All these huge singles sales, Rihanna 120 millions singles sold, now Pitbull 40 million in an era where most of us download the songs illegally, how are those sales even posible?, i know record labels wants to create a legacy for the new artist but lying to the public is not the way, also is kind of embarrassing to say, she/he has sold 20 million albums and 200 million singles, i mean, albums are always everything about a musician, no matter how you put it, singles sales certainly push their record sales to another level but when you think about album vs singles, it's like nahh, there are still artist who sell albums, so the "we are in the digital era" excuse it's not valid, The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Madonna sold millions of records but once again, they prove my point, they dominated both albums and singles, in an era where it was more difficult to buy singles, singles that were also more expensive than those released digitally. In ten years Rihanna will probably be the best selling artist in the world but it will be something like this.

Rihanna surpasses Madonna/The Beatles/Michael Jackson.

Rihanna - 50 million albums / 1 billion singles.

Madonna - 200 + million albums / 150 million singles.

No shade tho...