It is a little weird that Rihanna's albums don't sell that great...
yeah...
Even when she released "S.O.S", a huge hit, I was expectiing great sales with her previous album... but, no....
I guess people just don't give a lot of credit to her... And I guess people got tired of buying "teen pop" albums (except "High School Musical" that had great sales in the U.S because that went ahead of albums and music.... it is more about tv...) Rihanna is not teen-pop, but she is a teenager yet.
I mean, just think of this:
Jojo's new album - flop (even though "Too little too late" HAD A TOTAL POTENCIAL to become a huge hit)
Hillary Duff's new album - flop (I'm sorry, Hillary's fans... I don't mean to be bad... but that's a fact... sorry...)
Vanessas Hudgens's new album - flop
Aly and AJ's new album - flop (even though "Breakup song" has the potencial to become a hit in Europe...
)
Clay Aiken's latest album - flop
Jesse McCartney's latest album - flop
Ryan Cabrera's latest album - flop
People buy albums from solid and original pop... and that shows some carisma e mature style from the artists! I mean, look at the best selling pop-albums of the latest few years:
Madonna's "Confession of a dancefloor"
Justin Timberlake's "Futuresex/Lovesounds"
Nellly Furtado's "Loose"
James Blunt's "Back To Bedlam"
Pussycat Dolls' "PCD"
Black Eyed Peas "Monkey Business"
Christina Aguillera's "Stripped"
Mariah Carey's "Emancipation of Mimi"
Gwen Stefani's "Love, Angel, Music, Baby"
Robbie Wiliams's "Greatest Hits"
I mean, none of this artists are teenagers or are teen-sensations, as Vanessa Hudgens is or as Britney Spears used to be....
People buy albums from more mature artists that already proved they have a particular style.
So, I guess that's the reason why Rihanna's album is not selling like crazy (even though she's in her way to be a big star... specially after "Umbrella" and "Don't stop the music"... and releasing "Shut up and drive" as a single was the biggest mistake in her career, since it is a mild-warm song with some pretty dumb lyrics that actually takes away from her some credit that people could give to her after "Umbrella"...
). People still associate her to teen-pop... but, as I told you before, she will get bigger..
(oh... by the way, great move releasing "don't stop the music" in Europe and "Hate that I love you" in the U.S!!
'Cause "don't stop the music" has the potencial to be a great hit in Europe... but "I hate that I love you" don't! it would flop in Europe... )
What happened with AGuillera's latest album is simple: the album was not a flop but wasn't huge in sales. That's because Christina changed her style more into jazz/soul (becoming a lot far from pop) and that was a double-cd (double-expensive) album.