AuntieJackie wrote

Let’s see Rihanna tour with a popular opening act. Let’s see her write every song on her album with only a few features. Let’s see her not change her hair color every five minuets. Let’s see her team spend half the money on promotion they do now–like Nicki Minaj’s album, which outsold hers.

Nicki Minaj 1,189,000 U.S.
Rihanna 1,039,000 U.S.

THEN we’ll see just how big a star she is. Let’ see her sell that much with half the promo, none of the gimmicks. Yeah, fucking right.
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AuntJackie

Lets look at the bigger picture, not just the US.

The US isn't the be all. £,Euro >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>$ remember.

Rihanna has sold over 3.5 million copies of Loud WW since November 19 2010. This figure includes over 1,2m in the UK alone. This is in less than 5 months. She has also sold around 15 million singles from Loud and had two, three if you count Ems collabo no.1 global hits.

Love Ncki but you can't compare as she has only just sold over a million copies of her album in the US...her worldwide numbers are just not there and she barely charted ww, whereas Loud topped the main pop charts in several countries including the UK, Canada and Swiz. You really can't compare an international POP icon to a national hip hop star. It is what it is.