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Originally posted by Disco
For a lead single, We Found Love didn't shoot straight to #1 as some people expected. It stayed in the top ten for a while. I remember people were calling it a flop, until the video was released.
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THE NAVY didn't hate wfl and never called it a flop.
No one expected wfl to shoot straight to #1.
Non of Rihanna's lead singles did that.
The last single (cheers) from her previous album (loud) was released 1 month before wfl. When wfl was released, cheers was top 10 on itunes/hot 100. No anticipation, no announcement 3-4 MONTHS ago for a new single from a new album.
It's not that fans don't like RN. We just didn't like that song
to be a single. There's a big difference. We want that different sound for this era not to be be "ruined" by a generic dance song. It's more than obvious that we will be happy if the song does well on charts.