Omg! Rihanna is broke and only has $20,000 dollars to her name!

[bondingo]

I've been reading this thread since it was first posted, but I completely forgot that I never even commented here.

I personally like Rihanna...a lot. I think her voice is very unique and she has some fantastic music. Her first two albums were rather weak, but had some great singles. GGGB, as many have said, was an amazing album. I honestly liked every single track except for Lemme Get That (although Say It wasn't fantastic either). No matter, it was a very consistent album with an enormous proportion of great songs to mediocre, and I think it deserved to sell far better than it did. I bought it around when it was first released, then again when the Reloaded edition came out because I loved Disturbia so much.

As for the actual issue going on, it's truly unfortunate. Obviously things didn't go the way she had hoped they would in a fiscal sense, and it's sad that perhaps the biggest mainstream female artist at the moment is almost broke. She really needs to get working on a a new album though, because only with great sales will she be able to recoup all the losses. It's too bad that GGGB didn't sell well enough to make a substantial profit for Rihanna herself, as it was undoubtedly one of the best of 2007.