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Chart Listings: Rihanna: U.S. Album Sales
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
Music of The Sunyhad one hit and it sold meh-ish, not bad for an unkown debut artist that didn't smash like perry and gaga and when there were so many girls like her trying to become relevant (Brooke Valentine, Amerie, Teairra Marie and many more)
A Girl Like Me had 2 smashes and it sold well
Good Girl Gone Bad had plenty of hit singles and of course sold massively
Rated R only had 1 hit and sold decent-ish
Loud is selling greatly with 3 hits
Now tell me why people call her "singles artist"? As far as I know singles artist are the ones who only sell singles and not albums, from the receipts I can see she has sold accordingly to how her singles do
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If you mean in the US then I disagree one most of those end words.
Music Of The Sun okay!
A Girl Like Me should have sold about 2 million at least, but it can slide.
GGGB should have sold at the least 3-4 million considering the amount of singles and how successful they all were. It moved 2.6 and B'Day moved 3.2 while Rihanna was at her best. Fergie was selling good, and so was Shakira and a lot of other girls.
Loud is doing good so far, but she should be at 2 million by now with 5 singles?
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
The United States are all soundscan.
AGLM has been confirmed over 3.5 mill, and Rated R has been confirmed over 3 mill.
GGGB IS 9 mill. See my post responding to Satellites. Loud we know and MOTS is an estimate. Its sold 750,000 just between UK and US so it could be even 1,500,000 world wide.
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I need a link to soundscan? could have sworn it was 8 million
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Why are we arguing with these people when it will be our fave that will most probably be #2 in the highest selling albums in the end of the year
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Originally posted by satellites™
Right now? And here I was thinking we were talking about her career. And there's Taylor, Adele, Britney, Gaga, Nicki (I think), and even Katy who are above her on the Billboard 200 at the moment or have sold more if you wanna be technical.
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Just like I said, three or four artists. Gaga, Adele, and Taylor. I guess you could say Nicki but they are within 100,000 copies of eachother if not closer, and Katy is about 100,000 - 200,000 copies ahead of her despite releasing 3 months earlier. Ooop.
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
Rihanna herself confirmed it has .
2.6 mill from US + 1.7 from UK + 3,000,000 from Europe = 7.3 million.
9 million is only 1.7 million from all other countries. Its correct.
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Artist don't always tell the truth.
In just a few weeks Born This Way has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide. I ♥ you Monsters its just the beginning. Real work starts now.
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Taylor Swift And Lady Gaga are the only Mainstream Artist to outsell Rihanna since her debut. Single Artist? Never....
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Originally posted by RatedG
Because I wanna
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get banned
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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
Artist don't always tell the truth.
In just a few weeks Born This Way has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide. I ♥ you Monsters its just the beginning. Real work starts now.
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I'm not liking where this thread is headed
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Originally posted by satellites™
If you mean in the US then I disagree one most of those end words.
Music Of The Sun okay!
A Girl Like Me should have sold about 2 million at least, but it can slide.
GGGB should have sold at the least 3-4 million considering the amount of singles and how successful they all were. It moved 2.6 and B'Day moved 3.2 while Rihanna was at her best. Fergie was selling good, and so was Shakira and a lot of other girls.
Loud is doing good so far, but she should be at 2 million by now with 5 singles?
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But why are you so concerned with how she's doing in the US?
The US to Beyonce is the UK to Rihanna now. Loud has already outsold IASF in the UK. So whats the point in comparing? We're looking at around 2.5 Million+ in the UK after the re-release.
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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
Artist don't always tell the truth.
In just a few weeks Born This Way has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide. I ♥ you Monsters its just the beginning. Real work starts now.
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But you guys were saying DIL sold 11M when Beyoncé said herself it did, why can't we use it too?
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Originally posted by RatedG
I'm not liking where this thread is headed
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You should leave tbh
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Originally posted by dposton
but why are you so concerned with how she's doing in the us
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Because this is the album thread for the US. Get into it
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UPDATE (I used older numbers before)
United States:
Music of the Sun - US: 597,336
A Girl Like Me - US: 1,334,131
Good Girl Gone Bad - US: 2,681,329
Rated R - US: 1,049,600
Loud - US: 1,326,000
Misc (Remix albums + boxsets) - 100,000
TOTAL= 7,088,396
Worldwide:
Music of the Sun - 1,000,000
A Girl Like Me - 3,500,000
Good Girl Gone Bad - 9,000,000
Rated R - 3,000,000
Loud - 4,600,000
Other (remix + boxsets) = 150,000.
TOTAL: 21,250,000
There need be NO aruging after this. EVERYONE read.
Loud could push her US total to 8 or 9 million once it is done.
Her world wide total is AMAZING. Before you call me a liar, MOTS has sold 750,000 JUST with the US and UK, so it probably is way past 1,000,000 World wide, that was just an estimate.
AGLM has been confirmed by her label and other sites that it is around 3.5 million world wide. Again its sold almost 2,000,000 JUST from the US and UK.
Rated R was confirmed by her LABEL that it had sold 3,000,000 world wide.
As for GGGB, 2.6 mill from US + 1.7 from UK + 3,000,000 from Europe = 7.3 million.
Plus all the other countries, including 500k from Canada, it should be around 9 mill or HIGHER and Rihanna has ALREADY CONFIRMED this.
TEA HAS BEEN SERVED.
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Originally posted by Chemist
Amazing singles by the way
I think she is the most succesfull singles-artist, everybody will always remember songs like Umbrella and Disturbia, but nobody will remember from which albums they came off
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I wouldn't say that; while all of Rihanna's singles do really well, Katy's last 5 (I'm including LFN since it's inevitable ) smash. Rihanna is easily the 2nd most successful though, but she makes up for it with the stronger album sales.
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Originally posted by dposton
How many has she sold mr rihanna expert? Just like DIL sold 12 million copies when it fell off the world chart at 7 million ? Add the numbers up playboy!
Or do you want me to post for you? public knowledge.
EDIT: how about I post DIL world chart run .
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Dangerously In Love has sold about a little over 9 million. GGGB is lucky to have hit 8 million, you do not expect us to believe that it sold another MILLION COPIES and without squeezing back into the Top 40 anywhere in the world. Hell, even Adeles debut album is back in the Top 40 around the world, and it hasnt even sold another million yet, one million is a LOT of copies so stop inflating because its not cute.
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I still waiting for the link sis
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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
Artist don't always tell the truth.
In just a few weeks Born This Way has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide. I ♥ you Monsters its just the beginning. Real work starts now.
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Rihanna isnt the only who confirmed this. But how is this so unbelievable when the album is STILL selling in the UK and other countries 4 years after.
It fell off at 7.6 million on world chart, which meant, it still was pushing around 25-35k copies. jUST because an album falls off the chart doesnt mean it stop selling.
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Originally posted by RatedG
Gaga practically has 7 mil in the bag already, with 7 less number 1s
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The Fame: 4.2M
The Fame Monster: 1.5M
Born This Way: 1.4M
Remix: 200K
7.3M
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
Rihanna herself confirmed it has .
2.6 mill from US + 1.7 from UK + 3,000,000 from Europe = 7.3 million.
9 million is only 1.7 million from all other countries. Its correct.
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Beyonce also said DIL sold 11 million, but until someone drops the receipt all we have is he said she said.
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Originally posted by RatedG
Gaga practically has 7 mil in the bag already, with 7 less number 1s
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And you better pray she would be still exist after BTW.
Anyways LOUD
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