lets please stay current,

the fact of the matter is only about 5 artist have sold more than 3 million albums world wide from the last year.

adele, lady gaga, michael buble, coldplay, rihanna. i might be missing one or two but that is not that many, and rihanna is the only black artist still doing it big and has been the only black pop artist doing it big. (beyonce is debatable of being pop or r&b).

also with rihanna being on a 360 deal, and still making 53 million, that means she had to of made somwhere around 100 million from last year, before the cost of tour and making an album and so on. thats just an estimate. you people keep insisting that half of rihannas money goes to the label so that means rihanna was able to generate about 100 million which is more than alot of artist.