It appears that even after the massive success of ‘Umbrella’ and a huge promotional campaign, Rihanna’s latest LP ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ won’t be debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200.According to Hits Daily Double’s analysis of first day sales, Rihanna will vie for the #2 or #3 position with T-Pain – whose ‘Epiphany’ album was also released yesterday. Both artists are expected to sell in the region of 160-170k in their opening week. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is tipped to take the top spot with his latest effort.
I’m kinda surprised by this. Def Jam haven’t been behind an artist this much since Mariah’s comeback and to think that after all that she won’t debut in the top spot. Then again, the opening numbers will be Rihanna’s highest yet. Surely that’s an achievement?
What do you think?
18 COMMENTS
Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Serves the bitch right. That album was garbage
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Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 4:12 pm
here album is grat and she should dserve it…she been promting like crazy i think she should get higher than that bout 200k
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fergg
June 6, 2007 at 4:18 pm
promo doesn’t mean shit. she’s a wack artist with weak voclas. catchy songs don’t make people run and buy your record. her new image, i think, fucked her up. she should have rode this rock thing but kept it carribean with a slight upgrade. she’s been so grunge and rockerish, rihanna is just lame, her cd was all over the place trying to have so many styles, pick one and rock with it.
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Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Her album sucked..I was previewing it on iTunes and I was really disappointed. I liked ‘Cry’ & ‘Haunted’ which are only on the Japan release. I don’t see any hit songs on the album. She could’ve done way better.
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Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I Must be a lot of Beyonce stans commenting.But don’t be mad because jay is still under ri ri Umbreila-la -la so
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Eyo
June 6, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Quite shocking, I guess people still don’t consider her an artist; however, this is album is HOT w/many possible hit POP songs!
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Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 6:51 pm
May her label should have done the tactics Sony did with Beyonce to force a number 1.
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linds
June 6, 2007 at 8:45 pm
boohoo. Didn’t expect her album to be so…um…pop but i’m not surprised.
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Anonymous
June 6, 2007 at 11:05 pm
It’s only the first week I’m sure she will improve I mean all of her albums have went platnium and I’m sure this one will be no different.
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Anonymous
June 7, 2007 at 5:47 am
wow, ciara did like 350 in the first week. i feel like rihanna gets more hype, considered more beautiful, gets mtv support more than ciara…yet ciara still outsells her. interesting
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Anonymous
June 7, 2007 at 5:49 am
mtv must not mean shit now a days. rhianna’s video is #1 on mtv and it has this in sales. same thing happened to hillary duff.
i guess black artist should focus on BET more
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Anonymous
June 7, 2007 at 5:55 am
lol, mtv called her the reigning queen of rnb when she can’t even compete in sales witht he real queens
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Anonymous
June 7, 2007 at 9:45 am
i love ri ri
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Anonymous
June 7, 2007 at 10:41 am
i do too. but the sales reflect different. i think she should go back to regea pop
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me
June 7, 2007 at 10:41 am
i like riana but i like ciara better.
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JadeLin
June 8, 2007 at 3:12 am
Well her album was basically leaked onto the internet even before her album was even released. Either people could have already heard half the songs on the album already off the internet and decided not to buy the album since it was slightly alot more Pop. Different from her usual music works.. maybe she should have just stuck to her old material but i guess change is good..Here album really is okay, but its more Pop than R&B. Hopefully her album will gain more sales in the following weeks
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Anonymous
June 9, 2007 at 5:58 am
A lot of y’all act like the official sales for her 1st week have been posted. This post just says that from first day sales, predictions are she wont be number one and will sell an approximate number. That is going off one day. Suppose the majority of her fans and whoever else wants the album goes out this weekend or any other day of the week and buys the album? Then this post is just that, a prediction that may be wrong. The album definitely won’t flop in my opinion.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2007 at 7:58 am
I THINK HER LACK OF SALES HAD TO DO WITH THE ALBUM LEAKING ON THE INTERNET 3 WEEKS BEFORE HER ALBUM DROPPED .
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