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Incredible posted...

Rihanna > Taylor

In terms of record sales and stuff, this is absolutely true. Rihanna is one of the most successful artists ever, and is the only artist in the last twenty years to hit the 250+ million sales number.

Using the next best modern artists as comparisons, Eminem, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Mariah Carey are floating around the 200+million club. Pretty much everyone else at the top of that list is 80s or 70s bands.

Now, this might not be the end all be all metric to use, as obviously the way people consume music has so drastically changed in the last decade or so, but still...

Here's the wiki on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists