours of release, it outsold Prism in 2 weeks, and BEYONCE in 3 weeks those are the factual examples of Taylor's reign. Those projects were not able to surpass the global success and sales of "Unapologetic" and this makes Rihanna a threat to Taylor, so is Rihanna with "R8" gonna put a end to Taylor's dominating reign?

[Delilah.]

yes easily!

[Madam X]

[AMENHOOKER]

No. R8 will have bigger hits than 1989 but it won't outsell it.

[Ash12345]

Unapologetic didn't do much to stop red.
Reds still like 2.5m ahead according to mediatraffic.
Pop girls can slay at the same time as well. Both taylor and Rih can do well.

[Artemisia]

She's not opening with bigger numbers than Taylor, that's for sure. And her album likely won't sell as well as 1989. So no.

[Bounce]

1989 already outsold Rihanna's last 2 albums and it will outsell Loud in a month or 2

[Beautiful Liar]

Originally posted by Bounce

1989 already outsold Rihanna's last 2 albums and it will outsell Loud in a month or 2

Loud is much greater in every way

[Bounce]

Originally posted by Beautiful Liar

Loud is much greater in every way

1989 is more acclaimed in every way

[Beautiful Liar]

Originally posted by Bounce

1989 is more acclaimed in every way

Not when LOUD is GRAMMY AOTY nominee and a GRAMMY winning era

[CupidsSanity]

No one can put an end to Taylor's reign. She will just have to fade........ Eventually

[Rafael]

BEYONCÉ surpassed Unapologetic. False information in the OP. Invalid thread by Beautiful Liar once again.

[Rafael]

Originally posted by Beautiful Liar

Not when LOUD is GRAMMY AOTY nominee and a GRAMMY winning era

1989 is 1 month old. Should it have Grammys?

[CupidsSanity]

Originally posted by Rafael

BEYONCÉ surpassed Unapologetic. False information in the OP. Invalid thread by Beautiful Liar once again.

Thanks to the re release maybe but Beyonce wasn't going to outsell without it

[Duca]

Taylor has been much bigger than Rihanna for a long while now so no

[P!nkism]

Tbh i would love that but Red has sold 6m while Unapologetic has sold 3.5m

Maybe P!nk can though TTAL was not very far from Red in numbers and it only debuted with 280k compared to Red's 1m

[Beautiful Liar]

Originally posted by Rafael

BEYONCÉ surpassed Unapologetic. False information in the OP. Invalid thread by Beautiful Liar once again.

Not true "Unapologetic" era is much greater and with only 4 video's the album stalled at 4 million mark, BEYONCE with 16 video's all at once didn't come close to 4 million

[Robinladen]

um.. no? Taylor is far bigger than Rihanna.

[PULSE.]

Those projects were not able to surpass the global success and sales of "Unapologetic" and this makes Rihanna

BEYONCÉ did. + a AOTY nod.

[Artemisia]

Originally posted by Beautiful Liar

Not when LOUD is GRAMMY AOTY nominee and a GRAMMY winning era

1989 metascore: 76

Loud metascore: 67

1989 End of Year list placements:

# 15 - A.V. Club
# 4 - American Songwriter
# 1 - Billboard
# 1 - Cosmopolitan
# 2 - Digital Spy
# 3 - Drowned in Sound
# 18 - FasterLouder
# 32 - musicOMH
NPR Music
# 15 - PopMatters
# 17 - Pretty Much Amazing
# 10 - Rolling Stone
# 34 - SPIN
# 22 - Stereogum
# 12 - The Guardian
The Line of Best Fit
# 5 - The Telegraph
# 4 - TIME
# 15 - Time Out London

Loud end of year list placements:

N/A