Why wait when Katy already has her foot on Rihanna's neck?
Rihanna used to be known for her hits, but Katy quickly replaced her after the Teenage Dream era, only cementing her status with Roar and Dark Horse.
But if you want to compare album sales, then compare the first 3 releases, not 7 x 3, that's just not fair.
First three albums:
Katy: 14M
Rihanna: 10M
Rihanna's first three albums sold 13.1 million compared to Katy's 13.2 million even though Katy was supposedly huge off the bat and Rihanna didn't become a main girl until her 3rd album
A gospel album recorded under a different name released by an independent label that went under after a few months in 2001. It's ridiculous to count that as one of her albums.
Yes it does.
if it sold 20 million instead of 200 you'd be singing to a different tune.
No, definitely not. And I don't think it's fair to say that R8 is underperforming just yet. At any moment she could drop a smash and it could turn the era around. It's had a messy start but no-one even knows what's happening... let's wait and see. Rih's star is still a thousand times bigger than the other's.
Rihanna's first three albums sold 13.1 million compared to Katy's 13.2 million even though Katy was supposedly huge off the bat and Rihanna didn't become a main girl until her 3rd album
Can you stop lying for once please
You just proved what I was saying.
Bigger album sales and bigger hitmaker right from the start.
Should compare their albums based on the year they were release if you don't want an average because Rih's first 3 album could not catch up with Katy's first 3...
OOTB (2008) vs. Rated R (2009)
TD (2010) vs. LOUD (2010)
PRISM (2013) vs. UNA (2012)
Now compare their total sales and let's see who's the album seller. I don't have the reciepts tho.
This has got to be a lie. Didn't Teenage Dream sell 60M singles by itself?
I'm using the numbers from their receipts thread although Katy's seem just a biT outdated so maybe she's actually around 95-100m singles. Take it up with the kats Timber