Hard Times For Both RiRi & Chris Brown!

Looks like Chris Brown may have destroyed both of their careers!
One personal violation just wasn't enough!
It seems neither Rihanna or Chris has been able to "comeback" with their new albums.
To date, RiRi has only sold 571,733 copies of her newest disc Rated-R. Meanwhile, Chris has done far WORSE, only pushing 258,184 copies of Graffiti.
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Re: LadyGagaQueenOfMusic – Beat the fuck out of her again? Though I dont condome violence, that shit was hilarious!!!!! lol!
These 'kids' dropping new albums every six months with absolutely nothing to say….So what do they do, draw on their personal lives which in the case of Rihanna and CB, are quite depressing when you think about it…'Umbrella' now that was a happy song with a nice hook…Unfortunately, there are only so many good leftover decent songs after Jay-Z's current #1 Beyonce has had her pick…As for Chris Brown I can never support a 'man' who beats the shiznet out of a woman for any reason…
Actually RATED R has sold 1.3 million copies worldwide, she sold a million in a month and she shipped another million in USA. Get your facts straight fat boy, Rated R was also praised by critics, the album is good, the fact that you don't like it proves it.
Rated R is an amazing album that showcases the real artist Rihanna can be, she left me speechless. Just amazing, not for the bubble gum pop crowd she conquered with her last album, this is a bit more mature, it's just better, anyone with good taste would appreciate it.
Re: Boobootew – LOL Beyonce's songs are horrible. Rated R is a good album and critics agree, so was GGGB, you should listen to her albums first.
Chris Brown didn't ruin her career.the slut acting tramp ruined her own career.Seems to me she needs someone to save her from herself.That spanking he gave her should have come from the parents when she was growing up as I heard she was a street walker back in her home place before making it.She was given a retrieve after she and Chris had the falling out, from the media.Chris is the only one suffering with his career from this and now I'll bet he knows she wasn't worth it.
Re: Kortni Kline – What are you smoking???? Rihanna has five number 1s according to BILLBOARD and 2 million? she has sold 15 million worldwide in 5 years. Beyonce has sold 19 million in 7.
I love Rihanna and was looking forward to a strong come-back and when her first single came out i was sooo disapointed!! She is who she is for her strong dance pop hits. She needs to stick to the basics. Remember what got her their in the first place.
Chris brown was actually pretty decent but because of what he did i dont think that i could ever support him again.
Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you …don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it." -
RIRI HAS NO CLASS.Chris shows more class by not spreading she had herpes is why he probably snapped on her.Although he was advised to do so,he didn't do it and now he'll pay the price.Have you seen the nude picture of her? slut
Re: imjustnoisy – Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you …don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it." -
I miss Chris as he would have really been great for all the award shows honoring Michael Jackson.
Yep, they both chucked it all when they showed so little regard for their careers and messed up last year's Grammy's.
She hurt them both! If she wasn't going through his phone acting like she owned him and hitting him first this mess might have never happened. If she knew he was cheating all she had to do was dump him. PERIOD! No she pervoked him until he lost it. Yes he should have walked away but you never know until you have been there what you will do. Now she is riding on coat tails as the battered girl friend BS she is as much to blame as he is! And both albums are terrible! At least he has talent!
dont blame CB. his album is great, Rihannas album is great. they both should sell more than a mill.. but surprisingly.. they dont even get near a mill compared :S
Re: thefear2 – Didn't say they were all good songs…Beyonce's latest had a lot of drab filler too…The fact that it was nominated for TEN Grammys and won six just dumbfounds me…But artists seem to get 'em in bucketloads these days and that's just the way it is…The fact that critics like RiRi's album doesn't mean diddly if it's not connecting with the people…Not knocking her, she's a beautiful young woman but there comes a point where talent needs to step up to the looks…I've seen her perform live on both Ellen and Oprah and well, let's just say she didn't blow me away…Oh, and I've listened to her album and like a previous poster stated she should stick to what she can handle which is simple pop fluff…You don't grow up and become a woman in six months…But both of them are so afraid of losing their place in the 'Fame' line that they crap out this stuff on a CD expecting the masses fill their coffers and not smell the stank…I'll pass!!!
Everything will work out for Chris Brown. He is talented.
Rihanna has no musical talent at all. Her album sucked.
her latest lp is a big flop bcuz it sux!!! don't blame everything on chris brown. I mean, i'm not a fan but don't act as if he's public enemy nr. 1…aaand if rihanna hadn't act like a "i'm-a-tough-bitch" chick, her comeback would have been better!!!
I'm guessing it's cuz her album really sucks???? I like one song on her album…
Guys, please note that when they say CERTIFIED PLATINUM they mean that the record company has SHIPPED 1 Million copies to stores. The number that have actually been sold is a just under 600,000., so technically, she's only gone gold. Which is a shame cause RR is a pretty decent album.
Riri should be ok
Its gonna be ok riri
This is such a ridiculous post! Do you really think Chris Brown has something to do with her lack of talent?!!! PLease, give us a break! First, we don t really know what happened between her and Chris…Yes, what he has done to her is wrong but let's admit it, R. is no angel either. So yes, she was phisically abused but I can t see why this could possibly affect her career since it has nothing to do with her abilities to sing and dance. In addition, after the Chris Brown drama, she received support from lots of her fans who took her side and from all the big names in the music industry who took her side too…These big names have also played a huge role in the creation of her new album…Unfortunately, people do not like her new album…just because the style is not the same. This has nothing to do with Chris Brown, so Perez, please, stop taking her side all the time and stop trying to find lame excuses for her lack of talent! The only thing she seems to be able to do these days is wearing slutty outfits to get photographed…You know, that s what celebrities start to do when their career is over!
too much time spent on looks, not enough on music. Simple as that. One hit wonder out, another one in
I didn´t listen to him anymore because I can´t respect him. But her album is not great either. I like a couple of songs but no enough to buy the album. Maybe my expectations were too high….I don´t know…
You can'st blame Chris for everything! Riri is responsible for her own shitty album. This girl is so overrated by you.. You can't call that shit 'music'!
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No, what chris did to her had nothing to do with her lack of talent. I like Rihana, I do but lets nt kid ourselves ,she is nothing more than okay in terms of talents.
Can I do better? no but i'm not a 'singer'.
Her music has no substance.
Re: jemama12 – Well said.
whatever he has done (it was WRONG) you canot deny his talent.
chris brown screams to mutch 4 my taste
he has talent, but there is no good moment to listen to his songs
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How many albums did your Slimy bastard sell? What a discovery Mario, your record label must be the envy of the music industry, lmao. Why don't you give us an update on your label? Sure haven't heard much about it from you. Another failure to add to your list? And did you and Slimy have a bitch slap fight? All your promoting couldn't save him/her, fail, fail and fail again.
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Lol only 500k for Riri…its been like 2 months. Beyonce sold 500k in her first week.
But i ain't gonna write Rihanna off, 'Hard' is in the top 10. So people thinking Rihanna is dead and gone, bitch hell no! Even though Gaga and Beyonce are killing the game, Ri ri can still catch up.
Yeah well, If many stores would have sold Chris album and not blacklisted it he would have sold alot more albums then Rihanna. Chris is a raw talent, end of story.
Rihanna's album R Rated is amazing. I didnt liek much of her old stuff. But as soon as i hard a few songs of this album i decided to buy it. And it is amazing. One of the only few albums i have where i can listen to and love the whole album. People just arent giving it ago.
I refused to buy Rihanna's album. Due to the fact she only started speaking out about how hard it all was, how scared she was etc etc while promoting her album at the same time.
What Chris Brown did was sick but using her domestic abuse to shift albums is sicker.
Re: poosie – she's gifted? at what, dressing skanky? lol.
Rhianna CD sucks.She only has 5 good songs.Chris Brown CD is actually a lot better but he fucked his self so nobody will listen.
no wonder.. i really liked rihanna until she turned into that goth monster. cut the crap and start makin GOOD music again hun', cuz this is just too much…ummmm… whining!
and who is that chris brown anyway? o.o
her album tanked bcz it sucks and she has no talent.
his album tanked bcz he hit her.
not that very hard to figure out.
I think the General Public is over her "Look @ Me, I'm a Slut" persona. I know, I am.
I'm sorry, but Chris didn't beat the talent out of her….she was lacking it from the start.
Rhianna has a horrible whiny voice & she looks like a boy. She has always been an attention whore. Chris hit her cuz she provoked him by throwing his car keys down the street. She has a reputation for being a violent person herself. In other words, she asked for it. There are 2 sides to every story. She dates violent men cuz they're the only ones who will put up with her tired old shit. And Chris has no talent whatsoever. They can both just go to hell.
I hope the record label drops Chris Brown so we never have to hear his squeaky voice ever again (or look at his Chimp face).
chris brown DID NOT ruin rihanna career, she did that herself
No surprise there… Chris's CD bombed out of pure consequence. Yes, he still has fans… but not enough to make him a chart topper like he used to be. What he did was not only wrong but unforgettable. The public will never forget that sad sad picture of Rihanna's face, and that will forever haunt Chris's career. As for Rihanna, her album isn't flying off the shelves like the old days because she lots fans as well. She never really spoke out against domestic violence and as a result she lost the respect of so many women. Her interview (months after the fact) was touching, but it wasn't enough. Too little to late. Both albums are average, but neither has what it takes to override that awful event from the listeners minds.
Rihanna´s album sucks big time, that´s why she sold so few of them!
Oh and BTW to those of you still sticking up for Chris, ya'll are disgusting! Rihanna may be dressing slutty, dressing goth, etc… but remember she is still the victim. Stop blaming her for reading her cheating bf's texts. There is NEVER EVER a logical reason to beat on someone you love (or anyone for that matter). Chris is going through therapy to learn this, maybe some of you need therapy as well. Those of you still defending Chris clearly have a screw or two loose and I can only hope that someday you realize it. Someone's talent should never absolve them from their crimes… that is just pure nonsense. Those of you who still support celebrities who have no moral values are a big problem in this society.
OR their albums sucked ass and that's why no one wanted to buy them!
oh and this isnt just chris' fault !
so just stop bullshiting perez and write something good for once -.-
people would buy the albums if they wanted to no matter what happened between those two!!
Well, my kids, ages 18 and 16, and I were pretty turned off by her year-long milking of the domestic violence episode. She kind of went on and on and on about it. Also, they just don't like her music! They quit listening to Chris Brown BECAUSE he beat her up though.
Yeah because Rihanna changed and shes gross now.
Re: Boobootew –
"These 'kids' dropping new albums every six months with absolutely nothing to say."
Uh..GOOD GIRLS came out in 2007…RATED R in 2009.
Re: iloveaguilera – agreed. these stats are wrong. like most things he posts. Let me guess…he's afraid she's going to steal some of Gaga's thunder now that everyone's making fun of her two-tone (looked nicotine stained) hair style from the grammy's….so he's gotta find a way to try to make Ri look bad. Guess what? she is STILL more successful than Perez or Chris Brown….both HOMOS. haha.
She ruined her own career by talking about Chris beating her up at every chance she got! She had the country's sympathy then she seemed like she was using the incident to her advantage just for publicity! It back fired BC everyone knew that's what she was doing!
Really Good News ;pp
they both suck. time for both to go away.
I can't speak for Chris Brown's album, only heard the single off it. Rhianna though? Come on, no one "ruined" her career but herself…he has nothing to do with it. She made her album the way she wanted to and it didn't do so good. If his WAS/IS good - I'd say it probably didn't do so well because everyone threw mud at him after what happened.
half of her album is pretty good… the other half is all about Chris Brown and its really depressing. It's REALLY dark… but I'm surprised it's not doing well
I bought it I liked her new album its actually the first one i ever bought!!
rihanna is a hot sexy fiery mama. i love this bitch so much. she is fierce and hard is her best single to date. prove she's just getting better. peace riri. ps perez she's sold more than that and will sell more than that. get real comparing her to beat-her-down.
THEY'LL BE FLIPPIN BURGERS AT MCDONALD'S
GO AHEAD TAKE MORE DRUGS… LOSERS
Lying ass RiRi can only blame herself for this one. Brown is far more talented and has paid his dues for screwing up. The bitch lied through her teeth on the interview when she said she never heard the song he did for her. Seriously Perez grow up and get a clue.
i doubt it was the incident that damaged her sales, but obviously it would have affected him
you dumb shit she has sold almost 4 million worldwide, the 571,733 units is what she has sold in the US that does NOT include all the other countries throughout the world. i like your site, but sometimes you are such a dumb piece of shit
Rihanna's new music is just horrible.
Bah. She's just one good CD or radio hit away from those big numbers. It's all about the tunes. In the meantime she can fill in the blanks and pull in bank with dogged touring.
Chris Brown u suck i was ur fan not anymore!! U messed up RiRi's music its all sad but lol u also messed up ur career!
Her album does suck. Chris isnt that great either, but at least he's talented.
HAHAHA DONT BLAME CHRIS..THATS HER OWN FAULT FOR NOT TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH OF WHAT WENT DOWN THAT NITE..SHE SHLD OF KEPT HER MOUTH SHUT LIKE HE DID,NO OFFENSE.
Seriously?! Cuz i brought Chris Brown CD and it was great. It didn't even cross my mnd to purchase Rihanna's simply because she ruined Chris's career by being a selfish *itch and forcing him to fight back. The only reason people didn't buy Chris Brown cd iz because they still think he started it and Rihanna's the victum. But that's not true! Chris Brown had to defend himself. WE see now who his real fans iz, da people who actually bought his CD, and the people who only liked him cuz he was cute or sumthin.
Uhm, since when is it a failure to sell 571,000 + CD's? Perez, how many of your acts sell that many units? I think Rihanna and her handlers knew that there was a chance that she might sell less CD's if she took the bold departure that she took, for the sake of art. STOP PRINTING STUFF LIKE THIS. It's reductive and mean, Bitch.
Re: Fashionstar117 – Re: blubabiecutie –
Two ignorant pathetic females. Always gotta blame the victim cause u wanna suck the guy. Just pathetic.
But it doesn't matter cause Rihanna is platinum and chris isn't and never will be. He ruined his career and hes DONE!
uhmm. Chris Brown has NOTHING to do with Rihanna's fail.
your precious RiRi did THAT herself.
besides not too many people like her new Goth-Emo theme now. We likes her better when she was younger. like when she sang SOS or w.e the hell she sings.
Her album sucks and looking like a trashy ho sure isn't helping the situation. She needs to reevaluate and go back to what worked for her in the past and build on that, instead of breaking it down.
Perhaps if she didn't look like a pug or sing like shit, well, the numbers would be higher. When will this country learn… esp. the youth of this country… that what sells a "singer" these days… unfortunately… is how he or she is marketed, what they look like, and the computer generated music their autotuned voice "sings" to. Sad. Sad sad sad. We need better, REAL musicians.
Re: gymkata –
EXACTLY. How do these people who can not sing actually become singers? I would love my own shot!!! LMAO
Poor CHRIS BROWN……i feel all sympathy for him. He just cant catch a break. His future was so bright and now it looks as if his career is over just as it is getting started. This little……blip..in history hopefully will fully go away. I feel no sympathy for rihanna though.(notice the lowercasing of her name…so umimportant) Maybe if she stopped dressing so weird and thinking that playing the victim will get her sympathy sells then MAYBE she would actually have a chance. Thats what she gets…….
ya who buys cds nemore?
Re: gypsysmama – Rihanna is growing as an artist. She doesn't want to go back to what works and she's taking chances. I think that is commendable. I think it's really sad that people say "She should do what works for her"…and stuff of that nature. The thing is, would U as an artist want to do the same thing over and over? If you do, than that's quite sad IMO. Whatever. Rihanna took chances with this album. It's dark, edgy and a little harder for the public to take. If she wanted to make an album that would appeal to the masses I'm sure she would have made Good Girl Gone Bad 2 or would have copied what everyone else is doing and go the oh-so-hot-right-now electro-pop route. Obviously, she didn't want to do that. She said this record was the record she wanted to make, not the record she was pushed to make. So people who are saying her albums sucks clearly can't appreciate and artist who is taking risks and going down a path of their own. The album IS good and anyone who listened with an open mind would appreciate the production, lyrics and overall emotional depth and growth she has made with this album. It's crazy how anyone could say that. The album is brilliant and there is not one horrible song on it (but she could have done w/o "Stupid in Love" which though a decent song sounds out of place and drags the album down).
rihanna s album didn t sell because it sucks .. and chris brown s album didn t sell cuz a lot of ppl now hate him…evn though his album is great and he REALLY IS TALENTED !
and btw those 258,184 copies were sold on the first week .
As of January 2010, Rated R had sold 1,500,000+ copies and received five Platinum certifications and three Gold. — that is what is said on wikipedia about rihanna's album .
Perez, how dare you say this. Everybody in the world but you knows that Rihanna is a man beating, stiletto-weilding alcoholic who started every altercation she has ever been in. You look like a hard core racist-sexist trying to blame a black man for everything.
Rihanna destroyed her career. Men know she's a lying man-beater and they won't have anything to do with her. Her hairdos are atrocious. There is no soul in her eyes, no real woman to connect with, just a moving mannequin propped up by a recording company hoping to make a profit hawking the worst form or jungle radical feminism their is in the streets of Harlem.
Wow, whats with all the Rihanna hate?
What the fuck has this girl ever done to you people?
Rated R is an amazing album, and just because most people on here have no depth and maturity to grasp an album so great, doesnt mean it sucks. GGGB sucked, with annoying, repetitive songs. Rated R is classic, mature and is who she is now.
And LOL at all you jealous bitches calling her a whore. Do any of you stupid females even know what a whore IS??? We know nothing of her sex life and who she sleeps with to be calling her a whore and a slut. How sad. You dont need to be mad because no matter what your ugly and most likely fat asses do you will NEVER look as good as she does. Why would someone with a body SO flawless NOT dress like she does? Are you all braindead? Shes a stunning, young woman and has a perfectly hourglass shape with a great ass and legs for miles? Jealous? Be jealous you stupid hoes. If ANY of you mad bitches look anywhere NEAR Rihanna's looks and body, you'd be walking around naked. And guess what, you calling her a whore and slut wont make her ugly, she's still stunning and still has a rockin body and you still look like shit and no amount of hating will EVER change that.
Shes still richer and better looking than of any jealous skanks will ever be. Go concentrate on making YOURSELF better than sitting here dissing a STUNNING girl who did nothing to anyone and all does is sing. Get a fucking life you stupid stupid girls.