Well apparently this ho must be doing something right . First lets critique her album debuts and overall sales in the U.S.:

Debut Total Sales
Music of the sun 69,000 500,000
A Girl like me 115,000 1,330,000
Good Girl Gone Bad 162,000 2,660,000
Rated R 181,000 1,017,000
Loud 207,000 1,556,000
Talk That Talk 197,000 311,000

It seems there is a trend here. Lil Miss Rihanna is not a huge opener but because of her popularity and her constant singles release ,she has manage to somewhat become a "steady seller " It's so weird because she sells well overseas and that is very evident as all of her albums except her first has sold over 3million world wide with Good Girl Gone Bad and LOUD being the most successful selling over 15 million copies combined .

Now onto her voice and her live performance. Rih is not the best singer in the world but then again neither is Janet,Madonna or Britney Spears but they make up for that in their performances. On a good day she can sound good and other days awful. On her tour she has used big sets to aid her in her performances while only dancing just 25% other shows at the end of it all Rih just takes the little she has and make much of it. I found it very ironic that she did her first world tour (Last Girl On Earth) which had poor vocals and lil dancing...i thought the world had had it with her but her sold out shows across Europe speaks otherwise. At the end of the day what make Rihanna successful is that she's unique....she proves you don't have to scream and belt out numbers to sell out arenas and records. Will she last ? maybe.... The pop world these days is very fickle and if you are gone for long the world moves on leaving you behind like it did with Jenifer Lopez,Christina Aguilera and now Beyonce. Hence the microwave popcorn pop by Katy, Gaga and Rihanna....it's the era for it and once Rihanna can put out those hits consistently she just might last.

Now to her