1 hour ago, Rhiannon said:

You know well that pure sales were still relevant back in 2017

 

Gaga sold 400k the week after her show, also The Fame went top10 on BB and Million Reasons got a #4 peak remember 

 

Stop trying it OGH.

 

 

OT: Congrats to Rih

 

 

oh wow

 

PoinTs

 

/thread

13 minutes ago, Diocles said:

 

This. Gaga SLAYED the sales field, unlike Rihanna.

 

The Navy should take the L and sit tf down 

Rihanna "slayed" the sales field as well, what L are you talking about?  

 

5 minutes ago, Diocles said:

 

 

2023 says hi 

 

chart positions =/= big sales 

Okay? So why are you making that comparison then?  I agree that the users dragging Gaga are being obnoxious, but like... you're not making any sense. 

Edited February 15, 20233 yr by ninasayers

4 minutes ago, ninasayers said:

? Multiple users were claiming the boost Rihanna got is "the norm", and that's clearly not the case as proven by this thread. People are always making threads about numbers, why is it only an issue now?  I'm so lost.

the poked the bear and now they’re pressed

I guess a ton of you are bothered because you think this thread was made to drag other artists but it's literally just to point out that Rih's boost was an anomaly. A lot of users were pretending the numbers weren't impressive and this is just proving otherwise. Chill. 

Edited February 15, 20233 yr by ninasayers

Rihanna doesn't need new music. Her fans just needs stats to be fed  but good for Riri (and her fans)

1 hour ago, Squall said:

How is it fair to compare when it was the first Rihanna performance in 7 years though? She obviously did amazing but I don't understand why people act like you can compare to artists who have stayed in the spotlight before performing.

Remember when y'all said she would be forgotten and irrelevant if she took a long break? And now you're coming up with opposite narrative.   What a bunch of losers, keep seething.

Rih!

1 hour ago, Rhiannon said:

Not you acting as if every other artist didn't discount their music after their superbowl, including your fav plzz!!

There are zero Rihanna songs selling for $0.69 and zero Rihanna albums selling for less than $5 on iTunes like Gaga did. The only discount I’m seeing is Bloody Mary actually 

 

OT: Catalogue of classics 

2 hours ago, Insanity said:

2017 wasn't that big yet for Spotify

It was well within the streaming era

 

It would be different if it was 2014 

1 hour ago, Rhiannon said:

So? streaming a song on spoti is literally FREE  

 

Not you acting as if every other artist didn't discount their music after their superbowl, including your fav plzz!!

 

OT: No one denied Rih still is a streaming force, so I wasn’t surprised she slayed that hard 

 

Rihanna didn't discount any of her albums or singles though...

26 minutes ago, Peep Show said:

Remember when y'all said she would be forgotten and irrelevant if she took a long break? And now you're coming up with opposite narrative.   What a bunch of losers, keep seething.

Right like let's talk about that  

1 hour ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Wouldn’t that be even more impressive that Rihanna pulled such numbers with music released 7 years to over a decade ago and 15 years ago ?

No because that’s all those years of it being forgotten only to be reminded of it. Who’s gonna rush to stream a song they’ve already been listening to ad nauseum? There are probably a lot of younger people who heard most of these songs for the first time. It’s kinda like how as soon as Ariana stopped putting out music she just kinda isn’t talked about

5 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

No because that’s all those years of it being forgotten only to be reminded of it. Who’s gonna rush to stream a song they’ve already been listening to ad nauseum? There are probably a lot of younger people who heard most of these songs for the first time. It’s kinda like how as soon as Ariana stopped putting out music she just kinda isn’t talked about

You need to check her daily stream sweetie! 

but you need to consider also amount of push. 
I had banner “We Love Rihanna” in my app and all of her albums listed. I’ve never seen something like this for anyone.

48 minutes ago, Peep Show said:

Remember when y'all said she would be forgotten and irrelevant if she took a long break? And now you're coming up with opposite narrative.   What a bunch of losers, keep seething.

Maybe you should stop using the "but people said that!!!" argument when responding to someone  

 

Not sure why you would insult me, it's just my opinion, I didn't say anything bad or rude.

Edited February 15, 20233 yr by Squall

2 minutes ago, Squall said:

Maybe you should stop using the "but people said that!!!" argument when responding to someone  

 

Not sure why you would insult me, it's just my opinion, I didn't say anything bad or rude.

truth hurts sweetie.

 

youve been in Rihanna threads for 3 days straight. go outside. have a laugh.

2 hours ago, Rihannito said:

Congrats to the queen.

 

Gaga charting  4 songs

Gaga was a streaming poison during pre- SB performance so it's not that surprising. She picked up since then though and she went from a bomb in streaming to Top 10/15 daily streamed for females in Spotify. If that's not growth, idk what is

15 minutes ago, bringdanoize said:

but you need to consider also amount of push. 
I had banner “We Love Rihanna” in my app and all of her albums listed. I’ve never seen something like this for anyone.

Every SB headliner gets a big promo push every year though. Gaga was on every iTunes banner with all albums discounted to like $5.

15 minutes ago, WeFoundWill said:

truth hurts sweetie.

 

youve been in Rihanna threads for 3 days straight. go outside. have a laugh.

And what about it? You're allowed to create and post in many threads and I can't? It's not like I come in here to hate on her, people are allowed to have a damn opinion, you want it or not.

Obviously very impressive, but also notice that the list goes exactly in reverse chronological order.

 

Catalogue streams have been growing year-over-year on Spotify. This is a known fact. You can't really make a direct comparison. 

3 hours ago, Insanity said:

2017 wasn't that big yet for Spotify

What? 
 

Omg her power.

19 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Every SB headliner gets a big promo push every year though. Gaga was on every iTunes banner with all albums discounted to like $5.

this thread about Spotify and I’m talking about it

Rih kinda stomped
 

Also Troy was still working at Spotify in 2017 so... You do the math x https://variety.com/2018/music/news/troy-carter-exits-spotify-1202853576/amp/

2 hours ago, Rhiannon said:

You know well that pure sales were still relevant back in 2017

 

Gaga sold 400k the week after her show, also The Fame went top10 on BB and Million Reasons got a #4 peak remember 

 

Stop trying it OGH.

 

 

OT: Congrats to Rih

oh wow oh wow

 

Rihanna fans need to cope somehow, let's give them this. Abysmal performance, no new music, no new tour