Rihanna ANTI is certified platinum
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exactly! I don't know why people think otherwise....you can't win without it
Meanwhile Adele sitting on 6 Million legit copies sold in just a few months
These artist gotta learn to not whore themselves out jumping on everything, releasing trash singles, tricking your core fan base into supporting that wack shyt. She shoulda never let Travis Scott near this album.
Not necessarily. Samsung is just open and upfront with it. The bigger labels do this all the time in secrecy to create or enhance buzz for the artists.
I like Adele fine but there's no way she's out here selling like it's'95 off the strength of that sad ass Hello. But we'll never really know because the label is able to hide it and a corporation can't.
Youth drives the music industry they always have. Unfortunately for artists, youth ain't paying for sht they pirate. So today relevancy is determined by other factors.
He didn't say it like that, but CHarlemagne said Cole was winning and Wale said he's signed to the label so the intention he gets is different. It was in his Breakfast Club interview. As for all this stuff about labels @nikkaz In Paris and I had a long discussion about that
Because Madonna and Britney could sing
.....& trying to get her own 25mill deal. People kill me with the "Beyonce is on a higher level " bullsht. She's been in this game since she was a preteen and she knows what time it is. She's (tried) to do what it takes to stay at the top of the heap: tried to go pop, tried raunchy, collabs with rappers you name it.
You realize websites and newspapers do this with damn near everything, right?
There are templates for every famous old geezer alive just waiting for them to kick the bucket. Templates for anticipated movies, books and albums. There's templates waiting on the final results of the Iowa caucus tonight. Smh..
I'm not a Beyonce fan and I like Rhianna. I'm interested in seeing how this play out, and I feel giving albums out for free makes sense and folks have been going for this model.
But let's call a spade a spade, artists are selling.
The low sales argument is a cop out because its mostly below average rappers like Future who are flopping and down south rappers who can't get people to buy the Jungle music they making.
J. Cole is selling. Kendrick Lamar is selling. If Lil Wayne ever drops, I guarantee you he does not flop.
I'm confused. What does 2005 have to do with right now? Rihanna's album is number 1 on iTunes in 50 countries, and she has not released an album in 4 years...why wouldn't she do at least 400k? More people heard her song with Drake than Adele's Hello on it's first day. I This is different than when she was dropping back to back to back. The 400k has nothing to do with the other million. If Jay Z sold 500k first week after doing what he did, why wouldn't Rihanna after a 4 year hiatus? Justin Beiber just had a monster first week, one larger than he had ever had before after a 3 year hiatus and is sitting at something like 3.3 million sold worldwide. Why would Rihanna who is a bigger star than him not do the same? Please explain. The 400k has nothing to do with Tidal, fam, just say you don't follow the charts and be honest breh
Rihanna "Anti" sells 460 copies (not including the fake platinum) Full week estimated at 120k
120k =/= 400k
You should've just dapped me instead of typing all this out breh.
Fred.
Craig Mack
New Album in January
You confuse popularity with selling. Yes people snap up J.Cole, Lil Wayne ect when they put out product but they are not buying. They're streaming, which nets the artists a couple of pennies per song when they're not out and out pirating.
Why was Chris Brown on twitter begging people to buy his new cd? Why was Minaj bytching about her money all last year?
Those at the top of the food chain are getting paid. Everybody else is struggling.
mbewane
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Might as well take into account all the people who downloaded once the link was made public then 
never listened to a Rihanna album and even I downloaded it 
never listened to a Rihanna album and even I downloaded it Idk. Ora is technically a better singer than Rihanna. The thing with Rihanna is that she had hits straight out of the gate. Plus she was able to swerve into fashion big-time. A lot of people think that's insignificant but the fashion industry is as big and just as visible as the music industry. The couture fashion houses, the fashion mags..they love her. Rita is more famous for who she hangs out with.
Plus...Rihanna has the IT factor she just does.
You make it sound like RocNation did this cause Rihanna is some failing artist on her last legs.
They don't have to cook the books with her because she's a proven seller with a track record. She's never had a flop album. Never had an album with no hits.
Rihanna did this because she wanted to get paid the maximum, up front. There's only a handful of artists with enough juice to pull this off; Beyonce, Swift, Adele, Beiber and maybe Drake.
