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Originally posted by DimmiFenty
ugh, fixed.
Beyonce has nearly 20 years in the game.
Rihanna has 8.
Rihanna can release an album yearly and still sell more than Beyonce's last album, which was Highly Promoted, with a fourth of the promo.
How about we wait until 5, because with every year Rihanna's music continues to advance, while Beyonce still hasn't made an album better, or even close to her first.
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And even with an eight year difference in the number of years since they've debuted, they have pretty much the same number of albums released with Beyonce at 8 in her 16 year career and Rihanna at 7 in her 8 year career. Again this comparing ages/amount of time since debut etc. is really stale -- Rihanna is releasing literally two times as quickly. With her accelerated pacing, she is literally at the same point career wise and still has yet to hit a lot of the milestones Bey has achieved, but, not even sure if that matters as she's hit a lot of milestones on her own which is great. She is literally the poster child for digital success.
Rihanna can barely outsell a severely underperforming album of Bey's with little mainstream radio support and zero top tens with huge smash hits. There has never been a time where Bey had an album with at least one major hit that sold less than six million+ where that tends to be the norm for Rihanna. Bey remains a much stronger album seller, period; no matter how much spinning is done, the numbers can't be argued. But, Bey's radio it girl hey day was before the digital era took off and she has the advantage of having a fan base that's a little older and are accustomed to purchasing full albums as opposed to tracks which is reason 3940292039 why it's stupid to compare their careers. Bey's career is one of the last examples of 90s/early 2000s commercial success and Rih's is the prototype for digital age success in an increasingly singles driven market.
What you consider to be musical advancement is absolutely subjective. I personally think it's laughable to say that Bey hasn't progressed from her debut and imply that Rihanna has evolved from Caribbean flavored Bubblegum to Joni Mitchell realness as Pour It Up plays in the background, but, OK.