Considering how heavily promoted Do What U Want...for it to not even hit top 10 = flop.
Cuz if that was the case You Da One isn't considered a flop either.
One of the funniest posts I've read on this site yet!
Anyways. It's because Rihanna doesn't expose herself to the same kind of promotion that Lady Gaga and Katy Perry go through. A lot of her hits are just kind of naturally hits.
Are we going into album sales now.I hope not. Because some people's album is not charting in UK and US after such a short time. Nonetheless, Rihanna remains the standard of success and the global hit machine who never stops.Afterall who can forget Diamonds, the song which is Diamond in France,spent 16 weeeks number 1 in SA, 10 weeks in Norway and Germany and has sold more than 1 million copies in UK. Enough with this thread tho.
Her yearly releases & tabloid antics take attention from her failed singles. As long as the first one, maybe two smash, who cares about the 3rd, 4th or even 5th? There will be a collection of "new" one's in just 8 short months.
This thread is not questioning Rihanna, Katy and Gaga's success.
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I think her argument is that the enormity of Rihanna's success makes up for her flops and consequently she doesn't need to be forgiven for them. She's unapologetic, if you will.
Edit: There doesn't exist any official remix of the song. I am sorry for that. That remix cannot be bought anywhere legally.
Glad to know that you remember what she has performed as a small intro on SNL. You should know also that that performance was in May months after its peak and success.
So you're saying that the highly publicized Chris Brown feature didn't sell the song at all even if the remix itself wasn't available?
And why is that just because I know she performed it that I should know the date? No need to be sassy. A simple correction is fine. I didn't know it was in May.
im sorry but which part of my post did i mention katy perry making a song with mj?
but lets get back to the main discussion of the thread shall we...
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I doubt they can say they made a song with legends Eminem and Jay-z
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i doubt people can say their fav tied legend mj for the most #1 singles off an album too. but lets get back to the point of this thread, which isnt regarding the achievements of the 3 girls.
Are we going into album sales now. Because some people's album is not charting in UK and US after such a short time. Nonetheless, Rihanna remains the standard of success and the global hit machine who never stops.Afterall who can forget Diamonds, the song which is Diamond in France,spent 16 weeeks number 1 in SA, 10 weeks in Norway and Germany and has sold more than 1 million copies in UK. Enough with this thread tho.
This is entirely irrelevant to the thread. We all know Rihanna is hugely successful. The thread is to discuss why her songs that aren't successful are not as criticized as some other popstars, even ones with better single success rates.
Because this tells that she is the number 1 artist of this generation on that front. If you are willing to doubt the artist ranked number 1 then god knows what can be said for others.
But wasn't enough to carry the album pass 1.2M. I know all about it.
Please.....dont.... ur fave barely sold over that with her last album and is only going to slightly over the 4.1 RiRi's album WW with this current one.
I love ur fave as much as I love RIRI but dont start with numbers.....
This is entirely irrelevant to the thread. We all know Rihanna is hugely successful. The thread is to discuss why her songs that aren't' successful are not as criticized as some other popstars, even ones with better single success rates.
Because being too successful dismisses the theory that's why. Her flops are minimal and are either exclusively urban songs or terribly ignored and not promoted songs.
It is okay. You are nice.