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Chart Listings: Billboard Hot 100 Singles (November 18-25, 2010)
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Rihanna is generally more popular than P!nk. Some fanbases use the "she's a pop artist" excuse TOO heavily. Rihanna's had enough major hits, and been here long enough to play in the big courtyard. Lady GaGa has proven that. The issue is people don't want to buy a Rihanna album.
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Meh, Why is Rihanna more popular than Pink?, Pink has even more twitter followers. The thing is that you guys love to hate Rihanna because of her stans
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Originally posted by chemist
Britney is a special case
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Sales are so low.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Jealous much?
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No, Taylor didn't hit #1 on the Hot 100 despite selling 325K, but as Paul Grein pointed out she outsold many albums' entire runs in one week. There's nothing to be jealous about.
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Originally posted by chemist
Meh, Why is Rihanna more popular than Pink?, Pink has even more twitter followers. The thing is that you guys love to hate Rihanna because of her stans
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You're honestly going to sit here and tell me straight-faced that P!nk is as popular as Rihanna? Rihanna is simply more mainstream. As Captain Planet said P!nk has had a great amount of success, but she is a major underdog, and not as popularized as the other girls.
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Rihanna has never been a big bit first week seller, but this album is full of HITZ. im sure she can pull at least 2 platinum by the end of the era.
The World already eating this album alive. Loud is #1 on itunes in almost every single countries in europe, plus she is predicted to sell 100k in the UK this week. She is even #1 in JAPAN itunes which is the second largest music market in the WORLD( i see at least 60k come dat alone)!
i can see her pull dat 500k WW effortless. US sales is extremly important, but RIRI got the WORLD to back her up, and that why she is a WW superstar.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Rihanna is generally more popular than P!nk. The issue is people don't want to buy a Rihanna album.
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I agree. I was gonna use the "longevity is what it matters" since P!nk is always opening with around 150k and she ends up outselling everyone. Well, not in US, but she has huge sales WW. Around 7 million with Funhouse. But i remembered that Rihanna is not really an album selling artist, her singles are always huge, i don't remember some of her singles flopping.
To all Rihanna fans, just don't worry, your girl has a record at BB, just accept that she is a huge single seller and a "mediocre" one when it comes to albums.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Male pop artists is a completely different area & argument.
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Originally posted by N@te
I agree. I was gonna use the "longevity is what it matters" since P!nk is always opening with around 150k and she ends up outselling everyone. Well, not in US, but she has huge sales WW. Around 7 million with Funhouse. But i remembered that Rihanna is not really an album selling artists, her singles are always huge, i don't remember some of her singles flopping.
To all Rihanna fans, just don't worry, your girl has a record at BB, just accept that she is a huge single seller and a "mediocre" one when it comes to albums.
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i do agree that Rihanna is a Huge single artist and mediocre album seller, but that only in the US though. GGGB is a slow burner, and those huge hitz singles helped her sell tons n tons of ALBUM. i hope the same thing happen to loud.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
You're honestly going to sit here and tell me straight-faced that P!nk is as popular as Rihanna? Rihanna is simply more mainstream. As Captain Planet said P!nk has had a great amount of success, but she is a major underdog, and not as popularized as the other girls.
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You're forgeting that Pink has a huge support in adult radio stations, maybe for youg people Rihanna can be more popular, but Pink is faaar more popular for adults.
And Rihanna is coming from a kind of a flop era, if she were coming from an era like GGGB and with 2 smashes, those number would be something to worry. Now those numbers are just fine
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Originally posted by chemist
You're forgeting that Pink has a huge support in adult radio stations, maybe for youg people Rihanna can be more popular, but Pink is faaar more popular for adults.
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That's correct.
P!nk's singles or album songs aren't selling extraordinary in the first days on iTunes, while at artists such as Riri or Taylor singles are flying to the top in a second. It's due the fact that P!nk doesn't have a strong fanbase which is consisted of young people.
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Originally posted by chemist
You're forgeting that Pink has a huge support in adult radio stations, maybe for youg people Rihanna can be more popular, but Pink is faaar more popular for adults.
And Rihanna is coming from a kind of a flop era, if she were coming from an era like GGGB and with 2 smashes, those number would be something to worry. Now those numbers are just fine
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That's why I used the word generally in my initial post. We can break down the science of which format they are most popular at, what states buy which album by them more, the race they are most popular in, etc. etc. Generally in the media Rihanna is a name you hear before P!nk, so she should be able to pull healthier numbers.
Hopefully she can keep producing radio-ready songs, but soon when another new chick comes that won't help her keep up.
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Originally posted by N@te
I agree. I was gonna use the "longevity is what it matters" since P!nk is always opening with around 150k and she ends up outselling everyone. Well, not in US, but she has huge sales WW. Around 7 million with Funhouse. But i remembered that Rihanna is not really an album selling artist, her singles are alwayshuge, i don't remember some of her singles flopping.
To all Rihanna fans, just don't worry, your girl has a record at BB, just accept that she is a huge single seller and a "mediocre" one when it comes to albums.
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Have you heard about this song
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Originally posted by Disturbia
Have you heard about this song
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That's one of my fav songs of her!!!! It sounds so good in my car, one of my summer jams this year. How can this flop
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That's one of my fav songs of her!!!! It sounds so good in my car, one of my summer jams this year. How can this flop
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It isn't radio friendly song, it hardly reached 0.9 Al. Well, Rihanna has some flops like every artist. LOL
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Ugh so much chatter and no full chart posted! Where is it?!
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Hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeerzzz you are maddddddddd d
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Ok i decidet to NOT give up and I'll keep supporting OG because I really think it has a chance for number 1 this LOUD week...The main competition will be Pink but she is still behind Bruno so I think she doesnt have so good numbers in airplay like mediabase says...:-D
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Originally posted by jack516
Ok i decidet to NOT give up and I'll keep supporting OG because I really think it has a chance for number 1 this LOUD week...The main competition will be Pink but she is still behind Bruno so I think she doesnt have so good numbers in airplay like mediabase says...:-D
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I'm not giving up, but this week will probably be her last chance.
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OG's airplay just needs to remain steady. With two versions charting it should finally give her an edge over LAG6. So for now, it just depends on how much Pink sells next week, because the airplay gap should still be between 10 and 15 million.
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