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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
Actually Gaga only dominates with tours. Loud sold more this year in the UK then BTW. Both UK and US single sales for Loud **** on that of Born This Way. She only reigns with tours.
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BTW has sold like 500K more in the US than Loud. WW both Loud + BTW are about equal (Loud did better in the UK but BTW did better in markets like Japan).
Rihanna has the most popular music in the world right now, no question about it. But she's selling
because of that.
She followed up her smash GGGB era with RR, and despite the heat of the GGGB era, she stumbled in album sales, singles sales, tours, everything. The album still had radio smashes like Rude Boy and fun songs like Hard.
BTW is a messy as **** era: the music, the videos, the artwork, her look, everything is ****ed in a way that RR wasn't... but it's sold about as much in less time as Rihanna's smash colorful Loud era.
So while Gaga is definitely down, if she pulls a Rihanna, slaps on the hairbow and hires the writing camp, she will smoke her again.