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Originally Posted by Smithy

You can hardly compare album sales of someone who had two massive hits with someone who had the biggest mess of an era ever. The rest of Beys albums have all outsold rihanna because she could promote properly. The only thing rihanna surpasses Beyonce at is the hot 100, Beyonce (and the rest of the main pop girls) surpass her in every other aspect. From overall artistry to commercial and critical success, Rihanna will forever be the bridesmaid.

And just an FYI 4 sold just under 2 million and TTT just over 3 so it's not a 2 million difference

Beyonce may have had a messed up era, but Rihanna was named the most illegally downloaded singer from summer '11 to summer '12 and she still surpassed Beyonce in terms of single and album sales.

The only Bey album to outsell all of Rihs is DIL which according to wikipedia has sold 11mil, GGGB has sold 9mil (according to chartnews) and Bday and IASF have sold 7mil

and TTT has sold over 4 and a half million