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Do you find Rihanna's digital sales unimpressive?

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Rihanna is the second best selling female artist (singles). This is due to the fact that she released almost double the amount of singles and albums as her peers (no shade of course)

When looking at her sales, it seems to be very unimpressive, especially when she gets radio support from pop, urban, rythmic, and HAC sometimes. 

Single Sales

WFL- 5.6 million

Disturbia- 4.95 million

Umbrella-4.7 million

Stay- 4.7 million

S&M- 4 million

Diamonds- 3.8 million

OGITW- 3.6 million

Take a Bow- 3 million

Rude Boy- 3 million

What's my name- 3 million

 

 

 

 

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Her Peers

Gaga                                                            Taylor                                              Katy

Poker Face- 7.6 million                   Love Story-6.1 million                Firework- 7.3 million

Just Dance- 7.2 million                  IKYWT-5.4 million                     Roar- 6.6  million

Bad Romance- 6 million.               Shake It Off- 5.4 mil                  Dark Horse- 6.4 million

Born This way- 4.3 million.          YBWM- 4.9 mil                              ET- 6 million

Paparazzi- 3.6 million                   Blank Space-4.6 mil                    California Gurls- 5.9 million

Telephone-3.5 million                 WANGBT- 4.1 mil                           Hot N Cold- 5.9 million

TEOG- 3 million                            Our Song- 3.4 million                    Teenage Dream- 5 million

 

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I wouldn't say unimpressive, while it is true that she released more singles i don't think it made that huge of a difference. The certified sales tend to be inaccurate and a gross underestimation of the actual sales in reality, especially with older songs and female artists... 

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considering that out of all the artist you just listed, she's the ONLY one who can score a multi platinum smash hit in 2021, id say no. plus, her biggest smashes are on par with taylor.. literally only love story is bigger?? it's literally in your post dead2  a couple hundred thousand sales is hardly that big of a difference

 

 

katy and gaga had bigger smashes in their peak, but where they are now. rihanna won in the long run 

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21 minutes ago, Gilly said:

considering that out of all the artist you just listed, she's the ONLY one who can score a multi platinum smash hit in 2021, id say no. plus, her biggest smashes are on par with taylor.. literally only love story is bigger?? it's literally in your post dead2  a couple hundred thousand sales is hardly that big of a difference

 

 

katy and gaga had bigger smashes in their peak, but where they are now. rihanna won in the long run 

she released more singles then katy and gaga combined tho. Rihanna hasn't released a single in 4 years so we can't predict the future. Gaga is doing quite well 13 years into her career. 

Her #1s don't sell like #1 songs. Paparazzi and Blow by Kesha outsold or sold on par with most of her #1's. I listed her peers, unless you want to add adele which decimates everyone. 

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46 minutes ago, Urbi said:

Honey, she sold more than 250M records, how’s that not impressive? Most of it comes from singles.
Plus these figures you’ve mentioned are wrong but anyways.

these figures are straight from billboards nielson report. These are pure sales not sps. I stated it wasn't shade. She released more than double the amount of singles, hence why they're higher. Her sales for individual songs are disappointing considering she had more radio support.

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1 minute ago, Chris Morlock said:

not since Teenage Dream rih12 

Dark Horse and Roar sold 6.4 and 6.6 million copies which is enormous 

 

1 minute ago, Darth Sidious said:

Her single sales are enormous.

She’s never been a huge album seller, but nine figure record sales is not something to be ashamed of.

yes her total figure is huge, but it's due to the fact that she released 65 singles compared to 50 (Taylor), 21 (Gaga), and 24 (Katy).  But the figures for each single is disappointing sans umbrella and disturbia. 

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16 minutes ago, Simón. said:

They really search to drag Rihanna every way they can rip4 

Like who tf cares about digital singles sales. WFL is literally the biggest female song of the 10s. 

 

It's not the biggest song of the 10's. It didn't even make the year end ifpi chart. Most of it's chart points were coming from radio. It's year end position for digital sales was 17 while being the second most played song of the year. How do digital sales not matter? It shows people actually want to own the song, not radio shoving down people's throats. There are no certification for radio. It's sales and streaming (now). Radio is promotion for the song. It's made to promote a song so that it can sell

https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/digital-songs

https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/radio-songs

There are songs that sold way more with half the radio support, that includes call me maybe, poker face, just dance, rolling in the deep, someone like you, roar and so on. It's success is very radio driven. 

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5 minutes ago, zack said:

It's not the biggest song of the 10's. It didn't even make the year end ifpi chart. Most of it's chart points were coming from radio. It's year end position for digital sales was 17 while being the second most played song of the year. 

https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/digital-songs

https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/radio-songs

There are songs that sold way more with half the radio support, that includes call me maybe, poker face, just dance, rolling in the deep, someone like you, roar and so on. It's success is very radio driven. 

https://www.billboard.com/charts/decade-end/hot-100
 

Rihanna keeps winning, and her haters keep fuming clap3

 

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2 minutes ago, Simón. said:

https://www.billboard.com/charts/decade-end/hot-100
 

Rihanna keeps winning, and her haters keep fuming clap3

A- I am not a hater

B- that is based on chart reverse points and radio. It's not sales and streaming

as stated before..... How do digital sales not matter? It shows people actually want to own the song, not radio shoving down people's throats. There are no certification for radio. It's sales and streaming (now). Radio is promotion for the song. It's made to promote a song so that it can sell

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2 minutes ago, Simón. said:

Yes, you are and yet Rihanna’s legacy goes far beyond those artists you mentioned with only Taylor in the US coming close. clap3

Gaga and Taylor both have a great legacy. Great vocals, talented songwriters, and they play instruments. Gaga is also a better dancer. But we're not talking about legacy here. It's a simple question.... 

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2 minutes ago, zack said:

Gaga and Taylor both have a great legacy. Great vocals, talented songwriters, and they play instruments. Gaga is also a better dancer. But we're not talking about legacy here. It's a simple question.... 

Sure lmfao1

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