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Stats: Rihanna is the best-selling digital artist of all time!
Member Since: 10/7/2011
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Originally posted by satellites™
Girl, The Fame+Monster sold about 16 million together, split that how you want, but that is the total.
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I don't have the receipts to tell you otherwise, that 's just what I've been told.
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Originally posted by Hustle.
Features aren't included.
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Even more impressive!
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Member Since: 4/6/2010
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Originally posted by Hustle.
Features aren't included.
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Oop!
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Member Since: 10/7/2011
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Originally posted by BPD
Guuuuuuurl!
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What? It's the truth.
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Rihanna would be at around 63 million with collabs. Incredible!
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Member Since: 6/7/2011
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Originally posted by MiguelPortugal
Really? No wonder why... She released 6 albums in 7 years. And even in 2008 she re-released Good Girl Gone Bad. That's why she has sold 25 million albums - because she just doesn't stop releasing new material. Selling 25 million copies isn't that big deal when you have released 6 studio albums.
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Call me when a singles artist sells 6 million WW without a re-release.
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
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at the mess.
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Member Since: 3/27/2011
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Originally posted by Hustle.
Features aren't included.
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Wow
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by RîhMark
Rihanna would be at around 63 million with collabs. Incredible!
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I think Lil Wayne would be the top artist with features included.
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Originally posted by KoreanDream
I acknowledge that she has the six albums on her side, but you have to remember that just because you have six albums doesn't automatically mean you're going to have huge digital sales. It's an advantage, yes, but regardless of how many albums or singles, 47 million is always impressive. Especially when it places her as the best selling digital artist of all time in the United States, at age 23.
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Granted. But she has released more material in the digital era than anybody else on the list so I mean... What else was supposed to happen? Who else would be the best selling digital artist?
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Member Since: 12/25/2010
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Originally posted by satellites™
Girl, The Fame+Monster sold about 16 million together, split that how you want, but that is the total.
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Okay sis. With that we add 5,4 from BTW to get ~22m and then there's the TFM EP which sold 1,5m only in the U.S. I can see 23 million.
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Member Since: 9/13/2009
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All that with rush released singles. Unlike her peers, although she has released more singles but only a few were given the privilege to smash to their full potential. Her digital sales could have been bigger had her label waited for each single to blossom to its fullest. I believe she could have easily scored 3x and 4x platinum singles. On top of that, some of them barely received any promotion.
Who else but the Queen and that's without her total from her massive features
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
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Originally posted by KoreanDream
Call me when a singles artist sells 6 million WW without a re-release.
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she is still a singles artist whether you admit it or not.
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Member Since: 5/21/2009
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It would be interesting to see an average sales per single for Katy and Rihanna.
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Member Since: 12/6/2010
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Top 10 Selling Digital Artists of All Time:
1. Rihanna – 47,571,000
2. Black Eyed Peas – 42,405,000
3. Eminem – 42,290,000
4. Lady Gaga – 42,078,000
5. Taylor Swift – 41,821,000
6. Katy Perry – 37,620,00
7. Lil Wayne – 36,788,000
8. Beyonce – 30,439,000
9. Kanye West – 30,242,000
10. Britney Spears – 28,665,000
Top 10 Digital Artists of SoundScan Era (2010 Report)
1. Taylor Swift, 34.3
2. Black Eyed Peas, 33.8
3. Rihanna, 33.7
4. Eminem, 33.3
5. Lady Gaga, 29.3
6. Kanye West, 25.3
7. Beyoncé, 25.1
8. Nickelback, 23.9
9. Michael Jackson, 23.2
10. Katy Perry, 22.6
Please i would like to know how Lady Gaga sold 12,778,00 in 2011, how Beyonce sold 5,338,000 in 2011
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Member Since: 5/27/2010
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Originally posted by satellites™
What's the 6 million and what's the 12 million? Cause I know damn well The Fame didn't sell 12 million without the Monster added on to it.
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20470317,00.html
She was at 16.5m albums in February (14m for TF(M), 1.5m for TFM standalone EP, 1m for The Remix).
She's sold an additional 1.1m copies of TF(M) since then (according to Mediatraffic) and 5.5m of BTW, which brings it to about 23m.
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Amazing.
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Originally posted by coolcristobal
I thought it was Lady Gaga who was the most downloaded artist of all time?? X-Factor lied to me!!!!
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Worldwide she is she has over 70 millions digital singles.
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Member Since: 9/18/2011
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Originally posted by Harry
All that with rush released singles. Unlike her peers, although she has released more singles but only a few were given the privilege to smash to their full potential. Her digital sales could have been bigger had her label waited for each single to blossom to its fullest. I believe she could have easily scored 3x and 4x platinum singles. On top of that, some of them barely received any promotion.
Who else but the Queen and that's without her total from her massive features
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Preach
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Member Since: 10/13/2008
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Quote:
Originally posted by satellites™
I think Lil Wayne would be the top artist with features included.
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It would be really close! Im interested to see!
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