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The official Rihanna thread
Topic Started: Dec 31 2007, 08:02 PM (16,740 Views)
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Actually that's not true, the chart has had a much lower turnover rate at #1 since the dawn of Nielsen SoundScan.

Madonna not having more #1s is WB's fault, not Billboard's. A US single release for ITG would have easily given her another #1, and a single release for BS would have given that song a huge chance at hitting #1. And then there's the DCFMA debacle. A regular A/B-side single on top of the Maxi and a much more timely release would have likely taken that song to #1.

And of course not repressing the digital release of 4M literally screwed that song out a Hot 100 #1 peak. It was still new on radio and didn't have enough aud imp for the chart. It was #1 in sales, but not by a wide enough margin. Literally giving it just one extra week of exposure before sending it to iTunes would have made the first week sales big enough for it to glide to #1.
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What I mean is that Madonna was SO huge back in the 80s, I think that quite a few more of her singles would've gone to #1 rapidly on iTunes, if such a thing had existed back then.

I could be wrong, but that's my take.
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Oh of course, I thought you just meant chart rules or whatever, my bad.

Madonna and MJ would have truly dominated 80s iTunes.
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Oh well, the upside is that Rihanna/Perry etc will never come close to their album sales and legacy.
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She's already going to pass Madonna in no time. She's now beaten Janet. Mariah is going to be next. Rihanna's been around for about 6 years, and she's already broken Madonna's previous record.
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so the album's supposed to be out in less than two weeks, and literally nothing else about it has leaked, not even a tracklist. apparently she was still recording tracks as recently as a few days ago? :manson: she's also sick or something - she tweeted a picture of her with an IV in her arm at a hospital recently, and has had to cancel a few European concert dates.

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STANDARD TRACKLIST:
1. You Da One
2. Where Have You Been
3. We Found Love
4. Talk That Talk
5. Cockiness (Love It)
6. Birthday Cake
7. We All Want Love
8. Drunk On Love
9. Roc Me Out
10. Watch n' Learn
11. Farewell

DELUXE:
12. Red Lipstick
13. Do Ya Thing
14. Fool In Love
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Nov 3 2011, 04:04 AM
She's already going to pass Madonna in no time. She's now beaten Janet. Mariah is going to be next. Rihanna's been around for about 6 years, and she's already broken Madonna's previous record.
She'll pass Madonna in US #1 singles. That's it. She won't pass her in anything else. Ever.
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But remember Riv, people have already forgotten Madonna and MJ because of Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
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Nov 5 2011, 02:16 AM
But remember Riv, people have already forgotten Madonna and MJ because of Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
:lmao: :lmao: (Yes I know you're being sarcastic).
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Nov 5 2011, 12:16 AM
STANDARD TRACKLIST:
1. You Da One
2. Where Have You Been
3. We Found Love
4. Talk That Talk
5. Cockiness (Love It)
6. Birthday Cake
7. We All Want Love
8. Drunk On Love
9. Roc Me Out
10. Watch n' Learn
11. Farewell

DELUXE:
12. Red Lipstick
13. Do Ya Thing
14. Fool In Love
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

What awful song titles! "Cockiness (Love It)"! :lmao:
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is that the official tracklist - the song titles are....terrible...

Ive also seen this:

Rihanna’s Talk That Talk Tracklist:

1. We Found Love
2. Manhunt
3. Talk That Talk
4. Trust No One
5. X’s + O’s
6. All Guns Blazin
7. Blunts Rolled
8. Suicide
9. Battle Of Nerves
10. Crossfire

Deluxe Edition:

1. Head
2. Monkey See
3. 707
4. Revolution of the Heart
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Rihanna feat. Madonna?!?

There is this odd rumor doing the rounds that Madonna might have a featuring role on Rihanna's new album. Rihanna herself posted the following tweet on her account a few hours ago:

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#TTT one feature on the album! And we got the best!!!!!


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Beautiful Stranger
Nov 5 2011, 02:16 AM
But remember Riv, people have already forgotten Madonna and MJ because of Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
:lol2: It really does seem that way!
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bulgar
Nov 6 2011, 06:04 PM
Rihanna feat. Madonna?!?

There is this odd rumor doing the rounds that Madonna might have a featuring role on Rihanna's new album. Rihanna herself posted the following tweet on her account a few hours ago:

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#TTT one feature on the album! And we got the best!!!!!


Hmmm....it'll probably turn out to be someone like Drake or Kanye.
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Album previews here:

http://5.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/Oi8vd3d3LnR1bmV0cmliZS5jb20vcHJvZHVjdC9yaWhhbm5hLXRhbGstdGhhdC10YWxrLWV4cGxpY2l0LXZlcnNpb24_aWQ9NTQ2NTY1NiZyZWY9X2lyZl9hcnA%3D&f=norefer
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I`m kinda shocked in a good way.
She went with the caribbean thang... Respect.
Thanks for the link, River!

Well. For me your Gaga is like a Kabuki theater. Masks. No burning soul. All under mask. I prefer real emotions in artists and in people.
This caribbean girl shows her emotion, how she can. Gaga shows Masks.
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The music industry routine of releasing a new album every three to four years is no longer viable, Rihanna's manager has argued.
"Kids want new material all the time," said Jay Brown, who has overseen the singer's career since she signed as a teenager.
"I think you become disposable when you put out an album every three years."
Brown was speaking as Rihanna, 23, prepared to launch Talk That Talk, her sixth album since 2005.
She has sold more the 20 million albums worldwide, recording new tracks in mobile studios as she tours, allowing for an almost unbroken schedule of annual releases.
"It's not like we force her," said Brown. "She goes into the studio because she likes it."
The star's manager, who works for Jay-Z's Roc Nation company, added that he felt albums had become bloated, with unnecessarily long running times.
"Nobody, when they're buying an album, wants to skip over tracks," he said.
"If there are too many songs, you dilute what you're trying to do."
He pointed to Sarah McLachlan's 1997 album Surfacing as an example of an ideally-paced record. The Grammy-winning work featured just 10 tracks and clocked in at a compact 41 minutes.
It was released at a time when record companies, keen to make CDs look like value for money, packed out discs to their maximum, -minute capacity.
More recently, some of the biggest-selling international hits, including Amy Winehouse's Back To Black and Adele's 21, have featured similarly slight running times.
Rihanna has followed suit. Talk That Talk, is just over 35 minutes on the standard edition.
"When we were deciding the tracks to put on there, I wasn't thinking about minutes and seconds," said Brown. "I just wanted to make sure it was all hits."
The album, which was played to journalists in London on Thursday afternoon, continues Rihanna's fusion of eurodance, R&B and reggae.
Early tracks maintain the uptempo club feel of her recent number one single, We Found Love, while the Bajan singer's predilection for raunchy lyrics is unabated on songs such as Roc Me Out and Watch N' Learn.
The record is released by Mercury on 18 November.
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Nov 11 2011, 12:06 AM
"I think you become disposable when you put out an album every three years."

Rihanna has followed suit. Talk That Talk, is just over 35 minutes on the standard edition.
:rotfl: :manson:
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It's pretty easy to release an album a year when a whole team of people write and produce the songs for you...
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