Rihanna ANTI is certified platinum

[Deutsche Bank]

So this whole "artist cheating" shyt is not true because most are not big enough to have it work. Unless you think local businesses are about to start copping 20,000 copies of Lil Fofo's album so it can be labeled the "sponsored by Big Rod's Auto Parts." I doubt that.

 

[Kings County]

Don't care

 

[Paper Boi]

werent the coli industry experts claiming she was being sabotaged though?

 

[Edub]

You guys keep laughing but urban music (albums that is) isn't selling. If this trend sustains itself I expect most artists to do exactly what JD & Memphis Bleak said on the Bclub

Drop mixtapes and singles and forget releasing retail albums.

- We saw this coming in the ringtone era.

- We saw it coming before that with the fascination/fixation of artists an R&B/POP type singles just to get fans to buy their album

Now albums only sell when you're one of the few acts who still have the machine (Nicki, Kendrick, J.Cole, Drake, Wayne) behind them or you bend over backwards with gimmicks and drama to generate interest around a project.

Keep laughing as Hip Hop is devolving

Rhianna ain't hip hop

 

[Jimi Swagger]

So she basically went Platinum by way of Fagna Farta Holy Fail with Samsung giving away free copies to subscribers.

That ain't real platinum imo.

Fixed. Just had to, someone called the album that in a previous post.

 

[Jahbarri]

My Bajan queen.

she mines bruh bruh











back off

 

[director_of_bands]

The sorcery ...

Spooky

Look at this leaked Rihanna article :wow:

 

[Big Boss]

This cheating

 

[Maschine_Man]

Jayz been faking album sales forever

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

True, good point. But my question is, why don't artists get a plaques for mixtape downloads then? The same "active motion" exists. The only difference is there is no corporation interested in being apart of the marketing. But the same exact listeners are there...

because the mixtapes aren't registered and neither are the sites they are on


it's not like you can just set up a site or store and start having sales count there... that place has to go get registered with the riaa to make sure they are on the up and up and the numbers are genuine

mixtape sites are not about to register with no damn riaa

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

You sound like one of those people who say using steroids is cheating.

it isn't

 

[really tho]

shyt is wack

something we can finally agree on

album is

 

[avon barksdale]

so she broke snoop and weezy record in one day

 

[mrfortune]

she prolly gets paid more in a couple shows then she would as a "traditional" platinum artist so what ever works

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Fugazi shyt