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Chart Listings: Rihanna hits 8.4 million album sales in the US.
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Originally posted by jqnetto
At least Kelly writes her own songs.
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so does Rihanna
Kelly doesn't even write all of her songs tho she didn't even write Stronger or Dark Side
her biggest hits aren't even written by her
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The Rihanna shade
It isnt bad really.
That means her international sales are somewhere near 15 million, right?
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Originally posted by Katamari
Kelly doesn't even have critically acclaimed albums. She should just hush
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Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Metascore: 70
I think you should be the one to hush now. And what does critical acclaim have annything to do with album sales ?
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Its Only US album sales,
You all think its her overall WW sales
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Dumbass if you are going to complain about that, you'd know its just as idiotic comparing a non-digital generation to one. BESIDES that Britney is at 30,000,000 digital singles, Rihanna 47m(?). Then let's subtract the collabs.
And WHEN did Rihanna outgross Brit's tours? Circus and FF alone are $200m combined.
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She sold 47M in the US excluding her collabs (According to Billboard) and that was last year the #'s is probably at 50M right now
Btw FF :67M
Loud Tour: 90m
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Originally posted by gettsleazy
As you can see, when Worldwide comes into play, Rihanna fares very successfully.
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Considering all sold nearly as much as her in a shorter amount of time, not so much.
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Originally posted by MrBillyBrhtd
She releases albums every year and she manages to sell at least 1 mill (besides her debut album).
5 PLATINUM ALBUMS!!!!
Tell me about 1 global artist who does the same on the digital singles era.
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She does quite well on album sales for a "singles artist", no one can deny that.
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Originally posted by RatedG²
I'm pretty sure Rihanna has like over 110M singles WW...at least that's what zzmyth said
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He's using points and thinks actual sales would be higher than the songs points, so...
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Originally posted by Duca
'If It's Lovin' That You Want' flops > new album
'We Ride' bombs > new album
'Rehab' underperforms > new album
'Rockstar 101' bombs/'Te Amo' flops > new album
'California King Bed' underperforms/'Man Down' bombs > new album
She released 5 singles this era, out of which only 2 became hits, and it was reported just this week she had already recorded songs with Ne-Yo, Guetta, and Stargate for the new album.
Her label isn't dumb.
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A mess.
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Originally posted by b3dro
The Rihanna shade
It isnt bad really.
That means her international sales are somewhere near 15 million, right?
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Over 20 million actually. The numbers are disputed so I won't put an exact figure here.
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Well...DAMN!
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Originally posted by gettsleazy
For comparison...
Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide since the beginning of her career in 2005, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time.[7] (6 Studio Albums [ No EP])
She (Lady Gaga) has sold an estimated 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time and her singles are some of the best selling worldwide.[1] (2 Studio Albums and 1 EP [spawning 3 massive hits])
She (Katy Perry) has sold 37.6 million digital tracks in the United States and 11 million albums worldwide,[5] and sold over 74.6 million digital tracks worldwide.[6] (2 Studio albums [No EP])
Adele has sold roughly 30 Million albums Worldwide, and an educated guess would give her between 15-20 Million singles sold WW (2 Albums)
As you can see, when Worldwide comes into play, Rihanna fares very successfully.
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Katy has sold 9 million albums worldwide at most.
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Originally posted by cuitrex
Its Only US album sales,
You all think its her overall WW sales
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Rihanna hits 8.4 million album sales in the US.
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I mean what the **** else would it be?
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Originally posted by RatedG²
I'm pretty sure Rihanna has like over 110M singles WW...at least that's what zzmyth said
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When a reliable source says the same, Wikipedia will accept it. Same for Gaga - she's well over 80 million singles but no reliable source has bothered to mention it, therefore Wikipedia will not yet accept it as fact.
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Originally posted by Katamari
so does Rihanna
Kelly doesn't even write all of her songs tho she didn't even write Stronger or Dark Side
her biggest hits aren't even written by her
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Rihanna isn't the first songwriter in none of her hit songs.
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Originally posted by Allstar
He's using points and thinks actual sales would be higher than the songs points, so...
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Originally posted by cuitrex
Its Only US album sales,
You all think its her overall WW sales
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But she has 11 #1 singles there. And she got a huge amount of radio airplay. It's a low number for album sales, you can't deny it.
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Originally posted by jqnetto
Exaclty, she sells little everywhere, not only in the United States.
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Clearly you know little about Rihanna's sales so leave with your snarky comments that you seem to think are clever.
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Originally posted by Rated R
We all know that Rihanna is more of a Global popstar than local
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That makes it even worse. Gaga who came after her is outselling her. Adele with one album is almost at half of Rihanna's sales. I'm not even gonna add the other girls like Britney and Beyonce.
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Originally posted by RatedG²
I'm pretty sure Rihanna has like over 110M singles WW...at least that's what zzmyth said
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In what world?
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