Neyo was absolutely talking about Rihanna. All I can do is laugh at you fools who think that her selling only 2.7 million WW is a *good* figure. She's supposed to be a pop star, right? And -- if you let her silly fans try to tell you -- one of the biggest…but her album has sold less than 1 million in the US and less than 3 million abroad?! The fuck is THAT? Rihanna's sales ain't shit. Hell, even her Loud album that her fans love to brag about didn't move any numbers that impressed me.

A real pop star who has hits left and right doesn't stall at Gold or Platinum. In amongst their scoring big hits, their albums should go **at least** 3x platinum in the U.S. and accumulate sells upwards of 10 million+ WW. Rihanna doesn't move those numbers because she's every bit the 'singles' artist Jason Deuerlo (or however you spell his name) is.

The bottom line is that few trusts Rihanna's albums to be worth spending a $10 on, and so they just go to iTunes and download single after single for cheap. That she can't even inspire large first weeks sales or score a #1 album tells a bigger story than her fans let on. Yeah, sure, continuous sales over an extended period of time is important...but that shit comes from casual or non-fans, who hesitantly pick it up when they're out and remember to, and if it's convenient at that moment. She doesn't inspire a massive wave of people to drop what they're doing and make copping her album a priority…which is what a leading pop star is SUPPOSED to do. If Rihanna's fanbase was strong, her sales would immediately avalanche the competition, but that never happens with her.

Same can be said for Katy Perry. Bitch scored 5 or 6 #1 singles and is a radio darling, but the album they're from is only 2x platinum? And it took forever for it to reach THAT much. Katy scored more hits from her album than Backstreet Boys and Nsync did at their peaks, and yet they went diamond and sold like 30+ million WW...while she only narrowly makes it to 2x platinum and probably didn't sell more than 5 million WW. That's pathetic.

Katy's and Rihanna's albums SHOULD be at the very least 4-5x platinum in the U.S. and seeing worldwide sales of 15+ million. Their numbers are not impressive, or even good. I wouldn't be surprised if despite all the surface singles success and exaggerated hype, their record labels don't actually make a real profit off these whores albums...which is why Rihanna has to continually record and release new albums every year, just so that the label can see some kind of cash flow from her.

This is happening because, again, few takes this current wave of pop stars seriously and people don't trust their albums to be worth the money, and so they download and download and download and call it a day. All I can say is that every pop star who debuted before 2006-2008 and sold REAL numbers should be grateful that they didn't emerge during this jokey social networking era.