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

[airplane]

Just now, Raspberries said:

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

She isn’t fine. She hired a whole PR agency to bag an Oscar nomination. You know how desperate she is for that kind of validation 

[Raspberries]

Just now, istan4badgalriri said:

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:

 

 

Taylor has never had trouble charting albums. Taylor Swift (2006) is literally the album with the most weeks charted in the 2000s  Her albums did 150-200+ weeks regularly, even before her Spotify/streaming domination 

[TaylorFantasy]

4 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

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:

 

 

And yet agGrEsSiVe rELeAse sChEduLe did not benefit the others (eg: Rihanna’s catalogue when she was releasing a new album every 11 months, and other streaming era artists with tight release schedules.). Only Taylor. Must be doing something right.

Edited July 28, 2023 by TaylorFantasy

[Raspberries]

Just now, airplane said:

She isn’t fine. She hired a whole PR agency to bag an Oscar nomination. You know how desperate she is for that kind of validation 

She wants an Oscar. So what? Rihanna clearly wants one too seeing as she used this as her big musical comeback and it was a song from a Marvel movie dedicated to a universally beloved celebrity. She still lost and the song was a gigantic failure

[Klein]

1 minute ago, istan4badgalriri said:

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:

 

Rihanna had released 8 albums at that point vs 6 for Taylor though. 

[Raspberries]

2 minutes ago, TaylorFantasy said:

And yet agGrEsSiVe rELeAse sChEduLe did not benefit the others (eg: Rihanna’s catalogue when she was releasing a new album every 11 months, and other streaming era artists with tight release schedules.). Only Taylor. Must be doing something right.

Rihanna spam released until Unapologetic and the only album to do 100+ weeks was Good Girl Gone Bad. And it took a re-release and a resurgence post-Super Bowl to get there

 

The audacity from that Rihanna stan

[airplane]

2 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

She wants an Oscar. So what? Rihanna clearly wants one too seeing as she used this as her big musical comeback and it was a song from a Marvel movie dedicated to a universally beloved celebrity. She still lost and the song was a gigantic failure

Rihanna didn’t use this as her musical comeback but did the song out of love for Chadwick. Not everyone is a greedy capitalist like Taylor Swift, only looking for their personal gains.

 

Talking about gigantic failures, Taylor is 0/9 at an Oscar nomination for a soundtrack song

[WildHeart]

12 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

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:

 

 

Rihanna - 6.53M (8 albums) - 810k average 

Taylor - 6.44M (6 albums) - 1.07M average

 

Not you proving that she was always performing better 

 

 

Would you like to explain why Rihanna doesn't have any album with +3M daily streams despite performing in front of +100M people & releasing her highly anticipated comeback single with an Oscars performance in less than 6 months ago? 

Why don't boosts work for miss Rihanna? 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Artistofthedecade

[Raspberries]

Just now, airplane said:

Rihanna didn’t use this as her musical comeback but did the song out of love for Chadwick. Not everyone is a greedy capitalist like Taylor Swift, only looking for their personal gains.

 

Talking about gigantic failures, Taylor is 0/9 at an Oscar nomination for a soundtrack song

Yes, her song out of love with alternate digital covers, Wakandan Karoke Instrumental Lyric Visualizers that we're all heavily discounted. Her song out of love that was written by someone else

 

This was billed as Rihanna's big music comeback and had the rollout of a gigantic lead single. It was just a gigantic commercial failure and was rightfully blocked by the smash hit Anti-Hero

[TaylorFantasy]

And 3/5 at Album of the Year 

[airplane]

Just now, Artistofthedecade said:

Rihanna - 6.53M (8 albums) - 810k average 

Taylor - 6.44M (5 albums) - 1.28M 

 

Not you proving that she was always performing better 

 

 

Would you like to explain why Rihanna doesn't have any album with +3M daily streams despite performing in front of +100M people & releasing her highly anticipated comeback single with an Oscars performance in less than 6 months ago? 

Why don't boosts work for miss Rihanna? 

Maybe because two of those events happened several months ago and are not an ongoing event plastered all over social media + aided by new releases?

 

The reach 

[Raspberries]

Just now, TaylorFantasy said:

And 3/5 at Album of the Year 

Didn't ANTI go 0/8 at the Grammys? 

 

[airplane]

1 minute ago, Raspberries said:

Yes, her song out of love with alternate digital covers, Wakandan Karoke Instrumental Lyric Visualizers that we're all heavily discounted. Her song out of love that was written by someone else

 

This was billed as Rihanna's big music comeback and had the rollout of a gigantic lead single. It was just a gigantic commercial failure and was rightfully blocked by the smash hit Anti-Hero

If you really think Rihanna is responsible for those lyric videos and radio deals and not Disney then idk what to tell you 😂😂

 

Taylor is currently finding 60 ways to sell her next album and scam her fans in the process (it forms a clock). Billboard’s on her ass so i don’t think there’s many versions she can put out this time

[WildHeart]

Just now, airplane said:

Maybe because two of those events happened several months ago and are not an ongoing event plastered all over social media + aided by new releases?

 

The reach 

So Rihanna's performance in front of 100M can't even boost her for 5 months but Taylor's 2019 album Lover or 2021 re-recording Fearless TV supposed to boost her numbers after +2 years? 

 

Maybe she is just not that girl 

[istan4badgalriri]

5 minutes ago, TaylorFantasy said:

And yet agGrEsSiVe rELeAse sChEduLe did not benefit the others (eg: Rihanna’s catalogue when she was releasing a new album every 11 months, and other streaming era artists with tight release schedules.). Only Taylor. Must be doing something right.

...imagine comparing catalog boosts in the digital/pure sales vs streaming era

 

and literally which other high-profile artist is putting out 2 albums a year......and re-releasing old albums.....with an album worth of new tracks on each  

[airplane]

3 minutes ago, Artistofthedecade said:

So Rihanna's performance in front of 100M can't even boost her for 5 months but Taylor's 2019 album Lover or 2021 re-recording Fearless TV supposed to boost her numbers after +2 years? 

 

Maybe she is just not that girl 

You’re really grasping at straws here, trying to make a “point” that does not exist. Your fave is currently on a tour which is all over tiktok and instagram (exposed for algorithm manipulation) + puts out an album every two business days.

 

You only mentioned two albums, did you forget about the others? 

Edited July 28, 2023 by airplane

[Raspberries]

2 minutes ago, airplane said:

If you really think Rihanna is responsible for those lyric videos and radio deals and not Disney then idk what to tell you 😂😂

 

Taylor is currently finding 60 ways to sell her next album and scam her fans in the process (it forms a clock). Billboard’s on her ass so i don’t think there’s many versions she can put out this time

Rihanna was not responsible (like she wasn't responsible for writing any part of the song) for the lyric videos, but her team was. It was treated like a proper lead and it still bombed. That's the point here, Mary 

 

Yes, I'm sure Taylor's next album will break plenty of sales records. And streaming records. All while being acclaimed. No Rihanna albums can say they have done all 3  

 

Should we bring up touring next? Maybe mention that the Eras Tour is out grossing Rihanna's entire touring history combined x4?

[istan4badgalriri]

Just now, Artistofthedecade said:

So Rihanna's performance in front of 100M can't even boost her for 5 months but Taylor's 2019 album Lover or 2021 re-recording Fearless TV supposed to boost her numbers after +2 years? 

 

Maybe she is just not that girl 

said "can't even boost her for 5 months" but she's currently #5 in monthly listeners and pulling 15M daily streams while she's in labor with no new music out and no album in 7 years.

 

idk why you're trying it babes... I promise you Taylor wouldn't be doing what Rihanna's currently doing on streaming had she stopped releasing albums after Reputation. And that's pretty easy to prove considering she was already getting outstreamed by Rihanna 1 year-ish after Reputation came out.

 

[WildHeart]

1 minute ago, airplane said:

You’re really grasping at straws here, trying to make a “point” that does not exist. Your fave is currently on a tour which is all over tiktok and instagram (exposed for algorithm manipulation) + puts out an album every two business days.

So you are basically saying that Taylor performing in front of 3M people had bigger impact on social media than Rihanna performing in front of 120M people? 

 

Maybe she is just not that girl [2]

[airplane]

9 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

the smash hit Anti-Hero

Taylor scored her first hit in a decade after Rihanna did charity and gave her, her best selling hit in Europe and highest certified song America since 2014, with TIWYCF. Truly tragic for the supposed “music industry”

[Axelios]

6 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

...imagine comparing catalog boosts in the digital/pure sales vs streaming era

 

and literally which other high-profile artist is putting out 2 albums a year......and re-releasing old albums.....with an album worth of new tracks on each  

Drake didn't receive any boost despite releasing several albums a year. In fact he seems to have diminishing returns. 

If anything releasing too much dillutes your streams among more tracks. The fact that Lover+1989 outstreams Rihanna whole discography just shows how much bigger she is compared to her.

[TaylorFantasy]

7 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

...imagine comparing catalog boosts in the digital/pure sales vs streaming era

 

and literally which other high-profile artist is putting out 2 albums a year......and re-releasing old albums.....with an album worth of new tracks on each  

Imagine comparing Taylor Swift’s digital era albums’ streaming performances when she just returned to said streaming platform to Rihanna who’s been having heavy playlisting there.

[Raspberries]

2 minutes ago, airplane said:

Taylor scored her first hit in a decade after Rihanna did charity and gave her, her best selling hit in Europe and highest certified song America since 2014, with TIWYCF. Truly tragic for the supposed “music industry”

Her first hit in a decade? IDWLF was a worldwide smash and YNTCD is nearing 6M units in the US alone  Not to mention she gave Rihanna her actual biggest hit in a decade with her pen

[TaylorFantasy]

13 minutes ago, Raspberries said:

Didn't ANTI go 0/8 at the Grammys? 

 

Not sure if true but how ****ed up! Another metric where fo#1klore is bigger than ANTi I’m afraid!

[WildHeart]

7 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

said "can't even boost her for 5 months" but she's currently #5 in monthly listeners and pulling 15M daily streams while she's in labor with no new music out and no album in 7 years.

 

idk why you're trying it babes... I promise you Taylor wouldn't be doing what Rihanna's currently doing on streaming had she stopped releasing albums after Reputation. And that's pretty easy to prove considering she was already getting outstreamed by Rihanna 1 year-ish after Reputation came out.

 

Oh believe me Taylor's biggest album & last release in streaming era wouldn't struggle to do 3M daily streams after performing them to 120M people only few months ago

 

Let alone Taylor... Lana and Katy both have an album outstreaming any Rihanna album daily despite struggling to release anything relevant for years now 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Artistofthedecade