[Me. I Am Salman]

The parts of the remix which I despise are the "remember when you did it" bit and the "girl i wanna **** you right now" part which chris brown says in the most annoying way possible
the snippet is miles better

[Smithy]

\Radios are refusing to play Rihanna. Jay-Z has parted ways with her. Her new single, Talk That Talk, featuring Jay is about to be pulled from the radios today. Her record company is meeting with her to talk about possibly ending the era because she went behind her team's back to do the remixes with Chris Brown. And on top of that Armani dropped her from the campaign.

obviously should be taken with a pinch of salt, but still

[Jords]

Originally Posted by Glenn

I love the Turn Up The Music remix.

Just heard this. Not bad!

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Smithy

obviously should be taken with a pinch of salt, but still

Found this on another forum

1. Roc Nation tweeted links to the remixes.
2. Talk That Talk to still is being played. Been hearing it all day on z100.
3. Jay Z ain't dumb enough to drop his biggest artists.
4. Armani doesn't care about stuff like this. They put too much money into it.

Looks like it's not true.

[Shaun]

she's such a prick.

[Locke.]

Yeah, there is no way Jay Z is dropping her

[Vladimir]

I still have no idea why she did it, it was totally unnecessary.

[Iceman]

Prefer Turn It Up. Never liked Birthday Cake anyway. Also anyone that didnt see this coming for months is retarded. Have a look at her twitter all the hints are there for months, its not really shocking.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Zee

I don't care how much they try to portray it as "she's forgiving her abuser" - no, she's playing into his hands by giving him his career back.

Um, his career never went anywhere? I mean sure, his reputation suffered, but his music success didn't really change.

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Smithy

obviously should be taken with a pinch of salt, but still

If only that would happen..

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

Um, his career never went anywhere? I mean sure, his reputation suffered, but his music success didn't really change.

-He hasn't had a #1 single since Kiss Kiss in the US
-Between 2009-2012, he has only had one top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100
-He hasn't had a top 5 hit since 2008
-F.A.M.E. sold 700K in the US, and Graffiti sold only 300K in the US. Compare this to his first two albums which were released before he beat up Rihanna, they sold 2 million and 1.9 million respectively. So saleswise he is going down.


His music success has changed massively as you can see.

[Roy Mars III]

actually like the remix, haven't liked anything rihanna has done in two years either what is happening

[Doogle]

Finally listened. The line about him missing her, I shuddered. Awful

Oh I like the end bit with the weird noises over her saying "cake cake cake"

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Prefer Turn It Up. Never liked Birthday Cake anyway. Also anyone that didnt see this coming for months is retarded. Have a look at her twitter all the hints are there for months, its not really shocking.

Aside from the insulting use of the word "retarded" (and as a mod shame on you), not everyone follows these robots on twitter.

[Doogle]

Originally Posted by Billy

An album this year? She needs to go for awhile

Reading through the old posts in this thread... LOL this was said in 2009.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Salman!

-He hasn't had a #1 single since Kiss Kiss in the US
-Between 2009-2012, he has only had one top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100
-He hasn't had a top 5 hit since 2008
-F.A.M.E. sold 700K in the US, and Graffiti sold only 300K in the US. Compare this to his first two albums which were released before he beat up Rihanna, they sold 2 million and 1.9 million respectively. So saleswise he is going down.


His music success has changed massively as you can see.

-Kiss Kiss was one of only two #1 singles and was two years before the incident. So it's not like Chris Brown not having a #1 single is any different
-Look at Me Now was #6 and he had three other singles in the top 20
-F.A.M.E. hit #1, something his other albums haven't done, so you can't say it wasn't a success
-Graffiti sucked, but was that due to the Rihanna incident or being just a bad album? Without the Rihanna incident it still would've flopped
-Since you seem to be so about the charts, let's look at this. On the US R&B, two #1s and 9 in the top 10 before the incident. After the incident, two #1s and 6 in the top 10, with another hitting at #11.

That's a joke if you think his success has changed massively. In fact, it's hardly changed at all. You just used certain figures to help your point. Chris Brown's still a big name in the music industry. Perhaps things are a little down from his first album or two, but doesn't that happen to all artists? The brand new "shiny" appeal wears off after a while, but he's still producing songs that people still listen to.

[Saph]

Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

That's a joke if you think his success has changed massively. In fact, it's hardly changed at all. You just used certain figures to help your point. Chris Brown's still a big name in the music industry. Perhaps things are a little down from his first album or two, but doesn't that happen to all artists? The brand new "shiny" appeal wears off after a while, but he's still producing songs that people still listen to.

No one even knew who he was until he beat up Rihanna..

[Doogle]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

No one even knew who he was until he beat up Rihanna..

That's definitely untrue.

[Saph]

Originally Posted by Doogle

That's definitely untrue.

Well I certainly didn't

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

No one even knew who he was until he beat up Rihanna..

[Smithy]

Rihanna's only been as successful as she has over here because of the whole incident, it boosted her profile massively

[Me. I Am Salman]

But then why did Rated R commercially flop over here?
And also GGGB had very similar success to Loud.

[Smithy]

because it wasn't a commercial album duhhh the singles did reasonably well though

[Vladimir]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Rihanna's only been as successful as she has over here because of the whole incident, it boosted her profile massively

hmmm maybe, but gggb era happened before the incident and it was huge, and rated r which was released right after the incident didn't do really well.

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Vladimir

hmmm maybe, but gggb era happened before the incident and it was huge, and rated r which was released right after the incident didn't do really well.

Exactly. Umbrella was number 1 for 10 weeks over here and GGGB was certified 6x Platinum over here and it was number 1 for 2 weeks. She's always been successful over here. The assault didn't make her any more popular.