@LAX re: Feb 21,11:08 am --

Let's get this right:

I'm NO Nicki Minaj fan. Neither am I a Lady Gaga fan! I think I can safely say, you'll NEVER find me buying a CD/concert ticket to hear/see either!

That said, facts ARE the "facts": "Pink Friday" with a mere recent announcement of her coming London tour dates jumped some 94-places on the U.K. Top 100 chart - where it now currently resides at #36.

I said it before, I'll say it again: Nicki Minaj is T-H-E new "IT GIRL". Your fave had her 7-year run. "Rated R" was THE "definitive test" for Rihanna/Brand Rihanna, and she FAILD; "Rated R" on purely a ROI (return on investment) basis has FAILED. And lest we for get that she wasn't heard from UNTIL that Diane Sawyer 20/20 interview which pulled 8-something Million empathizing, curious viewers; STILL, 'Rated R' FAILED!

Nicky Minaj will do to Rihanna what she's ALREADY done to her, here in the U.S., make her irrelevant by dwarfing her CD sales.

Again: I'm NO Nicki Minaj, NOR Lady Gaga fan - not today, not yesterday, not tomorrow - but the facts ARE the "facts"!!

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