Why are we so interested if Rihanna goes #1 or not...after all having a #1 album does not equal commercial success in the long run....look at Trey Songz ...had a #1 album ...and has he physically sold 1million copies yet? no i don't think so. Yet Rihanna who has never had a #1 .....5 of her 6 studio albums has sold over 1 million copies in the states. The point i am trying to bring across is that debut sales sometimes doesn't speak for the overall performance of an album . I am not a huge fan of Rihanna but it seems like she does well outside of the U.S. at the end of the day we all know she's gonna sell over a mill.