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Poll: Bigger Career: Rihanna vs. Taylor Swift
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T. Swift.
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45.96% |
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RiRi
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54.04% |
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The backfire 
Rihanna sold 31m albums btw.
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Rihanna
'Music Of The Sun' (2005) 1,4 million
'A Girl Like Me' (2006) 3,2 million
'Good Girl Gone Bad' (2007) 8,5 million
'Rated R' (2009) 3,2 million
'Loud' (2010) 6 million
'Talk That Talk' (2011) 3,8 million
'Unapologetic' (2012) 3,6 million
Total: 29,7 million
These are Rihanna's album sales according to Mediatraffic. They are working on Taylor's!
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Originally posted by lonnie
TS hasn't sold 6M WW, neither did MEAN, I believe the sales were at 5.something but not 6, Fearless hasn't sold 10M WW too.
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Math says at least one of them did
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still waiting on the explanation Ionnie
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Taylor better album sales. Bigger touring numbers bigger networth. Rihanna has singles.
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I think Taylor has always been successful but she still has yet to reach the type of Influence and star power that rihanna has.
When it's all said and done Rihanna's music/style and career will be more talked about.
Even now during her successful era Rihanna is more talked about.
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Although Taylor has sold more albums, Rih's career/brand has had a bigger impact and will be remembered more
Albums really aren't everything, especially nowadays
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Originally posted by Monkey_Juice
I think Taylor has always been successful but she still has yet to reach the type of Influence and star power that rihanna has.
When it's all said and done Rihanna's music/style and career will be more talked about.
Even now during her successful era Rihanna is more talked about. |
Yeah right 
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Originally posted by EthaneFenty
Although Taylor has sold more albums, Rih's career/brand has had a bigger impact and will be remembered more
Albums really aren't everything, especially nowadays
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well yes, she also has her touring, acclaim, awards, AOTY, and Social Media Presence from the superficial
Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Tabloids etc. as well as writing for Wall Street Journal, being on the cover of TIme (solo) as well as Bloomberg, being named entrepreneur of the year and #6 on top 50 leaders of the world (the only celeb) by Fortune 500 etc.
not necessarily disagreeing just showing Taylor, "Impact" goes far beyond her album sales 
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Why do you need to be big in Europe while you can get more sales and money in US alone than Europe combined? 
and being big in europe doesnt mean you're bigger artist. Europe =/= Worldwide
what kind of arrogant opinion that always brought everytime this kind of thread made
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The bias in the OP is embarrassing
Why wouldnt you put overall record sales instead of just album sales 
And you left out other important information like Billboard records like 13 #1s and 26 (soon to be 27) top10 hits (tying her with Mariah Carey / Janet)
Rihanna is by far more impressive only swifties and pressed hive will say otherwise
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Originally posted by Safe&Sound
Why do you need to be big in Europe while you can get more sales and money in US alone than Europe combined?
and being big in europe doesnt mean you're bigger artist. Europe =/= Worldwide
what kind of arrogant opinion that always brought everytime this kind of thread made |
Yes but europe has most of the biggest music markets in the world. sorry! your the one being ignorant (i assume you meant to say that instead of arrogant)
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Taylor. 
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Originally posted by Homebrand
The bias in the OP is embarrassing
Why wouldnt you put overall record sales instead of just album sales
And you left out other important information like Billboard records like 13 #1s and 26 (soon to be 27) top10 hits (tying her with Mariah Carey / Janet)
Rihanna is by far more impressive only swifties and pressed hive will say otherwise |
Albums T
Singles R
Tours T
Awards T
Acclaim T
Record's Tie (being generous)
Videos R
Fashion R
Business T
Social Media Tie
Corporate Media T
US T
Canada T
Australia T
Europe R
South America R
Africa R(?)
Asia T
T 
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Rihanna: more albums solds, more singles solds, bigger tour, more covers, more ednorsements, just everything about
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Quote:
Originally posted by MaRy
Rihanna: more albums solds, more singles sold, bigger tour, more covers, more ednorsements, just everything about
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I hate how people say albums arent everything. Singles are used to promote albums. What do all the greatest artists of all time have in common? They all have historic albums, either sales wise or critically. All that other crap, "How many vogue covers, how many twitter followers" is **** people arent going to care about or remember. I mean, how the hell do you even measure media impact between two people that have such ridiculous amounts of it? Its such a stupid argument, and it comes down to subjective opinion. You guys are going around in circles, all we have is numbers, Taylor has sold more albums that Rihanna, therefor as a recording artist, she is more successful. Taylors tours have grossed more than Rihannas, so as a live act, she is more successful, all that other media quantitative ******** is something that the celebrity volunteers to do based on their star power, which is something that cant be measured because both of them have so much of it.
Also, the U.S is the largest market, so bringing up worldwide sales is kinda dumb when an artist can sell 3x amount of music in this country than anywhere else. Its the largest market, and its the most sought after one.
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Only Adele is bigger than Taylor.
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Originally posted by Eternium
Rihanna
'Music Of The Sun' (2005) 1,4 million
'A Girl Like Me' (2006) 3,2 million
'Good Girl Gone Bad' (2007) 8,5 million
'Rated R' (2009) 3,2 million
'Loud' (2010) 6 million
'Talk That Talk' (2011) 3,8 million
'Unapologetic' (2012) 3,6 million
Total: 29,7 million
These are Rihanna's album sales according to Mediatraffic. They are working on Taylor's! |
I swear I see you in EVERY thread about Rihanna....saying the SAME negative stuff!
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Taylor it would seem, with less albums 
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Originally posted by kennylovesRihanna
I swear I see you in EVERY thread about Rihanna....saying the SAME negative stuff!
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LOL, Eternium is always stating the facts even when they are about his own fave. Dont try it 
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