The U.S. is the biggest and most significant music market in the world. If your shit flops in the the U.S., then your shit has flopped…period. It's embarrassing that sales from all territories have to be added up to counterbalance her dismal sales in the U.S.; home of the label she's signed to. Her deal is with an American record label, and she's based out of the States. When she underperforms here, there is no white-washing it.

Point blank:
- Rihanna has released 6 albums; none of them topped the U.S. Billboard 200.
- Talk That That debuted with *only* 197k -- during the week of Black Friday.
- Talk That That was only in the top 10 for 2 week.
- "We Found Love" has been the #1 single for two months, and yet that still hasn't been enough to drives sales of the album its cut from.

After a month, Talk That That has only managed to sell approx. 365k units (some acts do twice that in a week.) What the hell kind of pop "star" can't do better than this rinky-dink pebble shit? And during the Christmas season too. I mean, wasn't that the whole point of releasing it when she did...so that she could grab holiday sales?! Fail.

Try as you might to create a diversion by clinging to extraneous BS like UK/Worldwide tidbits; you're not fooling anyone and you're not altering the dismal reality. Face the truth: Nobody wants her shit if it costs more than the price of a single on iTunes.

The bottom line is that Talk That That is a motherfucking flop album.

Deal with it.