Rihanna In Terrible Pain, But At Least Her Album Is Selling!
God bless E! for filling the void that TMZ so negligently abdicated: explaining just how spectacular Rihanna's beating has been for album sales.
In the wake of a Grammy day altercation that left her in the hospital and him under arrest, Rihanna was embraced by a clearly sympathetic public. Sales of her 2007 album, Good Girl Gone Bad, surged 33 percent, selling another 25,000 copies at No. 31.
Meanwhile, [Chris] Brown's 2007 album, Exclusive, continued to see sluggish sales, failing to register among the Top 200.
And now you know.
Meanwhile, Ultimate Rihanna has word of an upcoming Us story that details how a listless, torn Rihanna has been coping in the aftermath of her alleged attack from Brown:
"She hums sometimes, but she's more quiet than I've ever seen her," an unnamed pal of the "Umbrella" singer told Us. The friend said Rihanna, 20, visited a doctor last Friday, five days after Brown allegedly roughed her up following a fight in the couple's rented Lamborghini.
"It was because of the endless headaches she's been having since Chris hit her," the friend said."The doctors were concerned about the contusions on the sides of her head." The magazine reports that Rihanna is "torn" over helping cops build a case. Brown, 19, was arrested the night of the Grammys on suspicion of making criminal threats and was released on $50,000 bail.
"I mean, damn, her eye's black and the sides of her face are all f—d up," the friend told Us. "But she keeps saying she still loves him."
Rihanna's parents are reportedly pleading with her not to worry about how jail time might affect Brown's career, according to Us. A Daily News source said the Barbados-bred beauty is cooperating with police.
