charts discussion Rihanna is #2 on Spotify Monthly Listeners, #1 female. Surprised? Pressed?

[XAMJ]

poor other fanbases, clinging onto whatever fake stat they can come up with. meanwhile riri is slaying without caring

[rihannafan]

24 minutes ago, sasashite said:

Monthly listeners are inflated and manipulated by playlisting. The best way to quantify how many real people an artist's music reaches is through touring. Unfortunately, Rihanna is not very good at that. 

Im sure this made sense in your head

 

Rihanna has probably toured the most countries out of any popgirl anyway. 

[liquiddiamonds]

Swifities vs Every female that does something impressive on ATRL is getting tired by now lol No one cares if Taylor is the most streamed artist  on a song by song basis, since that’s not the methodology being used here. Her achievements are constantly celebrated in other spaces. When Taylor was #1 for monthly listeners when Midnights smashed out of the gate was stupid to downplay that achievement too. I understand that there’s a lot of bait around, but it was not the case here at all. It’s weird energy and it’s present every time SOS is celebrated too (although in those cases i do see other fanbases baiting you guys)… it aint hard to scroll past. It’s always the same people and Taylor doesn’t need that at all

 

OT: powerful catalogue she has 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by liquiddiamonds

[sasashite]

1 minute ago, rihannafan said:

Im sure this made sense in your head

 

Rihanna has probably toured the most countries out of any popgirl anyway. 

More countries =/= more people. Sorry 

[eleganceislearned]

She's been around for nearly 2 decades at this point and has a ton of features, I'm not surprised at all tbh. 

[Johnny Jacobs]

The delusional monsters and swifties cant handle it huh? 

 

When we'll see the day those vanilla stans of their vanilla faves wont belittle a successful black woman? Beyonce, SZA, Rihanna.. 

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by Johnny Jacobs

[ninasayers]

1 hour ago, sasashite said:

Monthly listeners are inflated and manipulated by playlisting. The best way to quantify how many real people an artist's music reaches is through touring. Unfortunately, Rihanna is not very good at that. 

Rihanna is my fave and I wouldn't go to a concert of hers 'cause I quite literally couldn't afford it. What do you make of that? 

Edited March 6, 2023 by ninasayers

[DonDesperado]

Good achievement, 7 years since ANTi. That's so good. She clearly wasted the boost of the SB for an album

[Klein]

I understand the title is a little misleading but why are people being so dense? 

 

Congrats Rihanna for doing that despite barely releasing any new music in 7 years. 

Edited March 6, 2023 by Klein

[airplane]

 

 

56 minutes ago, YellowRibbon said:

I've always found the whole concept of "Monthly Listeners" d*mb. Who cares if someone listened to one of your singles for 45 seconds while putting a playlist on shuffle mode. That person was not really searching for your music specifically. I find the actual number of streams than an artist gets more impressive because it is harder to build a big audience that can help you get a long music career. 

 

Everyone here knows WHY so many artists that reach 50-60-70-80M monthly listeners struggle to sell out tour, they eventually have to move into other business ventures. 

 

OT: congrats to Ms Avon for that achievement.

This failed attempt at shade knowing how one-dimensional the girl in your avi is and how she does not have the range to succeed outside of making mediocre music. Even the Oscars said NO to her desperate attempt at 'directing'.

 

It's lovely to see ORH undermine and discredit rihanna at every attempt considering how they were anticipating her failure prior to the superbowl and the complete opposite happened (like it always does)

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by airplane

[getBusy]

I knew i was gonna have fun with the replies when i created this thread, but not THIS MUCH FUN. Some of y’all are truly delusional 😂 The excuses are next level. Congrats ORH, you outdid yourselves 👏🏼

[Klein]

9 minutes ago, airplane said:

 

 

This failed attempt at shade knowing how one-dimensional the girl in your avi is and how she does not have the range to succeed outside of making mediocre music. Even the Oscars said NO to her desperate attempt at 'directing' so i'd sit this one out.

 

"one dimensional" "mediocre music" when she has an AOTY win in 3 different genres... Be serious. 

 

(Not that I support any of what that delusional user said though)

[Rihannito]

1 hour ago, YellowRibbon said:

I've always found the whole concept of "Monthly Listeners" d*mb. Who cares if someone listened to one of your singles for 45 seconds while putting a playlist on shuffle mode. That person was not really searching for your music specifically. I find the actual number of streams than an artist gets more impressive because it is harder to build a big audience that can help you get a long music career. 

 

Everyone here knows WHY so many artists that reach 50-60-70-80M monthly listeners struggle to sell out tour, they eventually have to move into other business ventures. 

 

OT: congrats to Ms Avon for that achievement.

You really thought you said something, don’t you ? You sound jealous AF! Rihanna was named the most streamed female artist in 5 different years, a record yet to be broken. Rihanna IS the streaming queen and the fact that she hasn’t released an album since 2016 and doing these numbers, while some other girlies have to multi spam to achieve such milestones is an indicator of her power! You can criticize all you want about her being an avon lady, but she is the most influential female artist on earth, a MOGUL, she is the FUTURE my dear! Now go back to join your streaming farms, mommy needs points for billboard next week.

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by Rihannito

[BGKC]

Not at all surprising. She is the OG streaming behemoth and was bound to see an incredible boost like that 

[Soda Pop Queen]

Back in pole position with no new music in sight. An effortless slay. 

[FightDragonsWithMe]

The influencer did that. 

[TheseThingsHappen]

Such a legend! 

[Trent W]

Regardless of how people feel about streams of monthly listeners 

 

Rihanna is the undisputed queen of streaming.

 

She’s above SZA, Taylor, Adele, Beyonce, Miley and others without a new album in 7 years. It’s insane

 

Honestly no one else can pull this off, I stan the other women too but none of them would be pulling these numbers without an album in 7 years.

[youkneekorn]

Neither surprised, nor pressed. 
 

Only a certain fanbase was pressed by Queen RiRi’s thunderous return at the SBHTS. 

[istan4badgalriri]

3 hours ago, YellowRibbon said:

I've always found the whole concept of "Monthly Listeners" d*mb. Who cares if someone listened to one of your singles for 45 seconds while putting a playlist on shuffle mode. That person was not really searching for your music specifically. I find the actual number of streams than an artist gets more impressive because it is harder to build a big audience that can help you get a long music career. 

 

Everyone here knows WHY so many artists that reach 50-60-70-80M monthly listeners struggle to sell out tour, they eventually have to move into other business ventures. 

 

OT: congrats to Ms Avon for that achievement.

Rihanna being #2 in monthly listeners, and #1 among women, with no album in over 7 years is impressive no matter how you spin it. Like nobody else has ever done this and I honestly doubt anyone else could.

[bad guy]

4 hours ago, FENTY. said:

Swifties were celebrating just weeks ago this achievement and now it’s irrelevant

 

OT: But I thought her SBHTS was panned? I thought she was over since LMU didn't go #1? What's going on ATRL?

[RihFenty20]

She fact that she can still reach this many people after so long is monumental. Nobody else could do this. 
 

I really hope we can get the album by the end of the year because witnessing the meltdowns here after she stomps like she did with ANTI will be hilarious. 

[EliteNaviShit]

The replies in here Now imagine what would happen if Rihanna was actively releasing LET ALONE trying hard like a certain someone and shoving her music down people’s throats. Just do the math. The numbers are there

[Caribbean Boy]

No wonder a certain fan base was fuming on Twitter today…..the baby Karens was out in their number…. Congrats queen

[lonnie]

7 hours ago, FENTY. said:

Swifties were celebrating just weeks ago this achievement and now it’s irrelevant

 

 

 

OT: When you remember how people on here INSISTED that interest in her and her music was done after LMU and how she was somehow never going to recover from the SB