Sales of Rihanna’s latest studio set ‘ANTI’ are dire to say the least.
However, the same can’t be said of its Dancehall-kissed cut ‘Work’ which has done its part to push the star’s label to the top of the music industry’s pecking order in the first quarter of 2016.
Good news below…
BEST-SELLING SINGLES IN THE U.K. OF Q1 2016
- “7 Years,” Lukas Graham (Warner) #1 857k
- “Love Yourself,” Justin Bieber (Virgin EMI) #1 668k
- “Stitches,” Shawn Mendes (Virgin EMI) #1 649k
- “Work,” Rihanna f/Drake (Virgin EMI) #2 595k
- “Fast Car,” Jonas Blue & Dakota (Positiva) #2 576k
- “Sorry,” Justin Bieber (Virgin EMI) #1
- “Pillowtalk,” ZAYN (RCA) #1
- “Lush Life,” Zara Larsson (Black Butter/Epic/Ten) #3
- “I Took a Pill In Ibiza,” Mike Posner (Island) #1
- “Light It Up,” Major Lazer f/Nyla (Because) #7
British sales of the single recently made its way to the 595,000 unit mark and joined Justin Bieber‘s ‘Sorry‘ to increase Universal’s share in the singles market.
Which artist ruled the roost on an albums front?
- 25, Adele (XL) #1 406k
- Blackstar, David Bowie (RCA) #1 345k
- Purpose, Justin Bieber (Virgin EMI) #2 269k
- Best of Bowie, David Bowie (Parlophone) #1 220k
- I Cry When I Laugh, Jess Glynne (Atlantic) #1
- A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay (Parlophone) #1
- If I Can Dream, Elvis Presley (Sony Music CG) #1
- Chaos and the Calm, James Bay (Virgin EMI) #1
- Get Weird, Little Mix (SYCO) #2
- Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best of, David Bowie (Parlophone) #5 109k
‘ANTI’ has sold 342,431 units in the U.S. to date.
You know the music industry has officially died when Rihanna can release an illiterate song like Work and it goes straight to #1!
Meanwhile the real hit ‘kiss it better’ is being ignored…I’m baffled
Worry about formation rih already in the record books
you calling work illiterate shows how uneducated and uncultured you are.
Not sure if “illiterate” is the correct term (read or write??). But lyrically the song lacks. It really is to the power of Rihanna. I remember a song called 7/11 that was just as simple and all over the place lyrically but it came and went.
Do you even understand the message of the song? I feel the song is amazing. Saying just enough. I love even more that she released a single representing her roots. Very honest song!
Your p**** is illiterate you have no culture b**** your welfare society have you going to low grade schools black on black crime b**** do not ever come for island culture it’s patois and foreigners have no time for your dumb hood booger ass island people speaks the queen english at the end of the day you sound stupid
Pink Friday 3x platinum ???
Pink Friday Roman Reloaded 2x platinum??
The Pinkprint 2x platinum??
☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕
http://tinypic.com/r/2gw6j6h/9 ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
How much has work sold?
Worldwide
Just furthermore proves that she is a singles artist, and there is nothing wrong with that. I really wish she would have release KIB first with a better video.
Yes I was hoping there would be a part two as well.
Anti hasn’t even sold 100k in the UK? ?
Anti is a godT-damn awful album, LMAO… like CHRIST, it is bad! Only 2 of the songs were remotely listenable. Right now the British Phonographic Industry has only recorded 60,000 shipments in the UK LMFAO, which means its only silver.
I can’t! She’s back to being a singles artist.
KII KII’S FOR YEARS SIS!!!
ABSOLUTE DEATH 343K AFTER HOW MANY MONTHS KIIIII!!!! BISH I DONE FLATLINED FOR THE UPTINTH TIME THIS YEAR!!!!!
Kiss It Better is really the best song on the album its just soo good
If she probably would have just came out with the album without the free downloads she would have been selling a lot. But this is her best album in my opinion right next to rated r. However I don’t think she cares anymore about album sales. I hope she goes on this direction again for her next album . needed me is her best song nonfat album. I’m about to go stream this album while I’m at the gym.
Anti is a solid album, her best effort remains TTT.
Are there any major artist on Wanner? They always seem to beind Universal and Sony.
But did you phaggotts see how @Cinamon T***** DRAGGEDT the H.IV+ yesterday? The meltdowns from @ANUSwig were epic… @cinamon t*****, hunny u better keep dragging these loose bottom fairies
Hi Barb Wire
Kiiii bitxh where did that thing drag??? Can’t drag when you have to stoop to degrading an entire race of people. The self hate in @Cinatard is real. But of course you would laugh at those things it said yesterday! You just mad cause that Shít Stain fad you stan for is no more lol! #PoorDat
DEATHH! AT @Barbwire/FakeLikeLadyAnäl-ga clinging to @cinnabon’s racist comments LMFAOO another hœ needs to be lynched up in here!
Trash,if it wasn’t for that lil Jewish boy the song would be collecting dust along with Flopping better and the navy’s bank accounts because they are hella too broke to buy tickets
342k units??? Kiii that Nazi struggle just won’t let up.. I’m CRYING!!! After years of hype and countless gimmicks, its still not even certified copper. Kiiii… (No one acknowledges the samsung gimmick)
NOT ‘Hi Barb-Wire’ tho LMFAOOOOO!
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EYE AM SCREAMING!!!!
@ANUSwig I’m not barb-wire and your rusty azzz knows that. And NOT at you putting my name on your google alerts, that’s why you were so fast to reply after I left my comments. Honey didn’t u get draggged enough yesterday? MESS
Why is @Slave_to_H.IV’s understudy in my reply box? Ur basic, the H.IV+ phaggs don’t use u honey. Kiii
Your life is tragic
Death!!! Lets not talk about basic when you recycle everyones drags on this site! Kiii at you clinging to @Cinatard guess thats what happens when your fad fav no longer has a stan base #460tease ????
HIEHIRHIRHIRW!!!!! ! LMFAO of all the people this hoé could cling to it chose the weakest bum b*tch on this entire site (excluding herself), EYE AM DECEASED!!!!!!
HIEHIRHIRHIRW!!!!! ! LMFAO of all the people this ä..i..d.s-infected heaux could cling to it chose the weakest bùm b*tch on this entire site (excluding herself), EYE AM DeadTTTTTTT!!!!!!
BISH I FLATLINED AGAIN!!!!
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I can’t at it disappearing from this post in 2.5 seconds after the Hive scalped it .8 mili seconds ????
KIII that weak heaux was so busy bragging about other peoples so-called ‘drags’ (ii.e. racist comments) that she ended getting DRAGGED herself! LMFAO
Ha! These racists bitxhes NEVER WIN!!
Forget the fact that a huge number of people who downloaded the album for free would’ve never spent money out of their own pockets to buy the album on iTunes, or driven to the store and bought it. Forget the fact that when something is free even non-fans will download it, if nothing else for pure curiosity. Forget the fact the album can’t be returned for those who don’t like it, because it’s FREE
BITČH i thought I left your mangled diseased carcass to rot back in january LMFAOOOO, I would really love to know how I got ‘dragged’ by someone who had to result to using racial slurs and troll accounts to back up their point!
How disappointing because had Rihanna put the work in to make an album people could actually enjoy, as she’s done in the past, she could’ve easily earned a number one album the fair way and it would’ve been deserved
YOU WERE DRAGGED! DEAL!!
Lying is a sin!
I can’t at @FakeLikeLadyANÃL-ga seething for an entire year over me SLAUGHTERING her last April. Every time someone mentions me this hœ creeps from underneath the woodwork! You’re as basic as they come!
I Thought Cake Like tire flat flat had died back in 2015…*Takes down Rest In Trash page*
Lmfao at *Takes down Rest In Trash page* ?????
April 13, 2016 at 2:20 pm
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according to riaa, tidal and rihanna its at 1.7mil units sold in the usa alone.
The lieeesss these peasants tell! The Navy forever forging receipts smh…
David clocked their lies in this article tho kii. No chill!
Lmfao these Rihtârds tea is always getting poured out the window! They stay forging receipts! You’d think these basics ass harlets would learn by now.
David says: “‘ANTI’ has sold 342,431 units in the U.S. to date.” #CLOCKED
That’s physical units, if you count streaming plus she is already certified platinum in sales. she’s at 1. 7 million, it doesn’t matter what TGJ says or her haters. She has been recognized by the RIAA (which yall use to drag rihanna). I don’t know why it’s so sad for all of you to understand a simple concept. If Samsung BOUGHT one Million copies of an album then Rih decided to gift them to her fans then that means she has sold a million copies and decided to send the album as an online gift like you can do with iTunes or other outlets. Stop seething and just occupy the Beyonce post because Rihanna is not bothered and she her era is already successful with one single alone. she’s good.
Kiii did Fake Like Lady Gaga’s fallen shít flake already flee the post LMFAOOOO!!!
‘ANTI’ has sold “345K +” units on PURE SALES but if we are to include streaming then it has sold well over “700K +” units. Worldwide, the album is at “1.26 M”.
Yes, the album is a slight underperformance by Rihanna’s standards (in terms of pure sales) but she has still done good this era: a #1 U.S/Global smash with WORK, a 2 week U.S #1 album and she became the most streamed female artist on spotify… Needed Me is creeping up the charts and Kiss it Better just made its debut.
Hopefully #R9 comes back and SMASHES even harder like GGGB, LOUD, TTT or UNA but ANTI is a great album! 🙂
So let me get this straight, Fake Like Gaga thinks that all of those “gorilla”, “orangutan” , and “hoodbooger” comments that Cinnabun made were funny?
Guess it’s safe to say that it’s a self hating racist too.
It’s sad to see so many people focused by numbers of ANTI when the reason why she gave out 1 million albums for free and called the project ANTI was to debunk the traditional pop route. It’s not like she performed the album in front of 114 million people or anything… Oh and a fan of Gaga she be focusing on how to fix Mother Monster’s face, because even Ray Charles can see that the broads’ career is over; I mean Iggy has a better chance of getting another #1
Well, there’s no problem if she really wants to it give for free and have the certification based on streams. But did y’all navy forget that y’all drag Gaga (99 cents), Jay Z’s Samsung, Beyoncé’ s suprise release and drag Nicki’s certification that incLude streams?Did y’all forget that y’all drag Bey selling 310k despite one month leak? And did y’all also said that the reason DIL outpeak FFS was because of stream? Same goes to 7/11? And now you guys celebrate streaming and wondering why we drag her? Anti slightly sold more, with physical release when Bey sold 115k in its second week.
Once again you dense fools keep focusing on the numbers 342k and not the fact she got millions from Samsung. Samsung basically bought her album and the album was used as a promotional too.
I swear it’s like what Tidal is doing is going way over ya’ll heads. Would you rather sell 1 million albums at 30 cent an album or would you rather give your fans an album and pocket 10 million from Samsung. They are basically gonna sponsor her tour and promote her.
But ya’ll are still caught on 342k. Think bigger people.
*promotional tool
How can you call your album Anti, like you are going against the grain, and then cheat your way for sales? The GENERAL PUBLIC does not care about those 1 million copies and neither does Billboard. 1 million people did not spend their valuable time , energy, and, money on that album .
Plus, with the kind of money that Samsung, Roc Nation, and Rihanna has a tactic like that didn’t even create a dent in their pockets.
How is it cheating for sales when she has had 7 platinum albums. She isn’t some new artist or someone who has struggled to sell records.
Ya’ll are just dinosaurs who have not adjusted to the fact that the industry has changed. Albums are basically just promotional tools now for an artist brand. If an artist can form a mutual agreement with a Fortune 500 company to cross promote their product then what’s the problem.
Jay-z did it with Magna Carta Holy Grail. Drake is about to do something with Apple.
Blah blah blah
Anti is an embarrassing FLOP. #B6 will slay her life ?
Y’all do realize that Rihanna gave 1 million copies away for free right? Very few artists can give away 1 million free & still sale another half a million… It’s like y’all keep forgetting that! Ch… Some of your faves couldn’t even get 1 million people to download their album for free!
Exactly. That’s why your name is The Realest.
Sam, David, or Rashad, can one of y’all please make a post on how Drake just got a new tattoo of Rih on his arm? He is such a thirsty nutcase, but I wouldn’t mind if they eventually get married since hws so obsessed with her. He even named his restaurant in Canada after something special pertaining to her.
Well add Universal to the list of co. that Rihanna saved. Dreamworks, Puma, Roc Nation, Tidal and now a whole international lable? QUEEN! Meanwhile Formation still remains chartless.
Can’t wait for this to come out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgcHHvH8Ygw
maybe tmr…
cya
Has Formation finally charted? Wwhere is B6?
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Oh and Rih’s power is saving brands. Most marketable celebrity in the industry, go Rih.
You a b**** ass n****
This whole video had me dying, Camila clearly doesn’t want to be in this group anymore, she looks literally done with it all.
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I don’t think they’ll make it to album #3, they all want to be solo artists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtG8DDCetIk
DC4, 3LW and PCD tease. She can go to be honest, you can tell that she was being pushed as the “lead Vocalist”, yet the people chose the fine chocolate instead.
ANTI has sold 775k including streaming. You barb stans wants to act like TPP would even be platinum without streaming but can’t count Rihanna’s. You’re so childish and stupid. Meanwhile Anti is about to be 2x platinum in the states after a few months. So I will go sip my tea.
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Rihanna is a number 4 feat Drake and congratulations to the number one Artist