January 2-8: Rihanna: The Top Selling Digital Artist Of All Time

there comes a time when i just click on articles to read the comments below it...

Lady Gaga can sing better than most singers on that list *side eyes* Rihanna, Katy Perry, Britney Spears.

There are still good singers today just only not as popular or discovered.

Lots of artists today are only famous because they are "hot" "sexy" or "beautiful" on the outside but when they sing live they suck even if the song is catchy. If auto tune was illegal there wouldn't be Rihanna, Ke$ha, Katy Perry,etc. They don't have great voices like Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, etc.

Did she get so excited that she jumped out of her pants?

Rihanna is a pop singer not R&B.

Image is everything, catchy tunes, relatable, that's all an artist need these days,

temptation, earth wind and fire, gap band, stevie wonder, smokey robinson, luther vandross, teddy p, etc that was music.

We Found Love's lyrics are really repetitive. why is this crap popular????

This is just my opinion.... but can the media stop focusing on this mind-rotting useless crap and start focusing on serious matters like the fact that the middle class may soon to stop being in existence. I'm a 16 year old kid that is actually tired of hearing about these celebrities that in no way influences my future in a positive way and I want to hear about the problems that the U.S. has and what we are doing to fix them....

Today's popular music is garbage and she is no exception. These punks don't even write their own music. They are just puppets who use technology to stay in tune.

Nice record, but I hear Chris Brown is close to beating it.

For the record, I have never bought ANYTHING from Rihanna.

Music isn't the same anymore but its not dead cause its still selling.

I'm 25 but I am proud to have grown up when I did because I had so much more access to music. I remember scouring the internet for MySpace bands, turning the radio 0.2 and finding lesser known stations, searching through store soundtracks to find cool music. I also got exposed to international bands from places like Iran and Romania. I'm glad the soundtrack to my late teenhood/early 20s is so individualized. This would be much less possible if I grew up in a different time. As for mainstream music, I think the 80s beat out any decade.

Her fans are tone deaf-- my dog can howl better then she can sing

it always surprises me the number of "music critics" that declare hugely successful performers as talentless. i don't care for Aretha Franklin's singing. does that mean she is talentless? and why would a rapper be listed amomg singers? some of the rap "music" is catchy, but is it music? sounds like recitation to me. can p.diddy or whatever he calls himself now actually carry a tune? i don't mean that as a criticism. i hope he continues to be successful-.
btw who would you critics consider more talented: Beethoven or Mozart? personally, i like Vivaldi better. Brahms could put you to sleep, which i thimk he intended to do

guys she's giving a performance... it's a costume that doesn't need pants. Beyonce wore an identical costume for her glastonbury performance and you weren't asking about her #$%$ pants

This chick is the biggest no talent I've ever seen. I saw here with Eminem on a music awards show. She he had to sing one f...in line of music with barely any jump in range and she still couldn't sing in tune. Please get this no talent off the stage!!!!!!

Each generation gets dumber then the previuos one...the fact that these idiots are Idol's proves it. This dipsh1t is proud that she beat out teo other dipsh1ts????? Thats like a dope addict millionaire being proud of the fact that he has a nicer house than the homeless guy down the street and the lady with the 32 cats next door.