Rihanna celebrates the tenth anniversary of her breakthrough album Good Girl Gone Bad: "I'm forever grateful"
In news that is likely to make plenty of you feel old, Rihanna has reminded us all that this month marks the tenth anniversary of her breakthrough album Good Girl Gone Bad.
That's right: the superstar's third album was released ten years ago this month. A full decade has passed us by. Help.
Rihanna took to Instagram - her favourite social media outlet - to mark the occasion, saying that she is "forever grateful" for her fans' support of the record and how it changed her life.
Good Girl Gone Bad landed straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in June 2007, shifting 54,000 copies in its opening week, holding off Biffy Clyro's Puzzle.
It has since gone on to sell a whopping 1.9 million in the UK, logging 177 weeks in the Top 100, and sales of over nine million worldwide. Look at Good Girl Gone Bad's week by week UK chart run.
MORE: Rihanna's complete Official UK Chart history, including 8 Number 1 singles
The record spawned a massive eight (eight!) singles, led by Umbrella, which spent ten weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. Its other singles were (the often forgotten) Shut Up And Drive (peaked at Number 5), Hate That I Love You (15) and Don't Stop The Music (4).
Three more singles followed a re-release of the record in 2008: Take A Bow (1), Disturbia (3) and If I Never See Your Face Again with Maroon 5 (28). Finally, the campaign was rounded off with original album track Rehab (16).
MORE: See where Rihanna's GGGB singles rank in her Official Top 40 best-sellers
Rihanna released two albums prior to GGGB, 2005's Music Of The Sun (35) and 2006's A Girl Like Me (5), but it was GGGB that turned her into the global superstar we know today. She's released another five successful records since, most recently 2016's Anti, and there are whispers that a follow-up is imminent.
For now though, Happy Birthday Good Girl Gone Bad! Seriously, what an album.
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Ronnie
QUEEN! Eight (8) top 30 singles from one album, with five (5) top 5 singles! The latest report stated that the album actually sold 15 million copies Worldwide. It's like ANTI- lots of numbers floating around, but ANTI has sold over 2.4 million copies in China alone, is certified 2 x platinum in the USA (heading for 3 x Platinum) and I'm sure globally all things told ANTI has sold well over 6 million units. With Music Of The Sun (2.5 million), A Girl Like Me (5 million), Rated R (5 million), LOUD (10 million), Unapologetic (5 million) and Talk That Talk (6 million) Rihanna has become quite the album artist and is by far the best-selling singles artist of all time. Latest figures suggest global sales have exceeded 300 million records sold since 2005! 55 million albums and over 250 million singles (over 120 million singles sold in the US alone). DIVA!
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Jisoo
ANTI has sold ONLY 640.000 copies in the USA :o the rest is just streaming .-. ANTI it's sadly one of her lowest selling albums