If Rihanna was promoting everywhere like Gaga was in the ARTPOP era and was still flopping (even though she only has one flop this era), then maybe I'd agree with you. Gaga failed because she couldn't live up to the hype that she built for herself. Rihanna hasn't made that mistake. She's doing what Gaga SHOULD have done when it mattered, which is keep her mouth shut until she's ready.
You make it sound as if Rihanna is making these decisions herself
Britney's touring numbers have always been so underwhelming for such a huge artist.
Everyone has been a touring force in their own regard (Gaga, Bey, Taylor, even Katy now). Even the California Dreams tour was bigger than like three of her tours. Why?
Rih ain't doing promo because she's broke + her label is not gonna waste any more money. They already pay for the island-sized writing camps (which makes it even more embarrassing that her music is sooo crappy now), they're done paying for promo. The cons of being poor. She should do a fundraiser like TLC recently did.
You make it sound as if Rihanna is making these decisions herself
If she really was a puppet they would've made her release the album regardless. The fact remains gaga is a pathetic flop who peaked in her first era and will never be a successful pop artist again
Ticket price inflation is measuring an increase in the $$$, not the amount of tickets sold. We don't have data for how much albums grossed so we can't make that comparison.
It would be like adjusting films for market share, and assuming that the #1 film in 2014 should have an equal market share to the #1 film in, say, 1952 when literally 2/3 of the States would go to the movies every weekend, and saying that "in 1952 Avatar would have actually had 250 million people watching it". It makes no sense, whereas ticket prices are at least something measurable.
We do have global album sales data? And you've got it backwards, since the point is not to assume the same market share but to use market share as a constant/consistent measure that allows for direct comparison across a variety of market environments over the years. It's about the closest thing to a 1:1 comparison that I can think (no system will ever be perfect).
Music = 14 million
GHV2 = 7 million~
Confessions = 12 million
Hard Candy = 4 million
MDNA = 1.8 million
Repel Charts =
+ her millions of catalog sales. She outdid Britfart.
*sigh*
Unless she sold 51 million albums in catalog sales (in which case absolutely any argument to her irrelevance dissapears) she did not. But great for you finally admitting the 4 million for Hard Candy and 2 million for MDNA. Progress
