[Fruity]

Originally posted by Duca

Featured singles count as well, just as they count as her #1’s.

It's 28 without collaborations. 29 actually, since ‘Talk That Talk’ was announced as the third single this week.

They count as singles, yes, but they are not included in the 47 million, so no.

Wait Your Turn was a promo single.
Te Amo was not released in the US.
Raining Men is debatable, but fine.

That makes 26.

[Venus]

I love how they desperately try to shade her in the end, when less than half of the list Rihanna has collaborated with, and only two of those collaborations have been for her. Even then, one was a bonus track and the other was a single.

[UAE]

Originally posted by Melancholic

36 singles? In six years? That's crazy! She needs a break but she know that the public will forget about her. No wonder she releases material so fast, she doesn't even write her own songs, hehehe.

*giggles* She Co-wrote We Found Love

[BadBitch]

Originally posted by Nicole

I don't think there's anything wrong with this strategy. It's working great for her.

The only foreseeable problem is that it turns her into a "singles artist." And by that I don't mean she can't sell albums (she can), but that it makes her wholly dependent on having hot new hit singles.

The day Rihanna struggles with her singles the way Beyonce did with 4, she's going to have a serious problem putting up sales like 4.

You can't compare the two. Beyonce was in a very successful Girl Group prior to her successful solo career. Beyonce is 15 years in the game & a veteran. Rihanna is 6. That's almost 3 times longer than her. As far as being a single artist and putting out "hot" singles. The same came be said for almost every artist/Popstar. B-Day was under-performing until Irreplaceable became a huge hit than the album sky rocketed. It also could go the other way around. Look at J-LO, she had a huge hit and her album still flopped. To say that it only boils down to "hits" is bit narrow thinking. It's more complicated than that. The general public has to be interested in you as a person or star.

[Shapes]

Originally posted by clairebear23

Interesting We have to analyze her next performance as she wont be able to work with Dr. Luke anymore

Katy will obviously hit massively with her next single off of her third album, regardless of who produces it (although Dr. Luke would give her a huge advantage).

The point is, Rihanna's average is the lowest amongst the pop girls, save for Britney (and that's only because a large amount of Britney's catalogue comes from before the digital era, unlike Rihanna's).

[Peep Show]

Originally posted by infinite-desire

So constantly releasing music is a bad thing now? How sad.

Right? If it was their fave they'd be all over it

[clairebear23]

Originally posted by Fruity

They count as singles, yes, but they are not included in the 47 million, so no.

Wait Your Turn was a promo single.
Te Amo was not released in the US.
Raining Men is debatable, but fine.

That makes 26.

And that's just the way it is Most of the time RIhanna releases singles without promo as of late

[Peep Show]

Originally posted by BadBitch

You can't compare the two. Beyonce was in a very successful Girl Group prior to her successful solo career. Beyonce is 15 years in the game & a veteran. Rihanna is 6. That's almost 3 times longer than her. As far as being a single artist and putting out "hot" singles. The same came be said for almost every artist/Popstar. B-Day was under-performing until Irreplacebale became a huge hit than the album sky rocketed. It also could go the other way around. Look at J-LO, she had a huge hit and her album still flop. To say that it only boils down to "hits" is kinda naive. It's more complicated than that. The general public has to be interested in you as a person or star.

All of this

[DG1]

Beyonce and Britney that high without so many singles and at the height of their careers it wasn't the digital period

[UAE]

Originally posted by BadBitch

You can't compare the two. Beyonce was in a very successful Girl Group prior to her successful solo career. Beyonce is 15 years in the game & a veteran. Rihanna is 6. That's almost 3 times longer than her. As far as being a single artist and putting out "hot" singles. The same came be said for almost every artist/Popstar. B-Day was under-performing until Irreplacebale became a huge hit than the album sky rocketed. It also could go the other way around. Look at J-LO, she had a huge hit and her album still flop. To say that it only boils down to "hits" is kinda naive. It's more complicated than that. The general public has to be interested in you as a person or star.

Lool But Beyonce has 4 Albums and much less singles + she came prior to the "Digital Era"

You cant Compare the two

[vengabeat]

Uh, how is it shade when it's truth?

Gaga's got, what, ten singles and she's #4?

[jeremyyy]

[Shapes]

Originally posted by vengabeat

Uh, how is it shade when it's truth?

Gaga's got, what, ten singles and she's #4?

14 if you include Hair and Speechless, which sold decently digitally.

[clairebear23]

Originally posted by DG1

Beyonce and Britney that high without so many singles and at the height of their careers it wasn't the digital period

Sweetie, then we'll have to take out Rihanna's first 2 albums...The height of the digital era came in 2008 , where singles were selling 4x platinum

[Duca]

Originally posted by Fruity

They count as singles, yes, but they are not included in the 47 million, so no.

Wait Your Turn was a promo single.
Te Amo was not released in the US.
Raining Men is debatable, but fine.

That makes 26.

Check out posts by your fellow stan and chart expert zzmyth in the Rihanna receipts thread and you'll see that they are.

I will give you 'Wait Your Turn,' however with 'Talk That Talk,' it's 36. 'Te Amo' was still a single, and so was 'Raining Men.'

[aloirt]

Originally posted by UAE

*giggles* She Co-wrote We Found Love

Not the best example...

[MiguelPortugal]

Originally posted by Duca

Featured singles count as well, just as they count as her #1’s.

1. Pon De Replay
2. If It's Lovin' That You Want
3. SOS
4. Unfaithful
5. We Ride
6. Break It Off (feat. Sean Paul)
7. Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z)
8. Shut Up And Drive
9. Don't Stop The Music
10. Hate That I Love You (feat. Ne-Yo)
11. Take A Bow
12. If I Never See Your Face Again (with Maroon 5)
13. Disturbia
14. Rehab
15. Live Your Life (with T.I.)
16. Run This Town (with Jay-Z and Kanye West)
17. Wait Your Turn
18. Russian Roulette
19. Hard
20. Rude Boy
21. Rockstar 101
22. Te Amo
23. Love The Way You Lie (with Eminem)
24. Who's That Chick? (with David Guetta)
25. Only Girl (In The World)
26. What's My Name? (feat. Drake)
27. Raining Men (feat. Nicki Minaj)
28. S&M (feat. Britney Spears)
29. All Of The Lights (with Kanye West)
30. California King Bed
31. Man Down
32. Cheers (Drink To That)
33. Fly (with Nicki Minaj)
34. We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
35. You Da One
36. Take Care (with Drake)
37. Talk That Talk (feat. Jay-Z) [TBR]

It's 28 without collaborations. 29 actually, since ‘Talk That Talk’ was announced as the third single this week.

6 years and all this?! I never thought about it like that. It's scary. :scary:

[clairebear23]

The fact of the matter is that Rihanna's digital power still rings true. And that's just the way it is...I loves it

I mean she continues to release albums and singles and they become multi-million sellers. Ill take that

[rihannafan]

Originally posted by vengabeat

Uh, how is it shade when it's truth?

Gaga's got, what, ten singles and she's #4?

it's the truth ? Rihanna has released 50 million singles ?

[Peep Show]

Originally posted by Duca

Check out posts by your fellow stan and chart expert zzmyth in the Rihanna receipts thread and you'll see that they are.

I will give you 'Wait Your Turn,' however with 'Talk That Talk,' it's 36. 'Te Amo' was still a single, and so was 'Raining Men.'

No Te Amo was the european single and Raining Men was only an urban single without a video.