@RihannaForever...

You are a breath of fresh air in here. You can articulate your points of view intelligently, and you're right: Ri will do Plat like she always does. And that's okay.

I will speak for myself and say that I think part of the "flopping" talk is because of what she did GGGB. I thought that the next era, would be her "B'day era" where her album would be so anticipated that she would do big #s the first week and be consistent with her GGGB sales.

It didn't happen. So to me, she's not there as a major artist YET. Not a bad career, by any means, but not a major artist. At least not the kind of that Rihanna stans want her to be. Can she be? She's young enough, but she would have to improve some things. The one thing that disappointed me is that last era, it seems she had more imput on her work but this era she didn't and that's regression. The sales issues come secondary to THAT. Now this is just my opinion and I know a lot of Rihanna fans would not like what I am saying but I think you're mature enough to handle what I am saying.