Rihanna's "ANTI" Album makes its disappointing debut on Billboard, but she keeps getting the bigger pay though!. The New album, ANTI, was able to get TIDAL one million new subscribers in the span of fifteen hours, as well as 13 million streams for itself, but despite already being certified platinum by the RIAA, it has not landed a #1 debut on Billboard.
According to Billboard and Neilsen, ANTI
culminated with 4.7 million streams for all of its songs, in the week
ending January 28th, led predominantly by (and largely thanks in part
to) the stream of her single "Work." As for downloads, the album only
became available on digital retailers January 29th, and a physical CD
release won't follow until February 5th-- nonetheless, in conjunction
with Samsung, users were able to get a free download of the album.
Those 1.47 million free downloads do not count towards Neilsen Soundscan
sales figures, though (and thus affect Rihanna's rather low chart
position). In terms of actual sales for the album, the number is
reportedly just 460 copies (??!).
Despite starting out at #27,
industry insiders expect RiRi to make a big leap in the coming week,
possibly up to #1, after she's had a full week to ruminate on the web.
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