@XYZ

I’m supposed to be upset because CB has frontloaded sales, and even though F.A.M.E. debuted at #1 and Loud at #3, Loud still scanned plat in the US faster than F.A.M.E.? We’re not even going to talk about WW sales. I’ll spare you that.

Rated R went platinum in the US and had a single that was number 1 for 4-5 weeks, even though it was a dark album, and the fact, that Loud scanned 1M US in a third of the time that it took for Rated R to do the same proves that the album didn’t sell as well because it wasn’t as commercial. Within the next 4-5 weeks, Loud will have sold 4.5 Million copies WW. Not to mention that she’ll sell 5M WW before the 1st anniversary of the album without a re-release. As for Nicki selling more than Ri in the US, why would that matter? Good for Nicki. Nicki is a new artist and a rapper, and if you’re going to make that comparison, then I’ll just have to bring up how Drake’s LP is slaying CB’s sales, without the benefit of a chair throwing episode on a morning talk show or a performance on DWTS.

And speaking of DWTS . . . 19M people supposedly watched CB on DWTS on March 29th, and his US album sales still dropped 68% the following week and another 42% the week after that. (LOL)

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/archcht.cgi?cht441

As for no one caring about Ri . . . Don’t make me laugh. Right, no one cares about Rihanna, least of all, Parlux, the company producing Rebelle Fleur, which spent 5M on her fragrance promo campaign. Nivea, Dorritos, and Vita CoCo, also don’t care about Rihanna, which is why they signed her to lucrative endorsement deals within the past year. 10 sold 02 shows and a WW tour (kicking off tomorrow) that’s probably going to gross nine figures or close to it, when it wraps, but no one cares about her. No one cares about Rihanna, but her magazine covers are consistent best sellers. She had the best selling cover of GQ in 2010 and one of the best selling covers of Seventeen that year. No one cares about Rihanna, but she’s covered American Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Cosmopolitan all in the same year. You don’t get to cover Conde Nast books like GQ and American Vogue, if you’re irrelevant to the mainstream, which may explain why Rihanna has covered both American and UK GQ and not Chris Brown.

If Rihanna can boast all of that, and no one cares about her, what does that say about CB?