Madonna vs Rihanna

[baymad4her 1,989]

Rihanna is now the biggest selling female artist in the UK 

[tricky ricky 580]

biggest selling singles artist maybe but not albums ..im not surprised at one point she was releasing singles like every month and im not even being sarcastic 

[tricky ricky 580]

On 12/5/2017 at 6:01 PM, Mp1992 said:

Not true. Madonna will definitely remain the best selling female artist ever when it comes to ALBUMS since no one buys albums anymore. Madonna has sold over 200 million ALBUMS alone, I dont see any female artist selling 200 million PURE albums. Has Rihanna even sold 50 million albums worldwide?

no 

[baymad4her 1,989]

Rihanna has apparently sold more in singles yes but then Rihanna would collaborate with anyone and what do they mean by sales as streaming isn't a pure sale

[tricky ricky 580]

how does rihanna do touring ? 

[baymad4her 1,989]

46 minutes ago, tricky ricky said:

how does rihanna do touring ? 

Certainly nothing like Madonna that's for sure

[WCD199317 65]

If you remember for Rihanna, when she started her career (during 2005-2006), Rihanna was hugely compared of Beyonce of her look and her music and all the critics and the public label cited that she have a one hit wonder with her two first albums. Her third album is she when she have her black habit during The Good GIrl Gone Bad album and progressivly she started to distant the Beyonce style of her music. Her fourth album, Rated R, was really the album then she have her own style of her music. She is also the album that she have more control of her songs and have her word to say about her music and her songs and was her most acclaimed album critical success to date (but with less success in public to Good Girl Gone Bad and A Girl Like Me). This album easily compared to the album The Velvet Rope by Janet Jackson, because of her dark tone and the way she faced in her emotionnal pain in her songs (the whole album talk about toxic relationship and domestic violence and this album as intimate and personal for her). She risk everything about this album, at a time when her fame have not established like today. And unlike her three first albums, she was the main writer of this album, writting nine of the thirteen tracks of the album (and the exclusive producteur of this album and all the albums after Rated R). And if you have her artistics albums later of her career, if because of Rated R, a declaration of her independance of her creative process in music and her career. Rated R changed totally the way you look in her music.