Rihanna has already reached / very nearly reached the amount of hits Madonna had in 25 years everywhere, so she doesn't need to last 25 years to match her anyways. Rihanna's hits already also defined an entire generation, she could never get another hit, and she would still go down as the defining hit maker of this generation.
Rihanna has already reached / very nearly reached the amount of hits Madonna had in 25 years everywhere, so she doesn't need to last 25 years to match her anyways. Rihanna's hits already also defined an entire generation, she could never get another hit, and she would still go down as the defining hit maker of this generation.
Of this generation sure, but you said all time.
Madonna still has more Top 10 hits than her in America. Rihanna might not catch up, considering she'll hit 30 soon and it doesn't seem like she'll be putting out albums as quickly as before. Rihanna also has way more flops, whereas Madonna didn't miss the Top 40 with any of her singles until 1995 with "Bedtime Story", 12 years after her debut, and only missed the Hot 100 for the first time with "Hollwyood" 20 years after her debut.
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this morning I was driving and 7 Streeter was on the radio doing an interview
She said the song she "regrets" giving up the most is the Way by Ariana and started talking about racism in the music industry and how if she had sang the song...pop radio would've never played it
Now my rebuttal to that is...The Way was a shocker to everyone and if Arianators had not shot that song to #1 on itunes it would've been ignored on radio as well...I don't think her race had much to do with it
I think it would have been a hit regardless of Number 1 on iTunes or not. It just screamed hit. Tha sample was tha icing on tha cake
Madonna still has more Top 10 hits than her in America. Rihanna might not catch up, considering she'll hit 30 soon and it doesn't seem like she'll be putting out albums as quickly as before.
She's both. The hit maker of this generation and on track to being the biggest female hit maker ever.
Compare Madonna's amount of hits at 28 years old or 11 years into her career to Rihanna's lol. And Rihanna really isn't fading from getting hits anytime soon, if she could get multiple smashes during this messy era for her career then really nothing is holding her back.
What album has ever sold 18M copies in only two years???
it makes sense though, in this era gold is the standard most albums reach, and 1989 will go 6x platinum (pure sales). When has an artist ever been consistently selling 12 times their nearest competitions albums. There is adele but she releases so far apart and taylor has more hits and celebrity
Madonna still has more Top 10 hits than her in America. Rihanna might not catch up, considering she'll hit 30 soon and it doesn't seem like she'll be putting out albums as quickly as before. Rihanna also has way more flops, whereas Madonna didn't miss the Top 40 with any of her singles until 1995 with "Bedtime Story", 12 years after her debut, and only missed the Hot 100 for the first time with "Hollwyood" 20 years after her debut.
Madonna had non-stop hits during a 25 year span, Rihanna isn't even close to that yet. And Madonna co-wrote and co-produced the majority of her hits too, unlike Rihanna. So calling Madonna a "hitmaker" is actually accurate because she made the hits. Same thing with Mariah.
Rihanna has writing camps upon writing camps with top talent crafting music made for radio with an unlimited budget. Of course she's going to get hit after hit after hit. But Madonna did the same while actually making all the music herself, she wrote the majority of the toplines (melody and vocals) from LAP onwards.
Rihanna has more number ones hits than Madge and did it faster than Madge could... And Madonna has had her flop singles in between having those hits...
Rihanna has more number ones hits than Madge and did it faster than Madge could... And Madonna has had her flop singles in between having those hits...
Madonna and Rih have the same amount of "flop singles" if you look between Live a Virgin and Music.
American Life was the first time she really had songs that were downright flops.
She's both. The hit maker of this generation and on track to being the biggest female hit maker ever.
Compare Madonna's amount of hits at 28 years old or 11 years into her career to Rihanna's lol. And Rihanna really isn't fading from getting hits anytime soon, if she could get multiple smashes during this messy era for her career then really nothing is holding her back.
Madonna started her career a lot later so the age comparison is useless. At the same point in her career, Madonna had ten or eleven #1 hits, all as a lead artist, half of which she wrote the topline melody and lyrics for (the most important element of a hit). She had never missed the Top 40. Seems like a bigger hitmaker to me.
Everyone today has more flops than artists from the 1980s lol, you're neglecting the Hot 100 works so differently now.
Mariah, Madonna, Janet, Whitney, etc had crazy streaks where like their first 20 singles didn't flop. I'm sure labels could mess with the charts then more, which is why half of their hits were barely remembered next year (a single as irrelevant as Thank God I Found You could never skyrocket to #1 today lol).
Not to mention back then there was literally 30+ #1s per year, most #1's spent 1-2 weeks #1, and there was also like triple more Top 10s. Charting higher then was much easier in a literal statistical aspect which makes Rihanna's amount of Top 10s and #1's very impressive.
Rihanna has more number ones hits than Madge and did it faster than Madge could... And Madonna has had her flop singles in between having those hits...
No she hasn't She didn't have a real flop single until 12 years after her debut.
Everyone today has more flops than artists from the 1980s lol, you're neglecting the Hot 100 works so differently now.
Mariah, Madonna, Janet, Whitney, etc had crazy streaks where like their first 20 singles didn't flop. I'm sure labels could mess with the charts then more, which is why half of their hits were barely remembered next year (a single as irrelevant as Thank God I Found You could never skyrocket to #1 today lol).
Not to mention back then there was literally 30+ #1s per year, most #1's spent 1-2 weeks #1, and there was also like triple more Top 10s. Charting higher then was much easier in a literal statistical aspect which makes Rihanna's amount of Top 10s and #1's very impressive.
Don't extrapolate Mariah's shady 49 cent discount #1s to other artists PLENTY of acts had flop singles back then, Madonna is the highest selling female artist and Queen of Pop for a reason. The chart turnover was faster but her hits were huge, hence The Immaculate Collection being the highest selling female compilation album ever.
Rihanna has more number ones hits than Madge and did it faster than Madge could... And Madonna has had her flop singles in between having those hits...
She didn't have a real flop single until 12 years after her debut.