[collin]

The fact that she will stay well above 60K a second week thanks to physical albums and hopefully being added to streaming services.

[M A R C]

Originally posted by POKER

no one would ever decline a free album. and sorry to break it to you but you know literally , otherwise pm me your fortune telling degree / certificate,it's common sense that any decently mainstream artist would have their album downloaded in an instant if it was put up for free , but it if makes you sleep at night to believe that your faves "popularity" was the reason why people downloaded a FREE ALBUM, and that the same exact thing was the reason behind the fact that less than 100k people are predicted to buy it this week then by all means you are free to believe your own lies lol.

Mess @ you thinking every single artist would get 1 million downloads if they posted a free album giveaway on their social media.

You literally had to put in your email, first and last name, and a code.
No one forced these people to do all of that for a Rihanna album.

[Shame♥]

The fact that the number isn't pure album sales.

[Mattyboy]

Rihanna getting her second #1 album without even trying.

Scoring another top 10 so effortless. She's slaying.

[carameldelight]

There's is no point even arguing this anymore. There is no guarantee that the 1m people who downloaded the album would have even bought Anti. So to use that an excuse makes no sense. Again Beyonce's album leaked a MONTH in advance with MILLIONS of people already listening to it and still sold over 300k. So spare the excuses.

[Badger]

Interesting

[Miley Ray Cyrus]

Originally posted by Losing my ground

I heard ANTi sold 460 copies, somebody could explain?

It sold 460 in pure sales 3 hours before the counting period closed. It had 4 million streams and debuted at #27 in the official charts.

[MikeFenty]

Rihanna didn't receive a massive promotion or "hype" campaign like Jay-Z did, also sales when Jay-Z released > now. These are decent considering everything.
She's still platinum, and she'll probably be multi-platinum considering new RIAA rules, and she'll be happy with her paycheck from Samsung

[Cz!]

Lol you can get any album you want for free in 2016. Literally every album. That ain't no excuse.

[MikeFenty]

Originally posted by collin

The fact that she will stay well above 60K a second week thanks to physical albums and hopefully being added to streaming services.

Then she'll remain steady thanks to Grammys, and hopefully Work video. Queen of Longevity!

[***Chu]

Dead at giving away 1M copies would affect her real sales. Those 1M copies would have still been up on other illegal sharing platforms. They just don't pay for it, period. Bionic could have been considered going Platinum based on your rationale.

This is such a tragic number for all the hype (Samsung Antidiarhea, 3 buzz singles, Kanye-produced, timeless music, a tour announcement). Now she wishes she didn't cancel that Victoria Secret Show for more exposure. Maybe with that she could scan more than 150k lol

[BoricuaMonster]

Daaaaamn at Rihanna's numbers. Lol. Possibly less than 100K is not good regardless of some excuses. But at least she's going #1 so congrats!!

And so happy for Sia!! did not expect her to do that much!

[collin]

Originally posted by Shame♥

The fact that the number isn't pure album sales.

The fact that the album isn't available on any streaming outlets besides Tidal...?

You tried.

[Lose My Breath]

Originally posted by collin

It was 95K with streaming, and it was not
- No physical album
- No streaming
- 1 million copies given away for free
- No prior hit
- Worst month for album sales
- No iTunes banner

This is embarrassing, you keep coming with all these excuses

[gerardsuxx]

amazing numbers

[Coklek92]

Originally posted by collin

It was 95K with streaming, and it was not
- No physical album
- No streaming
- 1 million copies given away for free
- No prior hit
- Worst month for album sales
- No iTunes banner

No it's not.
Badlands's debut week : 115k (SPS), 97k (pure sales).
And most important is Halsey almost unknown compared to Rihanna who is one of the biggest pop stars right now.

[taylamour]

Originally posted by idkher

I understood what you were saying and it still makes no sense. The 1.4m free copies absolutely affected the buying population especially casual fans who would have likely bought the album had it been a traditional release

You're not getting that there are buying trends with populations. The people taking advantage of the Samsung offer are either 1) legit fans of Rihanna who wanted the album asap and would've dl'ed it legal or not and 2) people who wouldn't have wanted to pay for it. Tidal has a small audience and nobody in the typical music buying population would've been aware of the deal. Middle-American music buyers are not Twitter or ATRL, they acquire music the way they always have. What Samsung/Tidal tried to do was get people who take advantage of streaming/illegal downloads and try to be one step ahead, but it still didn't make a difference for most other people.

Also, millions of people illegally download music, so to say that the people who downloaded it through this deal would've otherwise purchased the music is so unrealistic.

[collin]

Originally posted by Cz!

Lol you can get any album you want for free in 2016. Literally every album. That ain't no excuse.

The GP =/= pop girl obsessed ATRL and Tumblr.
People don't get how to download things illegally; people are stupid.

[***Chu]

Originally posted by carameldelight

There's is no point even arguing this anymore. There is no guarantee that the 1m people who downloaded the album would have even bought Anti. So to use that an excuse makes no sense. Again Beyonce's album leaked a MONTH in advance with MILLIONS of people already listening to it and still sold over 300k. So spare the excuses.

Exactly. The Tidal give-away campaign is the equivalent of traditional album releases leakage. The only different is that it generates press coverage for her (RIAA platinum certification) which, actually, helps her more with the promotion. Yet she can't still pull good numbers. This is even worse than her first two mixtapes' numbers.

[POKER]

when you realize that artpop has sold x2.5 (260k) what this is predicted to sell in it's first week (<100k) it puts things in perspective, such a colossal commercial failure, Roc nation must be devastated .

I mean when you do almost three times less than artpop which was regarded as a flop album by Atrl then you really ****ed up, the worse thing is that they already gave out 1 million free albums which means 1million less potential album buyers, so the future sales of this album are really not going to go up by much