Rihanna has been on quite the rollercoaster this year.
For, while business is booming and brand endorsements have been growing at a feverish rate, confusion surrounding her music has rendered 2015 her most challenging year yet.
Could the mess finally be set for a mop-up?
According to a report, an attempt could be made in a mere matter of weeks.
The latest on the ?ANTI? roll-out.
Via Hits Daily Double:
QuoteSources say the long-awaited Rihanna album, ANTI (Roc Nation), will make its debut on Jay Z?s Tidal service on 11/27 and go wide at e-tail and retail the following week (12/4). The latter date will mean her full-scale sales bow coincides with that of Coldplay?and comes two weeks after Adele.
News of the potential roll-out comes after it was revealed that a proposed Samsung premiere (akin to that of Jay Z?s ?Magna Carta?) was posing a problem for the chart team at Billboard. The issue? The deal would have allegedly seen the phone giant ?buy? a fixed number of ?ANTI? albums and pass them onto users as a ?free? download.Per HDD, Billboard would only green-light such scheme if users were presented a download voucher (branded with Rihanna + ANTI) and went on to download the album on their own accord. The issue for Team Rih? That means said users could *technically* use the Rihanna voucher to purchase a? Beyonce album? (for example). Hilarious irony and an obvious no-no for Camp Fenty.As for this supposed TIDAL arrival, it?s not looking good. We?ve gone to bat for the platform and still see its potential (outside of streaming). But the reality is that it doesn?t have the installed audience to sustain the buzz for more than a day or so after ?ANTI?s debut. And even if it did,
releasing at retail a week later is like feeding Rih to the lions. Because not only would it have given the masses time to chew, dissect, and dispose of the LP, it?s that the day the new Coldplay album arrives. Oh and, of course, there?s Adele.Until we see other, this remains the muckiest of messes.
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2015/11/report-rihanna-release-new-album-two-weeks-tidal/
