Yikes at you resorting to 2010 receipts considering Rihanna isn't winning anything over even Gaga's weakest performing era this year so far. The backfire in your own thread, when Telephone was much more global, did completely outshine it thanks to the music video and eventually outsold Rude Boy in US despite it peaking #3. What does that say? #1 in US means nothing. Thriller didn't. Toxic didn't. Hung Up didn't. Bad Romance didn't. Yet, it didn't stop them from overshadowing every #1 in the year of their releases and eventually go onto outsell them #1s in the long run.