Considering critical reception - yes, but chartwise, hmm...
You have to remember that after RR many huge things happened and Rihanna is now 300% bigger than she was then...
and you have to remember "4" was her first underperforming album in 15 years and that's only a result of bad management and lack of commercial appeal ... So it hardly shows any signs of her "future".
And it's well known that when Beyonce commercializes her music, she gets hits. And when she gets hits, she sells much more albums.
Slay!
