Rihanna is utterly talentless (her albums are made for her based on chart trends and she never even meets the writers & producers lol) and let's hope the Maleficent trailer is better than that fan made looking poster.
Rihanna can give a good performance from time to time. ScarJo can be a good actress from time to time. I'd say they are equally talented; however, Rih has achieved more. ScarJo is still B-list.
ARTBOP is #1 on Amazon(Physically & Digitally) and on iTunes and i saw a lot of Monsters on twitter getting several copies from the stores but let me not Jinx it
After Applause opened with Ariana Grande numbers (though I'm starting to think her label bought some copies because Baby I was kind of a disastrous flop), anything is possible so yes, please don't jinx it.