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Poll: Who Has The Bigger Name: Beyonce or Rihanna
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View Poll Results: Whose name is biggest?
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Originally posted by swissman
That's simply not true. Maybe Rihanna is bigger in fashion but not INFINITELY (even adjusting the exaggerated word down to HUGELY is untrue). Beyonce has been the darling to many fashion brands, spokeswoman, runway model etc too.
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Those things happened years ago. We're talking about NOW 
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Originally posted by pika
Are you saying GGGB sold 5-6 million?
Beyonce did not slay with 4.
All of Rihanna's albums peaked at #3-#1 and all except one sold 3m+ WW.
Rihanna currently gets more headlines, more searches, more single success, more album sucess, and is an infinitely bigger name in fashion than Bey. All you guys have is touring. |
Sis, I'd stretch it to 7 million, but I hope you aren't deluded enough to believe her label's inflated sales numbers that said it sold 9 million  .
The thing you guys have yet to realize is that 4 had no hits, but yet, sold almost as much as 70% of Rihanna's albums.  it just shows Beyonce can sell without a hit, which Rihanna has yet to prove(and the album was also R&B - while Rihanna makes pure pop music).
WW? Don't know what they ranked - and really don't care. Still mediocre sales for the 'Black Madonna'.
Did you not read my post properly? More than half of Beyonce's career is pre-digital era, which back then, artists relied on album sales, not single sales a platinum hit back then would be worth a 3x-4x platinum hit now, which Rihanna's best-selling single is only 4x plat, and Beyonce's is almost 2x plat(pre-digital era)
And headlines don't prove anything. It shows she's more popular - which is a given, but is ultimately irrelevant to the topic at hand, since controversy does not prove the strength of your superstar-dom. If that was the case, Chris Brown would be able to sell more than 500k copies.
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Rihanna obviously. She's known everywhere, her songs are all over the place. Meanwhile Beyoncé's only known in 1 place and her song is nowhere to be found.
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Originally posted by Ady.
I'm pretty sure the numbers are better than 4.
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But the proportion ain't
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The hottest name in the game but, her Vogue issue was the worst selling issue in the past six months and second-worst selling issue all year, hmmmmm.
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Originally posted by pika
Those things happened years ago. We're talking about NOW |
And they're still happening today.
And anyway, what does time have to do with anything? This thread is BIGGER not BIGGER NOW. So if you said who has a more iconic dress? Audrey Hepburn or Rihanna? The answer would be Audrey Hepburn. It doesn't matter that it happened so long ago. Bigger is bigger. More is more.
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Looks like common sense has taken over ATRL
Someone call a doctor
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Originally posted by Genocide
Sis, I'd stretch it to 7 million, but I hope you aren't deluded enough to believe her label's inflated sales numbers that said it sold 9 million .
The thing you guys have yet to realize is that 4 had no hits, but yet, sold almost as much as 70% of Rihanna's albums. it just shows Beyonce can sell without a hit, which Rihanna has yet to prove(and the album was also R&B - while Rihanna makes pure pop music).
WW? Don't know what they ranked - and really don't care. Still mediocre sales for the 'Black Madonna'.
Did you not read my post properly? More than half of Beyonce's career is pre-digital era, which back then, artists relied on album sales, not single sales a platinum hit back then would be worth a 3x-4x platinum hit now, which Rihanna's best-selling single is only 4x plat, and Beyonce's is almost 2x plat(pre-digital era)
And headlines don't prove anything. It shows she's more popular - which is a given, but is ultimately irrelevant to the topic at hand, since controversy does not prove the strength of your superstar-dom. If that was the case, Chris Brown would be able to sell more than 500k copies.
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Originally posted by Genocide
Sis, I'd stretch it to 7 million, but I hope you aren't deluded enough to believe her label's inflated sales numbers that said it sold 9 million .
The thing you guys have yet to realize is that 4 had no hits, but yet, sold almost as much as 70% of Rihanna's albums. it just shows Beyonce can sell without a hit, which Rihanna has yet to prove(and the album was also R&B - while Rihanna makes pure pop music).
WW? Don't know what they ranked - and really don't care. Still mediocre sales for the 'Black Madonna'.
Did you not read my post properly? More than half of Beyonce's career is pre-digital era, which back then, artists relied on album sales, not single sales a platinum hit back then would be worth a 3x-4x platinum hit now, which Rihanna's best-selling single is only 4x plat, and Beyonce's is almost 2x plat(pre-digital era)
And headlines don't prove anything. It shows she's more popular - which is a given, but is ultimately irrelevant to the topic at hand, since controversy does not prove the strength of your superstar-dom. If that was the case, Chris Brown would be able to sell more than 500k copies.
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It has already been proven that it crossed 8 million.
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The thing you guys have yet to realize is that 4 had no hits, but yet, sold almost as much as 70% of Rihanna's albums. it just shows Beyonce can sell without a hit, which Rihanna has yet to prove(and the album was also R&B - while Rihanna makes pure pop music).
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Are you even aware of the promo Beyonce did during 4? The amount of singles it got? The amount of videos it got? The amount of news coverage her pregnancy got? It did not sell just because it had Beyonce's name on it. There were other factors that helped. stop
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More than half of Beyonce's career is pre-digital era, which back then, artists relied on album sales, not single sales
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Rihanna's solo career debuted 2 years after Beyonce's and she's still a digital FORCE yet Beyonce isn't. Enough with the excuses.
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Rihanna's best-selling single is only 4x plat, and Beyonce's is almost 2x plat(pre-digital era)
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Always thinking locally. Typical Bey stan. WW Rihanna's singles crush Beyonce, and you know it. But if you want to focus on the US only, Rihanna can still get 3x platinum singles easily while Bey struggles to hit even platinum. 
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Originally posted by ianBK4
co-sign shades is the only thing you can do?
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Definitely not the one had last solo hit in 2009 
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Originally posted by pika
It has already been proven that it crossed 8 million.
Are you even aware of the promo Beyonce did during 4? The amount of singles it got? The amount of videos it got? The amount of news coverage her pregnancy got? It did not sell just because it had Beyonce's name on it. There were other factors that helped. stop
Rihanna's solo career debuted 2 years after Beyonce and she's a digital FORCE yet Beyonce isn't. Enough with the excuses.
Always thinking locally. Typical Bey stan. WW Rihanna's singles crush Beyonce, and you know it. But if you want to focus on the US only, Rihanna can still get 3x platinum singles easily while Bey struggles to hit even platinum. |
Run The World (Girls)=800,000 (GOLD)
Best Thing I Never Had=1,050,000 (PLATINUM)
Love On Top=1,004,684 (PLATINUM)
Countdown=500,000 (GOLD)
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Originally posted by QueenBeyoncé
The hottest name in the game but, her Vogue issue was the worst selling issue in the past six months and second-worst selling issue all year, hmmmmm.
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Originally posted by QueenBeyoncé
The hottest name in the game but, her Vogue issue was the worst selling issue in the past six months and second-worst selling issue all year, hmmmmm.
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Stop sis, just stop.
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Originally posted by pika
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You tried tho
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Originally posted by ianBK4
Run The World (Girls)=800,000 (GOLD)
Best Thing I Never Had=1,050,000 (PLATINUM)
Love On Top=1,004,684 (PLATINUM)
Countdown=500,000 (GOLD)
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while Bey struggles to hit even platinum
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The self drag. @ her BARELY going platinum with BTINH and LOT. :Lmao:
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Originally posted by pika
Are you even aware of the promo Beyonce did during 4? The amount of singles it got? The amount of videos it got? The amount of news coverage her pregnancy got? It did not sell just because it had Beyonce's name on it. There were other factors that helped. stop |
All this is true. I'm sure the pregnancy and promo got press for her and sales, but people don't buy things because someone got pregnant or just because they saw them on TV saying BUY MY ALBUM. They buy it because they want it. And the singles didn't do all that well, which goes to show that it's not the type of music the majority of people are wanting to consume. And yet her album sold very well given this fact.
And the same could be said for Rihanna. TTT had a HUGE hit single in a style that was super trendy, she had promo, she had a fourth quarter release, she had six singles (more than 4's) she had Chris Brown collaborations, she had everything. It wasn't just her name either that sold it.
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If 4 is a flop, then 4/7 of Rihanna's albums are flops as well.
So again, so what are Rihanna stans basing their claims on? It seems to only be on itunes and chart positions
While Beyonce stans focus on album sales, respect, acclaim, touring, influence and Rihanna stans get mad and say those things don't count lol
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Originally posted by swissman
And they're still happening today.
And anyway, what does time have to do with anything? This thread is BIGGER not BIGGER NOW. So if you said who has a more iconic dress? Audrey Hepburn or Rihanna? The answer would be Audrey Hepburn. It doesn't matter that it happened so long ago. Bigger is bigger. More is more.
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ok so let's take in all factors.
Rihanna has made more headlines in her career overall than Beyonce.
Rihanna has sold more singles overall than Beyonce.
Rihanna has sold more albums overall than Beyonce.
Rihanna is a bigger name in fashion than Beyonce.
Rihanna is more talked about than Beyonce.
Rihanna is bigger in social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Yahoo, you name it she's bigger) than Beyonce.
-Beyonce has a bigger touring gross than Rihanna.
-Beyonce has a bigger movie gross than Rihanna.
Rihanna is the bigger name.
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Originally posted by ianBK4
Run The World (Girls)=800,000 (GOLD)
Best Thing I Never Had=1,050,000 (PLATINUM)
Love On Top=1,004,684 (PLATINUM)
Countdown=500,000 (GOLD)
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You could be proud of these numbers if they were Keri Hilton's, not Beyonce's.
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