In reply to SLAY_HIVE.

Actually her stans are here for her ballads, you see Diamonds and Stay? Rihanna ballads are not generic. If they are, so are Beyonce's. They slayyyyy. Aren't all of Beyonce's #1s uptempo songs? Crazy In Love, Baby Boy, Single Ladies, hell even Irreplaceable is not completely a ballad..? How come that most of Rihanna albums are more critically acclaimed than Bey's?

Her songs spent more weeks but Rihanna #1s easily outsell them, even her top 10s singles. All her #1s went at least 2xPlatinum. Is Crazy in Love there, Baby Boy, still struggling to get there?

Rihanna has never sampled an entire song like Beyonce did, she just samples some parts of them. So Don't Stop The Music is not a complete rip off. And talking about impact, I don't think so. Umbrella made bigger cultural impact than any of your fav's songs. We Found Love is there too. Even if Rihanna had the best song in the world you would never give her credit for that. There is not a music competition without at least 2 Rihanna's songs. So spare me that bullshit that her music is generic and forgettable when that is not true. She may have some generic songs but so does your fav, what's a big deal?

Wasn't Beyonce sued so many times for plagirism, copying and lying about writing credits? If Rihanna is a Madonna wannabe, Beyonce is a Tina Turner wannabe. I prefer to be the most successful female artist of all time than the average one. As you can see many people try to copy Rihanna and her sound, you have Rita Ora, Paige Thomas, Willow Smith etc. I can assure you that she is the biggest star in my country and that all singers here are copying her fashion, especially hairstyle and sound.

I don't hate Beyonce at all, but you need to be realistic and stop shading Rihanna when your fav and her are the biggest black starts in the game. Bey's stans were first to come to this post and bash Rihanna and how long it took her to get Platinum and calling her album a flop despite outselling your favs last album in 5 months and still charting very well in all countries. If Rihanna is a singles artist, so is Beyonce. Aren't like 70% of her total records sold singles and 30% albums? Yeah, so? An album artist is someone like Mariah Carey, Madonna, Whitney Houston, people who sold more albums and singles. Rihanna and Beyonce are not among them, sorry. Have a nice time ;)