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Originally posted by Fanik
what the ****?
So shes a weak digital seller?
She is still the biggest digital seller in the US.
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She's the biggest digital single seller, but that's mostly because the digital market was new and there was no precedent for what a successful single seller looked like. Now that Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are picking up steam, she looks likely to lose her title unless she keeps releasing 6-7 singles per year.
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Originally posted by T.C
Chart success?
Rihanna, BOMT is bigger than all of her singles but overall she has the good lead here
Public Image?
Neither are respected but Rihanna was never mocked as much as Brit in 2007 so her
Cutural Impact?
Britney as of right now, but Rihanna will surpass her soon
Tours?
Rihanna's DWT has grossed more than any Britney tour
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Rihanna's major chart success is in radio play. That's not nearly enough to make up for Britney's sales.
Rihanna's not even half as known as Britney is, lbr. Other than the Chris Brown incident, she's never had a really big moment in pop culture.
Rihanna has very, very little impact. She's been made fun of her whole career for having a weak sales-to-airplay ratio, weak album sales and her lack of impact. You're literally praising her for everything she's really, really bad at.
When TCSBS is weighted to 2014's inflation, it's actually $3M above the DWT's total gross. Granted it had one more show, but since Rih was averaging $1,459,565.13 per show, it's safe to say she wouldn't have outgrossed TCSBS even if she had the same number of dates. So actually, Britney's tour is bigger than Rih's
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Originally posted by !Blue!
Britney.
But i can see Rihanna getting past her if she is able to stay relevant
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How?
Let's look at their TEAs in the U.S. to get an idea of how they would compare if digital single sales were album sales:
Rihanna
Albums Sold - 10,200,000 albums sold
Single Sales - 80,000,000 digital tracks sold - 8,000,000 albums sold
Total: 18,200,000 albums sold
Britney Spears
Albums Sold - 36,145,000 (32,747,000 Nielsen Soundscan) albums sold
Single Sales - 40,000,000 digital tracks sold - 4,000,000 albums sold
Total: 40,145,000 albums sold
Rihanna's career is huge, but she is clearly not competition for Britney. Britney's a bigger seller WW, so it's safe to assume that even if Rihanna was able to pull the exact same level of success for her next 7 albums (which seems very, very unlikely), she'd only just be getting close to Britney's
current status.