*When Rihanna tries to avoid flopping by getting a giant corporation to buy 1M downloads of her album so that she can get a Platinum certification to mask the fact that era has been handled terrible and is unlikely to sell 1M copies in pure sales.
ARTPOP had an actually healthy pre-album rollout, it wasn't given away for free and was released in a slightly better climate for album sales. I don't think it's a very fair comparison
*When Rihanna tries to avoid flopping by getting a giant corporation to buy 1M downloads of her album so that she can get a Platinum certification.
Yes but look at her not having meltdowns.
Edit: Why y'all still using the pure sales argument. It's 2016, get with the future, sales are dead.
But I guess it's hard to get with the future when Gaga is a NONFACTOR on streaming, while Rihanna is.
And let's see how that's going to look in 2016 when Gaga releases, when she can't fall neither on PURE sales or streaming.
idrc about this malicious thread but I just want to point out that:
4lop/4closure/Beyonic and RTW are getting justice 5 years later. Who saw that coming?
After this place swore she was over and done for. Now it's the album/era to beat
And probably because Gaga and Bey have higher standards and even though performed better and I would consider it just an underperformance rather than a flop like ANTI should be labelled. It's telling there aren't as many threads dragging Rihanna as there are Bey and Gaga of they "underperform". Nobody is checking for Anti besides Work (and no shade, because I actually like Rihanna and LOVE work).
That's really stupid considering ANTI's rollout began as normal, she just prolonged everything to re-record in a desperate attempt for a hit. Gaga or Bey WOULDN'T DO THAT to begin with, so maybe THAT'S what makes them different.
ARTPOP SOLD, not streamed, 600K+ WW in its first week with a huge backlash and the entire media against her.
i don't remember much backlash, actually :|
also, i don't think we can fairly call any album that's only been out for a couple weeks a flop. there are a still a lot of things that could happen. and 4 wasn't a flop anyway, it sold over 1m in the US. artpop wasn't a massive success but i wouldn't really call it a flop either.
Again, you fail to put forward an argument. I'm waiting!
ANTI isn't a flop. Neither is ARTPOP or 4. I can realise this since I am not a blind stan but if you're considering ARTPOP a flop and ANTI is less successful than ARTPOP... it must be a flop as well in your eyes.