poll Most successful 8th album: Anti x folklore x Music?

[Raspberries]

14 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

well. pretty sure it's easier to sell albums in America when somebody white makes the safest least inoffensive music for white folks

 

 

White like the people who wrote Rihanna's music for her?

 

 

Or the producer that gave her her biggest hit worldwide?

 

[WildHeart]

The way Navy was arguing about Anti being bigger than Reputation few years ago, deflected to Lover few years later and deflecting once again with Folklore

What is next, deflecting to Taylor’s least selling album Evermore? 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Artistofthedecade

[Raspberries]

14 minutes ago, airplane said:

The album opened with 700K units and dropped 80% in week 2 and keeps dropping. That may be above Rihanna but it’s still frontloaded. Hope that helps

 

Rihanna was never an amazing album seller in the US because 65-70% of her album sales came from outside the country, a concept which was foreign to Taylor until very recently, when she started making noise in regions which Rihanna had conquered by 2010.

This also happened with Midnights, an album that will be over 6M by its 1 year anniversary. Is it frontloaded too? 
 

[Axelios]

Just now, airplane said:

The difference is that Taylor still does it, on a magnitude unparalleled. Not comparable 

 

 

[Axelios]

1 minute ago, Artistofthedecade said:

The way Navy was arguing about Anti being bigger than Reputation few years ago, deflected to Lover few years later and deflecting once again with Folklore

What is next, Taylor’s least selling album Evermore? 

They're comparing Rihanna studio albums to rerecordings now 

[Raspberries]

1 minute ago, Axelios said:

 

 

And then failed to go #1 because Taylor was the one who blocked her

 

[airplane]

2 minutes ago, Axelios said:

 

 

Are those remixes? 

[Axelios]

1 minute ago, airplane said:

Are those remixes? 

No it's a desperate cashgrab to go #1. I'm glad it failed miserably despite the radio deal and all the promo

[airplane]

3 minutes ago, Axelios said:

They're comparing Rihanna studio albums to rerecordings now 

Nobody gives a **** about that album, as demonstrated by its free fall on Spotify and Billboard, please 

[JawBreaker]

Obviously Folklore 

It might not have had any hits when it was originally released but it has held up so well. Cardigan and August are classics in the making which will prolong its longevity even more. 

 

[nostalgic]

Anti - 1,285,000 (pure) / 10,603,000 total EAS

Folklore - 2,954,000 (pure) / 10,871,000 total EAS

Music - 10,700,000 (pure) / 13,963,000 total EAS

 

There. If you can do basic math, you can see Music has been the most commercially successful overall. Now stop arguing semantics and touch some grass, it's not that serious. 

 

 

 

[airplane]

2 minutes ago, Axelios said:

No it's a desperate cashgrab to go #1. I'm glad it failed miserably despite the radio deal and all the promo

Like how ME! failed against Lil Nas X after she poured all of radio and youtube ad payola into it?

 

Not to forget this frontloaded bomb foaming with Payola:

 

 

Edited July 28, 2023 by airplane

[Raspberries]

Just now, airplane said:

Are those remixes? 

They are desperate attempts at inflating sales. Just like these are desperate attempts at inflating streams 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TaylorFantasy]

“It’s more funnier when the majority only care in the first two weeks and then forget about it”

Like the navies didn’t get destroyed by @The Music Industry two pages ago on ANTi’s (Rihanna’s least front loaded album) chart run two pages ago

 

It’s also a very peculiar choice to bring up Taylor’s singles success because she does not need smash hits to move album units. The parent album of tHe BiGgEsT dRoP fRoM #1 single is still charting right now.

[Axelios]

2 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

They are desperate attempts at inflating sales. Just like these are desperate attempts at inflating streams 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is so shameless 

[Raspberries]

Lift Me Up

298,647,213 (+345,791)

 

Rihanna's "musical comeback" featured in a Marvel movie, payola'd to hell and back on every platform, was performed at the Oscars, etc. is currently being outstreamed daily by 92 Taylor Swift songs

[JawBreaker]

2 minutes ago, nostalgic said:

Anti - 1,285,000 (pure) / 10,603,000 total EAS

Folklore - 2,954,000 (pure) / 10,871,000 total EAS

Music - 10,700,000 (pure) / 13,963,000 total EAS

 

There. If you can do basic math, you can see Music has been the most commercially successful overall. Now stop arguing semantics and touch some grass, it's not that serious. 

 

 

 

This only shows that Anti and Folklore are bigger considering they've been out for way lesser time. Both will obviously surpass it. 

[nostalgic]

1 minute ago, JawBreaker said:

This only shows that Anti and Folklore are bigger considering they've been out for way lesser time. Both will obviously surpass it. 

Ok and when that happens, you can call them the most successful - but not today. 

[WildHeart]

15 minutes ago, airplane said:

Like how ME! failed against Lil Nas X after she poured all of radio and youtube ad payola into it?

 

Not to forget this frontloaded bomb foaming with Payola:

 

 

Thankfully these didn't stop Reputation and Lover from ending up bigger than 6/8 (soon 7/8) Rihanna albums

Edited July 28, 2023 by Artistofthedecade

[airplane]

3 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

They are desperate attempts at inflating sales. Just like these are desperate attempts at inflating streams 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Headlock]

Not someone calling Taylor’s albums frontloaded now, they have to be a Rih set up account at this point, why would you do that to her 

[airplane]

4 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

Lift Me Up

298,647,213 (+345,791)

 

Rihanna's "musical comeback" featured in a Marvel movie, payola'd to hell and back on every platform, was performed at the Oscars, etc. is currently being outstreamed daily by 92 Taylor Swift songs

The song did what it had to do… get performed at the Oscars. Taylor dreams of that every night

Edited July 28, 2023 by airplane

[Raspberries]

3 minutes ago, airplane said:

We admit willow was a fraudulent #1. But at least it went #1 with those tricks, which is difficult to do not everyone could do it 

[istan4badgalriri]

1 minute ago, TaylorFantasy said:

“It’s more funnier when the majority only care in the first two weeks and then forget about it”

Like the navies didn’t get destroyed by @The Music Industry two pages ago on ANTi’s (Rihanna’s least front loaded album) chart run two pages ago

 

It’s also a very peculiar choice to bring up Taylor’s singles success because she does not need smash hits to move album units. The parent album of tHe BiGgEsT dRoP fRoM #1 single is still charting right now.

still charting bc she's continuously boosting her catalog with album drops every 6 months and currently touring her entire discog.

 

before the aggressive album drops she was struggling to keep up with Rihanna's daily streams even tho Rihanna's most recent project was 3 years old:

 

 

[Raspberries]

3 minutes ago, airplane said:

The song did what it had to do… get performed at the Oscars. Taylor dreams of that every night

I think Taylor is just fine while she is on the biggest tour in the history of music and is about to time the IFPI yet again