"I just read on Billboard Coldplay debuted this week at #1 in the USA with 450,000 copies sold. That is what we call a true album seller, not a singles artist (aka Rihanna and Katy Perry). Even Michael Buble debuted with almost 200,000 with a Xmas album and we are only at the beggining of November, another album seller without the constant need of generic singles and videos. Rihanna will probably debut with just that: 200,000 copies. Becoming a real big act is clearly not her thing. Of course for doing that you need to have talent (well except for Britney Spears, who was an album seller without having talent, but that must be the only exception in music history)"
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Uh-oh, return of the pressed and desperate (Johnvidal) . . .

Apparently Rihanna is a big enough act for ColdPlay to duet with . . .

The Carter 4 sold almost 1M in week one but won't come anywhere near LOUD's overall WW sales total.

Taylor Swift's Fearless scanned plat in week 1 as well, but LOUD outsold Fearless, months ago.

BTW sold 1M US in week (Amazon promo and all), and according to mediattraffic, BTW only sold 6K more copies WW than LOUD, an album that dropped six months prior.

None of those artists will come close to creating the mania or matching the sales or performance skill of Britney in her prime.

Your shade isn't even clever. Hang it up.