Bajan born pop star Rihanna earns her 6th platinum selling album of her career.
Trinidad born Nicki Minaj also has one platinum selling album entitled, “Pink Friday” which was her second released album.
Back to Ri Ri, due to the current boost in social media and music sharing sites like You Tube and SoundCloud, album sales are not what they use to be. However, Rihanna managed to beat the odds and just earned her sixth million selling album in the U.S. this week.
The Diamonds’ singer’s latest album Unapologetic was certified platinum this week according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
Unapologetic, which was released last year and sold 9,000 copies in the week ending May 26th, pushing it past the million mark.
Unapologetic, was also her first number one on the Billboard 200 chart, after scoring numerous top ten debuts.
In recent times Rihanna’s troubled relationship with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown has been the center of attention. Just earlier this week Chris Brown’s bro Kid Red took some Twitter blows at the bajan born singer while Amanda Bynes allegedly took a twitter blow as well.
But as the old saying goes
“sticks and stones may break my bones but words they cannot hurt me”
as Rihanna’s talent “shines bright like a diamond” despite the negativity that currently surrounds her.Check out the video "Stay" off the above mentioned album:
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