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Chart Listings: Rihanna hits 8.4 million album sales in the US.
Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by The Best One Yet
Only including Studio Albums:
Gaga's Average 2.7
Katy's Average 1.9
Rihanna's Average 1.4
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Extremely impressive for Gaga and Katy. Sorta impressive for Rihanna
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Member Since: 12/23/2010
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I think that number is impressive in this day and age. Those sales just for the US are healthy, considering piracy, leaks, etc...and Rihanna has sold over 55+ million singles in America alone, (solo) not counting collaborations...so hate but she's still gonna keep selling.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Mr.Marvelous
1.4 M per album isn't even that bad.
The US makes less than 1/3 of her WW sales.
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The US is the largest music market. And make around 30-35%. Japan in about 19% the other countries barely touch 10%. So it is a big deal.
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Member Since: 11/6/2010
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Why are Kelly stans in here trying it though?
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Originally posted by Rhythm
"Global, global, global..."
Are Rihanna's international numbers even that great?
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They're okay.
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Member Since: 11/17/2011
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Originally posted by jqnetto
Kelly is a local artist!?
Breakaway sold more than any Rihanna's album, so shut up.
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And this is the end of her global career!
Deal with it!
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OMG, this must be the WORST day ever for her stans! Seriously just RUINED Summer for every Rihanna stan!
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Originally posted by Rhythm
"Global, global, global..."
Are Rihanna's international numbers even that great?
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They're decent. She's sold 16 million outside the US, out of which well over 6 million come from the UK.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by Tra.cëë
I think that number is impressive in this day and age. Those sales just for the US are healthy, considering piracy, leaks, etc...and Rihanna has sold over 55+ million singles in America alone, (solo) not counting collaborations...so hate but she's still gonna keep selling.
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OK so if she sold 60M singles WW you're telling me she only sold 5 million singles outside the US? Something isn't adding up
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And, of course, ATRL is interested in everything Rihanna does.
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Originally posted by Duca
'Break It Off' was released just to keep her name out there, it didn't even get a video, and it failed to chart outside the US.
‘Rehab’ peaked in the top 20 on January 3, 2009, and left the top 40 long before the incident occurred.
‘Rockstar 101’ was sent to radio in the States (she even performed it on American Idol!) and Australia, while ‘Te Amo’ was released elsewhere.
‘Cheers’ wasn’t going to #1 and again, it was released just to keep her out there, it got a live video, for God’s sake.
She performed both ‘Talk That Talk’ and ‘Birthday Cake’ on SNL (pretty high-profile promo.)
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duca im not here for your lies at all, but its cute how you think, im sure you picked up your copy of loud, ttt, mots, aglm, and gggb.
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Member Since: 12/23/2010
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As for this WW talk. The points that are used that ZZMYTH has calculated are estimates. The closests WE have to actual sales and figures. Also her own label and management recognizes Rihanna as having over 120 million singles + albums sold worldwide. Look at several promos for her including X Factor preview videos. So it can't be that far fetched.
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Originally posted by KevinKDC
But Kelly did write some of her biggest hits, including her biggest worldwide hit:
Miss Independent
Behind These Hazel Eyes
Because Of You
Already Gone
And not to mention Kelly wrote a entire album herself and she isn't dependent of the same producer giver her hit songs
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welp
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Deadddddddddddddddd how did a thread like this become a hit? Akiajahah people just love Rihanna
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Originally posted by Tra.cëë
I think that number is impressive in this day and age. Those sales just for the US are healthy, considering piracy, leaks, etc...and Rihanna has sold over 55+ million singles in America alone, (solo) not counting collaborations...so hate but she's still gonna keep selling.
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!!!!!! I definitely agree with your point about piracy, and while we're on that point, Loud was the most illegally downloaded album of 2010 (and it was released a month and change prior to the end of the year). Not saying that's an excuse but imagine the pop girls' sales if piracy didn't exist.
We should make a thread about that...
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Kelly stans trying it. Holy...
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Originally posted by Duca
They're decent. She's sold 16 million outside the US, out of which well over 6 million come from the UK.
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Rihanna with 6 albums has sold 24,100,000 and Beyonce with 4 has sold 24,500,000.
Outside of US/UK, Rihanna total: 9,763,015
Outside of US/UK, Beyonce Total: 8,750,000
Average per album Outside of UK/US:
Beyonce: 2,187,500
Rihanna: 1,627,169
I don't get this global nonsense. She's just as supposedly "local" as Beyonce.
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Originally posted by KevinKDC
And don't fool yourself. Rated R is only rated that high because of the Chris Brown incident. Don't fool yourself.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by Tra.cëë
As for this WW talk. The points that are used that ZZMYTH has calculated are estimates. The closests WE have to actual sales and figures. Also her own label and management recognizes Rihanna as having over 120 million singles + albums sold worldwide. Look at several promos for her including X Factor preview videos. So it can't be that far fetched.
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I'm not sure who to believe now. I doubt that Rihanna sold 120M singles + albums because that'll be close to 90M+ singles WW
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yall imma leave b4 it gets messier, i dont care about album sales i stan for good music, and for the past 7 years thats what robyn has been serving.
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