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Posted by: AdamAloud 19th November 2015, 06:04 PM

I just want to say a huge thank you to liamk97 once again, I asked him for help in compiling this thread and he sent me complete up-to-date top 200 chart runs, sales and certifications for everything. Thank you so much!

I will try and keep this regularly updated every Friday (not that Rihanna is troubling the chart much at the moment) but if you notice anything that does need updating, or have any up-to-date information for this, please post it in this thread

Posted by: liamk97 23rd November 2015, 12:59 PM

Only noticed this now, but you're very welcome! I'll let you know of any further estimates I come across.

Posted by: liamk97 8th February 2016, 01:03 PM

MW confirmed that 19 Rihanna singles have passed 500k and 30 have passed 250k (including streams). These are the songs I think make up these totals:

500,000+
01 Diamonds
02 Disturbia
03 FourFiveSeconds
04 Love the Way You Lie
05 Only Girl (in the World)
06 Princess of China
07 Rude Boy
08 Russian Roulette
09 S&M
10 Stay
11 Take a Bow
12 Take Care
13 The Monster
14 Umbrella
15 We Found Love
16 What's My Name?
17 Where Have You Been
18 Who's That Chick?

Can't work out whether 'Don't Stop the Music' or 'Live Your Life' takes the 19th slot; whichever doesn't is very close anyway.

250,000+
01 All of the Lights
02 California King Bed
03 Cheers (Drink to That)
04 Diamonds
05 Disturbia
06 Don't Stop the Music
07 Fly
08 FourFiveSeconds
09 Live Your Life
10 Love the Way You Lie
11 Only Girl (in the World)
12 Pon de Replay
13 Princess of China
14 Rude Boy
15 Russian Roulette
16 S&M
17 Shut Up and Drive
18 SOS
19 Stay
20 Take a Bow
21 Take Care
22 Te Amo
23 The Monster
24 Umbrella
25 Unfaithful
26 We Found Love
27 What's My Name?
28 Where Have You Been
29 Who's That Chick?
30 You Da One

Posted by: AdamAloud 8th February 2016, 01:35 PM

Thanks Liam, phenomenal success in the UK for Rih!

Posted by: liamk97 8th February 2016, 03:11 PM

It really is incredible! To compare, Madonna is thought to have 12 songs over 500k and 25 songs of 250k; Kylie has 3 songs over 500k and 13 over 250k; and Britney has 2 songs over 500k and 10 over 250k. Of course, Rihanna has the advantage of most of her singles being released during peak years for sales whereas Kylie and Britney were particularly hit by the low early to mid 00s sales, but it is impressive all the same.

Posted by: Lee_J11 20th April 2016, 06:52 PM

What Now has been certified Silver! Big jump from 121K then!

Posted by: SamJudd 8th May 2016, 12:18 AM

Some recent updated chart runs and sales for the Anti Era



Work

Chart Run =13-4-4-3-2-2-3-5-6-6-8-10-10-13-16-18-22-22-23-23-31-35-35
Certification = Platinum
Sales = 927,000+




Kiss It Better

Chart Run = 51-60-57-77-60-46-49-48-51-60-67-97-90
Sales = 162,000+




Needed Me

Chart Run =90-61-48-49-52-50-48-47-47-45-41
Sales = 183,000+

Posted by: AdamAloud 8th May 2016, 09:38 AM

Thanks Sam! I've been a bit slack updating this but will get round to adding 'This Is What You Came For' and updating 'ANTI' later.

Posted by: SamJudd 23rd May 2016, 06:00 PM

Some more updates, plus I've edited my previous post which includes the current chart runs and sales, and in this post I have 'This Is What You Came For" & her 'Anti' album.





This Is What You Came For (Ft Calvin Harris)

Chart Run = 2-2-3-3-3-3-4-4-4...
Certification = Platinum
Sales = 661,000+






Anti (Album)

Chart Run =7-7-9-9-10-19-15-19-21-23-20-20-18-21-22-22-25-27-22-33-36-21
Certification = Gold
Sales = 123,000+

Posted by: SamJudd 15th June 2016, 05:30 PM

Another update for Rihanna & Drake's latest collaboration.




Too Good (Ft Drake)

Chart Run = 41-23-8-6-7-6-5-5-3- (14/05/16)
Certification = Silver
Sales = 348,000+

Posted by: Atonement 15th June 2016, 05:58 PM

The chart runs for 'Needed Me' and 'Kiss It Better' are so annoying. But at least she's still up in the charts with 'Too Good' and 'This Is What You Came For'.

Posted by: liamk97 18th June 2016, 01:26 PM

Sales for the Top 8 (#7 aside) best sellers from Rihanna have been revealed by Music Week:

01 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love 1,551,697
02 Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie 1,368,731
03 Rihanna - Diamonds 1,236,405
04 Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) 1,223,737
05 Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella 929,979 (859,219 paid for (128,341 CDs, 730,878 downloads), 67,760 streams)
06 Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster 927,317
07 Rihanna ft. Drake - What's My Name?
08 Rihanna ft. Drake - Work 892,062

Using sales only data given in January 2016, 'We Found Love' has managed 160k streams, 'Love the Way You Lie' 150k, 'Diamonds', 165k, 'Only Girl' 70k, and 'The Monster' 250k.

'Umbrella' has sold 5.8k in that time.

Posted by: Jaÿ 20th June 2016, 12:06 PM

Thanks Liam!

QUOTE(liamk97 @ Jun 18 2016, 02:26 PM)

Posted by: liamk97 20th June 2016, 01:24 PM

QUOTE(Jaÿ @ Jun 20 2016, 01:06 PM)

Posted by: Atonement 20th June 2016, 05:06 PM

Thanks to streaming 'Umbrella' will finally become a deserved million seller.

I do not like the sight of her two sub-par Eminem features in that top 8 though

Posted by: Andr00w 18th July 2016, 07:51 PM

Added in some recent sales/chart runs

Posted by: Andr00w 23rd July 2016, 07:11 PM

Thanks very much Kath and Sam for doing all of this so far, I'll get it updated later!

Posted by: SamJudd 28th July 2016, 06:28 PM

Kiss It Better - 175,000
Needed Me - 225,000

Posted by: Andr00w 25th September 2016, 05:30 PM

Updated some recent chart runs!

Posted by: Andrew. 22nd October 2016, 03:16 PM

liamk97 in the charts forum has estimated Rihanna's singles in order of sales (up to 'Needed Me'):

01 We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris)
02 Love the Way You Lie (with Eminem)
03 Diamonds
04 Only Girl (In the World)
05 This is What You Came For (with Calvin Harris)
06 Work (ft. Drake) 1,000,000+
07 The Monster (with Eminem)
08 Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)
09 What's My Name? (ft. Drake) 900,000+
10 Too Good (with Drake)

11 FourFiveSeconds (ft. Kanye West & Paul McCartney)
12 S&M 800,000+
13 Rude Boy
14 Stay (ft. Mikky Ekko) 700,000+
15 Take Care
16 Princess of China (with Coldplay)
17 Who's That Chick? (with David Guetta)
18 Disturbia 600,000+
19 Take a Bow
20 Where Have You Been

21 Russian Roulette
22 Live Your Life (with T.I)
23 Don't Stop the Music 500,000+
24 Unfaithful
25 Run This Town (with Jay-Z & Kanye West)
26 All of the Lights (with Kanye West) 400,000+
27 Needed Me 376,238

Posted by: Jaÿ 4th November 2016, 09:42 PM

Too Good has just passed 900,000 sales. Poor Umbrella is going to be pushed down to 9th soon.

TIWYCF has also exceeded 1,200,000 sales, making it her fifth single to achieved double platinum status.

Posted by: Tinasha 19th December 2016, 03:28 PM

Man Down went Silver on Friday.

Posted by: Andrew Sleighs 21st December 2016, 09:40 PM

QUOTE(Tinasha @ Dec 19 2016, 03:28 PM)

Posted by: liamk97 21st January 2017, 01:36 PM

'Take a Bow' has become her 19th Platinum single!

Posted by: Andrew. 21st January 2017, 01:59 PM

QUOTE(liamk97 @ Jan 21 2017, 01:36 PM)

'Take a Bow' has become her 19th Platinum single!

Posted by: liamk97 21st January 2017, 02:06 PM

Looking at her sales-only list, it would seem 'Where Have You Been' will be next.

Posted by: liamk97 22nd February 2017, 12:32 AM

Using available data, this is what I think Rihanna's best sellers list looks like - including streams, with sales rounded to the nearest 50k:

01 1,600,000 | We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris) [#1, 2011]
02 1,400,000 | Love the Way You Lie (with Eminem) [#2, 2010]
03 1,350,000 | This is What You Came For (with Calvin Harris) [#2, 2016]
04 1,250,000 | Diamonds [#1, 2012]
05 1,250,000 | Only Girl (in the World) [#1, 2010]
06 1,200,000 | Work (ft. Drake) [#2, 2016]
07 1,050,000 | Too Good (with Drake) [#3, 2016]
08 950,000 | The Monster (with Eminem) [#1, 2013]
09 950,000 | Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z) [#1, 2007]
10 900,000 | What's My Name? (with Drake) [#1, 2010]

11 850,000 | FourFiveSeconds (with Kanye West & Paul McCartney) [#3, 2015]
12 800,000 | S&M [#3, 2010]
13 750,000 | Rude Boy [#2, 2009]
14 750,000 | Stay (ft. Mikky Ekko) [#4, 2012]
15 750,000 | Take Care (with Drake) [#9, 2011]
16 650,000 | Princess of China (with Coldplay) [#4, 2011]
17 600,000 | Who's That Chick? (with David Guetta) [#6, 2010]
18 600,000 | Disturbia [#3, 2008]
19 600,000 | Take a Bow [#1, 2008]
20 500,000 | Where Have You Been [#6, 2011]

21 500,000 | Russian Roulette [#2, 2009]
22 500,000 | Live Your Life (with T.I.) [#2, 2008]
23 500,000 | Don't Stop the Music [#4, 2007]
24 450,000 | Needed Me [#38, 2016]
25 450,000 | Unfaithful [#2, 2006]
26 450,000 | Run This Town (with Jay-Z & Kanye West) [#1, 2009]
27 450,000 | All of the Lights (with Kanye West) [#15, 2010]
28 350,000 | SOS [#2, 2006]
29 350,000 | Pon de Replay [#2, 2005]
30 300,000 | California King Bed [#8, 2010]

31 300,000 | Te Amo [#14, 2009]
32 300,000 | Shut Up and Drive [#5, 2007]
33 300,000 | Bitch Better Have My Money [#27, 2016]
34 250,000 | Fly (with Nicki Minaj) [#16, 2010]
35 250,000 | Cheers (Drink to That) [#15, 2010]
36 250,000 | You da One [#16, 2011]
37 250,000 | Hate That I Love You (ft. Ne-Yo) [#15, 2007]
38 250,000 | Rehab (ft. Justin Timberlake) [#16, 2007]
39 250,000 | Can't Remember to Forget You (with Shakira) [#11, 2014]
40 200,000 | What Now [#21, 2012]

41 200,000 | Kiss It Better [#46, 2016]
42 200,000 | Man Down [#54, 2010]

I suspect 'Talk That Talk' is on the brink of getting a Silver certification, whilst 'Hard' and 'Pour It Up' might not be that far away either.

Posted by: liamk97 9th March 2017, 11:48 AM

From Music Week:

Posted by: liamk97 22nd March 2017, 02:29 PM

QUOTE(liamk97 @ Feb 22 2017, 12:32 AM)

Posted by: Andrew. 25th March 2017, 11:11 PM

'Work' has gone 2x platinum and is now her third best selling single! Not sure I'd put it anywhere near that high in her discography but pleased to see it do so well nonetheless.

Updated all chart runs!

Posted by: Andrew. 9th May 2017, 04:55 PM

All UK chart runs updated! Thank you so much to Jay who provided me with up to date chart runs and sales!

Posted by: liamk97 9th May 2017, 05:07 PM

My computer won't let me see the front page due to 'dangerous content'. Are there any links or images on the front page?

Posted by: Andrew. 9th May 2017, 05:15 PM

QUOTE(liamk97 @ May 9 2017, 06:07 PM)

Posted by: liamk97 24th June 2017, 10:31 AM

'Umbrella' confirmed as a million seller with streams in the UK. Currently stands at 1.026m (867,600 sales + 158k worth of streams).

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/5-random-chart-facts-of-the-week-that-will-make-you-go-ooooh__19492/

Posted by: Rob Spears 24th June 2017, 07:36 PM

Just out of interest, does anyone have a sales only list?

Posted by: Atonement 25th June 2017, 09:40 AM

'Wild Thoughts' is her 30th UK top 10 single!

Pon de Replay (2005)
SOS (2006)
Unfaithful (2006)
Umbrella (2007)
Shut up and Drive (2007)
Don't Stop the Music (2007)
Live Your Life (2008)
Take a Bow (2008)
Disturbia (2008)
Run This Town (2009)
Russian Roulette (2009)
Rude Boy (2010)
Love the Way You Lie (2010)
Only Girl (In the World) (2010)
What's My Name? (2010)
Who's That Chick? (2010)
S&M (2011)
California King Bed (2011)
We Found Love (2011)
Princess of China (2012)
Take Care (2012)
Where Have You Been? (2012)
Diamonds (2012)
Stay (2013)
The Monster (2013)
FourFiveSeconds (2015)
Work (2016)
This Is What You Came For (2016)
Too Good (2016)
Wild Thoughts (2017)

Posted by: burbe 27th June 2017, 08:10 PM

It's a shame Can't Remember to Forget You missed the top 10, she'd have one ever year since she debuted then </3

Posted by: Atonement 27th June 2017, 09:21 PM

QUOTE(burbe @ Jun 27 2017, 10:10 PM)

Posted by: liamk97 5th August 2017, 12:08 PM

From the OCC:

Posted by: THEO. 15th September 2017, 09:26 PM

This is now update to date and includes "Wild Thoughts" which spends its 13th week in the top 40 today

Thanks again to Adam, Liam and Sam for their contributions to this thread!

Posted by: THEO. 19th September 2017, 12:32 PM

The OCC has revised its definition of a million-seller, so Rihanna now has 10!

Here they are - the figure in brackets is the sales/streaming combined total:

1. "We Found Love" [ft. Calvin Harris] 1,415,416 (1,703,948)
2. "Love the Way You Lie" [with Eminem] 1,258,763 (1,552,222)
3. "This Is What You Came For" [with Calvin Harris] 472,496 (1,502,292)
4. "Diamonds" 1,098,959 (1,350,171)
5. "Work" [ft. Drake] 320,615 (1,299,794)
6. "Only Girl (in the World)" 1,162,460 (1,287,349)
7. "Too Good" [with Drake] 217,917 (1,168,538)
8. "The Monster" [with Eminem] 696,280 (1,059,913)
9. "Umbrella" [ft. Jay-Z] 869,597 (1,040,996)
10. "FourFiveSeconds" [with Kanye West and Paul McCartney] 521,572 (1,000,169)

I'll update the original posts now ;o

Posted by: Andrew. 19th September 2017, 04:35 PM

I don't think Work/Too Good would even be in her top 15 pure sales but I suppose for after 2015 they're actually really good pure sales Yayyyy at Umbrella and FFS at 1m <3

Posted by: THEO. 19th September 2017, 04:37 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Sep 19 2017, 05:35 PM)

I don't think Work/Too Good would even be in her top 15 pure sales but I suppose for after 2015 they're actually really good pure sales Yayyyy at Umbrella and FFS at 1m <3

Posted by: Jay ☆ 19th September 2017, 07:13 PM

Thanks for the Top 10 list, Theo! *.*

Too Good is the second lowest, French Montana's Unforgettable has only managed 148,756 downloads!

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Sep 19 2017, 05:35 PM)

I don't think Work/Too Good would even be in her top 15 pure sales but I suppose for after 2015 they're actually really good pure sales Yayyyy at Umbrella and FFS at 1m <3

Posted by: liamk97 25th September 2017, 05:38 PM

From MTV:

1 . Rihanna ft Calvin Harris = We Found Love :: 1,690k
2 . Eminem ft Rihanna = Love The Way You Lie :: 1,540k
3 . Calvin Harris ft Rihanna = This Is What You Came For :: 1,480k
4 . Rihanna = Diamonds :: 1,340k
5 . Rihanna ft Drake = Work :: 1,290k
6 . Rihanna = Only Girl (In The World) :: 1,280k
7 . Drake ft Rihanna = Too Good :: 1,160k
8 . Eminem ft Rihanna = Monster :: 1,050k
9 . Rihanna ft Jay-Z = Umbrella :: 1,030k
10 . Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney = FourFive Seconds :: 990k
11 . Rihanna ft Drake = What's My Name :: 960k
12 . Rihanna ft Mikky Ekko = Stay :: 920k
13 . Rihanna = S&M :: 900k
14 . Drake ft Rihanna = Take Care :: 830k
15 . Rihanna = Rude Boy :: 820k
16 . Coldplay ft Rihanna = Princess Of China :: 740k
17 . Rihanna = Take A Bow :: 650k
18 . Rihanna = Disturbia :: 640k
19 . David Guetta ft Rihanna = Who's That Chick :: 640k
20 . TI ft Rihanna = Live Your Life :: 590k

Including streams and dating back to, I think, July.

Posted by: THEO. 25th September 2017, 05:52 PM

Thanks for that list, Liam K!

Interesting that "Take a Bow" has (re-)overtaken "Disturbia", the latter was certified Platinum four months before the former. Also 100,000 for "Rude Boy" in just over a year is great I can't believe "Where Have You Been" isn't in her top twenty best-sellers though! Probably the largest omission barring the singles from her first two albums. Hopefully "Wild Thoughts" will be top twenty by year end!

Posted by: Andrew. 25th September 2017, 05:59 PM

Thanks Liam bb! <3 'What's My Name' should be a million seller soon and hopefully it won't be too long for Stay and S&M

Thanks for that list, Liam K!

Interesting that "Take a Bow" has (re-)overtaken "Disturbia", the latter was certified Platinum four months before the former. Also 100,000 for "Rude Boy" in just over a year is great I can't believe "Where Have You Been" isn't in her top twenty best-sellers though! Probably the largest omission barring the singles from her first two albums. Hopefully "Wild Thoughts" will be top twenty by year end!

Posted by: THEO. 26th September 2017, 04:55 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Sep 25 2017, 06:59 PM)

Posted by: THEO. 13th October 2017, 04:32 PM

"Live Your Life" has become Rihanna's 21st Platinum-certified single in the UK! She also has more the most certified songs of any other artist here!

Posted by: THEO. 10th November 2017, 09:32 PM

Updated this with sales of "Love the Way You Lie" and "The Monster" thanks to OCC.

"Lemon" charts at #31 officially this week

Posted by: Theo. 2nd January 2018, 12:41 PM

"Wild Thoughts" ended 2017 as the UK's 13th highest selling single! It should be very close to passing 1 million combined sales too.

Posted by: Theo. 8th January 2018, 06:38 PM

Both "Wild Thoughts" and "Lemon" have re-entered the Top 100 this week following the departure of all of the Christmas songs. "LOYALTY." has also been certified Silver for combined sales of 200,000!

Posted by: Theo. 28th January 2018, 04:47 PM

"Needed Me" is Rih's 15th Platinum single as a lead artist and 25th in total! 👑

Posted by: Theo. 16th February 2018, 08:48 PM

"Wild Thoughts" is Rihanna's 11th million-seller and among the UK's top 300 best 'selling' singles of all time

Posted by: Theo. 13th March 2018, 05:58 PM

"California King Bed" has been certified Gold recently.

We also have sales updates for "Umbrella" (1.1 million) and "Run This Town" (511,000) which is over 100,000 combined sales more than its last update in June 2017!

Posted by: Theo. 24th April 2018, 08:50 AM

According to Music Week on 5th April, "What's My Name?" was due to become Rihanna's record 13th millionaire the following week so I have updated its total to reflect that. If anyone knows what her 12th millionaire was so that I can update its sales, I'd appreciate it

They also gave her all-time UK singles sales at 36,881,585

Posted by: liamk97 24th April 2018, 02:24 PM

^ I assume it's 'Stay' that has passed 1m. 'S&M' can't be far behind though.

Posted by: Theo. 24th April 2018, 02:47 PM

QUOTE(liamk97 @ Apr 24 2018, 03:24 PM)

Posted by: liamk97 24th April 2018, 02:49 PM

QUOTE(Theo. @ Apr 24 2018, 03:47 PM)

Posted by: Lucas 25th April 2018, 05:30 PM

UK Albums

192 (RE) Good Girl Gone Bad
1,966,497 total

Posted by: Theo. 25th April 2018, 06:57 PM

QUOTE(Lucas @ Apr 25 2018, 06:30 PM)

Posted by: Lucas 26th April 2018, 09:14 AM

QUOTE(Theo. @ Apr 25 2018, 08:57 PM)

Thank you for the update and welcome to Buzzjack, Lucas!

Posted by: Lucas 4th May 2018, 03:56 PM

'SOS' is now certified Gold (400,000)

Posted by: Theo. 4th May 2018, 04:38 PM

QUOTE(Lucas @ May 4 2018, 04:56 PM)

Posted by: Theo. 18th May 2018, 04:18 PM

"Lemon" is Silver! Only one more until she has 50 certified songs *.*

Posted by: Jay ☆ 18th May 2018, 07:41 PM

I wonder which song is the next most likely to cross over 200k? 50 certified singles will be an incredible accomplishment.

Only just noticed SOS making it to Gold. 12 years on and I'm still a little annoyed to see it's chart run being cut so short because of the stupid rules of the time. :')


Here are a couple of up to date totals:

2,016,406 - LOUD *.* Omg at this crossing over 2m!
243,862 - ANTI

Posted by: Andrew. 18th May 2018, 07:46 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ May 18 2018, 08:41 PM)

I wonder which song is the next most likely to cross over 200k? 50 certified singles will be an incredible accomplishment.

Only just noticed SOS making it to Gold. 12 years on and I'm still a little annoyed to see it's chart run being cut so short because of the stupid rules of the time. :')
Here are a couple of up to date totals:

2,016,406 - LOUD *.* Omg at this crossing over 2m!
243,862 - ANTI

Posted by: Jay ☆ 18th May 2018, 09:42 PM

Loud definitely ahead of Good Girl Gone Bad! 1,966,497 for GGGB as of Fri 20th April 2018.

~~~

Here's the updated chart run for Good Girl Gone Bad - the chart run on the first page has 269 weeks accounted for, but it now has 275 weeks!

RE: 193-187-175 (entry: 01/03/2018) 3w
RE: 182-199 (entry: 29/03/2018) 2w
RE: 192 (entry: 26/04/2018) 1w
Total: 275w


Updated Loud, this week is its first re-entry since the chart run was last updated:

RE: 186 (entry: 24/05/2018) 1w
Total: 166w


Updated ANTI, continuation from the chart run posted:

-104-107-121-132-149-132-131-119-123-129-140-134-120-118-128-138-112-103-101-118-150-141-153-161-171-163-180 (first entry: 11/02/16) 94w
RE: 180-139-125-135-146-140-144-125-128-150-157-141-160-158-167-168-192-179-164-164 (second entry: 11/01/18) 20w
Total: 114w


ANTI is now her third longest chart run

~~~

Love the Way You Lie

RE: 200 (fifteenth entry: 19/05/16) 1w
RE: 124 (sixteenth entry: 25/08/16) 1w
Total: 108w


Take Care (added missing chart positions)

NE: 12-9-11-14-15-18-20-18-18-25-30-30-28-33-42-47-37-41-40-29-28-28-33-25-27-31-35-38-40-49-54-57-61-60-64-73-85-91-95-134-136-131-117-122-134-155-164-177 (first entry: 26/11/2011) 48w
RE: 147-198-200-125-158 (second entry: 03/11/2012) 5w
RE: 47-45-115 (third entry: 18/05/2013) 3w
RE: 57-65-93 (fourth entry: 05/10/2013) 3w
RE: 174 (fifth entry: 11/04/2015) 1w 60
Total: 60w


Can't Remember To Forget You (continuation)

-122-164-168-184-176 (first entry: 25/01/2014) 19w


This Is What You Came For (continuation)

-155-172-154-148-181-161-161-188 (first entry: 12/05/2016) 61w [Its week at #188 was within the final ever official Top 200. OCC reduced the chart to a Top 100 only, the following week]


Loyalty (added missing chart positions)

NE: 27-48-62-83-130-136-168- (first entry: 27/04/2017) 7w
RE: 166 (second entry: 06/07/2017) 1w [This position was within the final ever official Top 200. OCC reduced the chart to a Top 100 only, the following week]
RE: 98-91-87-90-93-90-100 (second entry: 10/08/2017) 7w

Posted by: Andrew. 18th May 2018, 10:00 PM

Wow at that ANTI chart run Obviously it’s being helped massively by streaming, I wouldn’t think it would’ve done much more than 100k on pure sales. Sorry to pester you again, but do you have any idea at all ANTI’s proportion of sales to streams?

Posted by: Jay ☆ 18th May 2018, 10:24 PM

I wish I did, but sadly not! It'd be very interesting to know that.

When it comes to this week alone though, only 6.23% of its sales came from physicals/downloads. (50 copies ). 93.77% from streaming, 753 units. Overall, 803 sales to be #164 this week.

Posted by: Andrew. 18th May 2018, 10:26 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ May 18 2018, 11:24 PM)

I wish I did, but sadly not! It'd be very interesting to know that.

When it comes to this week alone though, only 6.23% of its sales came from physicals/downloads. (50 copies ). 93.77% from streaming, 753 units. Overall, 803 sales to be #164 this week.

Posted by: Theo. 19th May 2018, 10:46 AM

Thank you for all that additional info, Jay! *.* I will work on adding it to the OP ASAP!

I'm in two minds about 'Loud' officially being her highest seller. Obviously it's a huge achievement to have two albums over/close to 2 million sales but it is well-documented that she isn't really here for it any more. In an ideal work, 'Anti' would be well over 2 million but that messy release strategy (and her being branded a flop by the media) didn't help sales

Posted by: Theo. 21st May 2018, 09:45 AM

Thank you once again for all the info, Jay! I have now added those chart runs into the opening posts

I have also edited the features/non album singles post so that the format is the same as the album-specific posts. Hopefully it's easier to read now and one can find the information that one may be looking for.

QUOTE(Andrew. @ May 18 2018, 08:46 PM)

It's incredible how many hits she's had <3 Maybe 'Hard'? Wow at Loud! *.* Has it overtaken GGGB or is that still her best seller, do you know?

Really hopeful from that than ANTI can go platinum soon-ish, hopefully by the end year.

Posted by: Lucas 21st May 2018, 08:08 PM

QUOTE(Theo. @ May 21 2018, 11:45 AM)

Thank you once again for all the info, Jay! I have now added those chart runs into the opening posts

I have also edited the features/non album singles post so that the format is the same as the album-specific posts. Hopefully it's easier to read now and one can find the information that one may be looking for.
Okay, so I have checked and Rih isn't actually officially credited on "Famous" which I have included in her 49 certified songs so if we're only counting official credits, she needs two more before she hits 50. "Hard" is a good shout at being next over 200,000 although we haven't had an estimate for that in over four years. I would guess the lead single from R9 or an upcoming collaboration (I wish!) would be next to be certified though unless any of the 'Anti' album tracks are close - which I would guess "Consideration" would be the front-runner for.

Posted by: liamk97 29th May 2018, 02:50 PM

'Who's That Chick' now on 660k as of April 2018, according to a David Guetta countdown on MTV Club.

Posted by: Lucas 8th June 2018, 04:58 PM

"We Found Love" is now certified 3x Platinum (1,800,000)

Posted by: Theo. 9th June 2018, 12:58 PM

QUOTE(liamk97 @ May 29 2018, 03:50 PM)

QUOTE(Lucas @ Jun 8 2018, 05:58 PM)

"We Found Love" is now certified 3x Platinum (1,800,000)

Posted by: Lucas 23rd June 2018, 11:41 AM

"Unfaithful" is now certified Platinum (600,000)

Posted by: Lucas 13th July 2018, 04:33 PM

Wild Thoughts is now certified 2x Platinum (1,200,000)!
Her 8th multi-platinum single (DJ Khaled & Bryson's first).

Posted by: Jay ☆ 13th July 2018, 05:13 PM

I didn't even realise it'd sold over a million! I'm not paying enough attention, clearly.

I'd say most of her other multi-platinum singles seem worthy of having achieved that status, although 'Too Good' sticks out for me as being undeserving of being within her Top 8 best sellers. I'll always find it crazy that out of all of her singles, it was that which provided her with her lengthiest run inside the UK Top 10 (16 weeks).

Posted by: Theo. 9th November 2018, 06:14 PM

"The Monster" has been certified 2x Platinum - Rihanna's eighth single to achieve double platinum status! Its last total was 1,080,000 exactly a year ago so it is averaging 120,000 sales per year.

Posted by: Theo. 29th November 2018, 05:22 PM

We have a new sales update for "Princess of China"! It's now on 798,000 and selling roughly 3,600 copies per month, so could become a million seller within the next 4-5 years

Posted by: Lucas 14th December 2018, 07:36 PM

"Umbrella" is now certified 2x Platinum (1,200,000)!

Her 10th multi-platinum single in the UK, tying Ed Sheeran for the most of all time.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 21st December 2018, 02:06 AM

Umbrella is still my fave

Any idea when GGGB the album will pass 2,000,000 sales?
Should be soon hopefully.

Be interesting to see Rated Rs total sales now as well.

Posted by: George.keh 4th January 2019, 06:43 PM

Love The Way You Lie just certified 3x platinum

Posted by: Lucas 4th January 2019, 08:33 PM

QUOTE(George.keh @ Jan 4 2019, 07:43 PM)

Posted by: Theonix 8th March 2019, 11:47 PM

From the OCC, in celebration of International Women's Day:

Posted by: Jay ☆ 10th March 2019, 07:09 AM

^ It does! What a smash *.*


Some new info: Good Girl Gone Bad recently passed 2 million sales in the UK, it's now on 2,001,956 as on 8th March. ANTI had sold 272,632 as of 1st March.


Good Girl Gone Bad has now spent 303 weeks in the UK Top 200, ANTI has managed 129 weeks. I'll get the chart positions together soon!

Posted by: Spiceboy 10th March 2019, 12:17 PM

Million sellers are becoming so irrelevant its so sad.

Posted by: Theonix 10th March 2019, 12:22 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 10 2019, 07:09 AM)

QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Mar 10 2019, 12:17 PM)

Posted by: Jordan Lee 10th March 2019, 07:41 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 10 2019, 07:09 AM)

Posted by: Theonix 11th March 2019, 09:31 PM

Opening posts are now updated, thanks again Jay!

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 10 2019, 07:09 AM)

Posted by: Spiceboy 14th March 2019, 03:58 PM

QUOTE(Theonix @ Mar 10 2019, 12:22 PM)

Ooh, thanks for all that info, Jay! *.* I'll work on updating all the sales figures into the main posts soon
Are you implying that We Found Love is irrelevant (because you're wrong) or that it hasn't "sold" a million copies (because it has)? Lol

Posted by: Jay ☆ 17th March 2019, 06:25 PM

I'd consider What's My Name? a worthy million seller / classic personally!

Also to be fair This Is What You Came For was one of the biggest smashes of 2016 (5th best seller), and 3 years is a little too early to be able to properly determine what will go on to be a memorable classic!

Posted by: Seinfeld 17th March 2019, 07:35 PM

QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Mar 14 2019, 03:58 PM)

Posted by: Theonix 18th March 2019, 09:05 PM

QUOTE(Seinfeld @ Mar 17 2019, 07:35 PM)

Posted by: Lucas 22nd March 2019, 04:14 PM

Well, speaking of million-sellers, "FourFiveSeconds" has just been certified 2x Platinum (1,200,000)!
Rihanna's 11th multi-platinum single, breaking a tie with Ed Sheeran.

Posted by: Theonix 15th June 2019, 09:19 AM

This Is What You Came For has been certified 3x Platinum, Rihanna's third single (and second Calvin collab) to reach 1.8 million combined sales!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 11th July 2019, 11:58 PM

I loved This Is What You Came For at the time of release I think it was a two or even three week #1 in my chart. I rarely go back to it now though and whenever I do all I can hear is Taylor Swift in the chorus

Posted by: Medellíam 12th July 2019, 02:34 PM

Posted by: Jordan Lee 12th July 2019, 03:00 PM

Was just going to post this!

I gasped at the 14 years bit though! Still remember this taking off.

Posted by: Medellíam 12th July 2019, 03:09 PM

Even though it's pre-mega stardom Rihanna, I feel it's worked its way to become a real classic in her discography and fits nicely alongside some of her big smashes. SOS and Unfaithful were probably bigger hits at the time but Pon de Replay feels a lot bigger now, although SOS still feels quite big.

Posted by: George.keh 12th July 2019, 03:23 PM

Pon De Replay has sold more in the UK now than SOS and every album released has 1 or more platinum single.

Posted by: George.keh 12th July 2019, 03:23 PM

QUOTE(Medellíam @ Jul 12 2019, 03:34 PM)

I count 26 Platinum singles!

Posted by: Jay ☆ 12th July 2019, 04:06 PM

Platinum exactly 2 years after it went Gold A third of its overall total occurring 12-14 years after it was a hit. The joys of streaming! It had sold 125,000 copies by the end of 2005 (which was pretty reasonable for the time).

Posted by: Medellíam 13th July 2019, 10:34 AM

Full list of BPI certifications for Rihanna songs:

3x Platinum
Love the Way You Lie (with Eminem)
This is What You Came For (with Calvin Harris)
We Found Love (with Calvin Harris)

2x Platinum
Diamonds
FourFiveSeconds (with Kanye West & Paul McCartney)
Only Girl (in the World)
The Monster (with Eminem)
Too Good (with Drake)
Umbrella (with Jay-Z)
Wild Thoughts (with DJ Khaled & Bryson Tiller)
Work (with Drake)

Platinum
All of the Lights (with Kanye West)
Don't Stop the Music
Disturbia
Live Your Life (with T.I.)
Needed Me
Pon de Replay
Princess of China (with Coldplay)
Rude Boy
S&M
Stay (with Mikky Ekko)
Take a Bow
Take Care
Unfaithful
What's My Name? (with Drake)
Where Have You Been
Who's That Chick?

Gold
Bitch Better Have My Money
California King Bed
Run This Town (with Jay-Z & Kanye West)
Russian Roulette
SOS

Silver
Can't Remember to Forget You (with Shakira)
Cheers (Drink to That)
Fly (with Nicki Minaj)
Hate That I Love You (with Ne-Yo)
Kiss It Better
Lemon (with N.E.R.D.)
Love on the Brain
LOYALTY. (with Kendrick Lamar)
Man Down
Pour It Up
Rehab (with Justin Timberlake)
Shut Up & Drive
Talk That Talk (with Jay-Z)
Te Amo
What Now
You da One

'Shut Up & Drive' feels a bit out of place in that list of Silver certifications - I feel like a Gold certification can't be far off.

List of uncertified singles that reached the Top 100:

American Oxygen
Hard (with Jeezy)
If I Never See Your Face Again (with Maroon 5)
If It's Lovin' that You Want
Nothing is Promised (with Mike Will Made It)
Right Now (with David Guetta)
Selfish (with Future)
Sledgehammer
Towards the Sun
Wait Your Turn
We Ride

Posted by: Jordan Lee 13th July 2019, 11:27 AM

Some of her 2x platinum hits feel smaller than some of her platinum ones tbh. Just goes to show the power of streams.

Even Needed Me being platinum and SOS, Russian Roulette and Run This Town just gold adds to that.

Posted by: Theonix 13th July 2019, 03:24 PM

Wow, thanks so much for the complete list Liam!! *.*

Posted by: Jordan Lee 26th July 2019, 10:52 PM

QUOTE(Medellíam @ Jul 12 2019, 04:09 PM)

Posted by: Medellíam 27th July 2019, 02:42 AM

Pon de Replay is in the same vein as Kevin Lyttle 'Turn Me On' and Eminem 'Shake That' where literally everyone will get down and dirty on the dancefloor. Definitely one I hear very regularly and just doesn't get old.

Posted by: Lucas 23rd August 2019, 06:44 PM

"Hate That I Love You" (ft. Ne-Yo) is now Gold (400,000)

It's her 33rd Gold single, and she becomes the first female artist to surpass 30M certified song units!

Posted by: Lucas 16th September 2019, 03:55 PM

MusicWeek updated some of her sales,

ANTI - 291,630
Loud - 2,060,064
Talk That Talk - 1,077,121

They also mention Good Girl Gone Bad "has also broken the 2m barrier", and Diamonds is at 1,545,807.
So ANTI sold 19K copies in the past 28 weeks. It should get to Platinum in 3-4 months, maybe faster than that with a possible new album boost.

Link: https://www.musicweek.com/publishing/read/rihanna-reunites-with-jon-platt-at-sony-atv/077438

Posted by: Jay ☆ 17th September 2019, 04:26 AM

Thank you for these updates!

Good Girl Gone Bad - 2,024,803

Posted by: Theonix 17th September 2019, 04:43 PM

Ooh thanks for those! That's crazy that Anti isn't even Platinum yet 🙃 Hopefully if we get some news about R9 soon it will boost sales

Posted by: Lucas 17th September 2019, 05:58 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Sep 17 2019, 06:26 AM)

Posted by: Jay ☆ 18th September 2019, 05:26 AM

Unfortunately I don’t I knew the Good Girl Gone Bad sales because it’s in the UK Top 200 album chart this week!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 18th September 2019, 03:07 PM

How many females have 2 albums (studio albums!!) on 2m sales in the UK.

I can only think of Dido and Adele from the top of my head!

Posted by: Theonix 18th September 2019, 04:11 PM

QUOTE(Jordan Lee @ Sep 18 2019, 04:07 PM)

Posted by: Lucas 4th October 2019, 04:30 PM

"Consideration" ft. SZA is now Silver (200,000)!

That was unexpected, impressive! Her 49th certified track in the UK.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 7th October 2019, 12:40 PM

Go Consideration!!!

Being track one on the album may have helped this out but it is one of the better album tracks.

Posted by: Lucas 29th November 2019, 07:55 PM

"Stay" has just become her 12th Multi-Platinum song! She's tied with Ed Sheeran for the most of all time (12).

Posted by: George.keh 13th December 2019, 05:00 PM

Anti is now platinum in the U.K.!

Posted by: Lucas 13th December 2019, 06:52 PM

QUOTE(George.keh @ Dec 13 2019, 07:00 PM)

Posted by: Theonix 15th December 2019, 05:26 PM

QUOTE(George.keh @ Dec 13 2019, 06:00 PM)

Posted by: George.keh 20th December 2019, 04:08 PM

Russian Roulette has gone platinum!

Posted by: Lucas 3rd January 2020, 06:26 PM

Love On The Brain is now Gold in the UK (certified on 12/20)!

PS: I got the totals of KIB & LOTB mixed up when I posted them a cpl weeks ago, sorry!

Posted by: Jay ☆ 5th January 2020, 05:44 AM

Thank you for the updates, Lucas and George.keh! Impressive to see Love On The Brain go gold!

Posted by: George.keh 21st January 2020, 05:23 PM

Desperado is silver

Posted by: Lucas 21st January 2020, 07:31 PM

QUOTE(George.keh @ Jan 21 2020, 07:23 PM)

Posted by: Lucas 15th February 2020, 08:21 PM

"Sex With Me" is now Silver 7th track from ANTI to achieve this!

Posted by: Lucas 23rd February 2020, 03:26 AM

"Shut Up And Drive" is now Gold

Posted by: Jordan Lee 6th March 2020, 07:47 PM

Rihanna has 4 entries in the 100 biggest female albums of the century.

12. Loud
13. Good Girl Gone Bad
59 Talk that Talk
97 Unapologetic

Posted by: Jay ☆ 12th April 2020, 12:28 AM

2,081,085 - Loud
2,050,922 - Good Girl Gone Bad

Posted by: Lucas 12th April 2020, 11:22 PM

QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Apr 12 2020, 02:28 AM)

Posted by: Andrew. 15th April 2020, 01:00 AM

Love On The Brain going gold is amazing <3 I think the catalogue 'sales' of the singles show that although none of them bar Work were big at the time they have a legacy and are deffo way more remembered than you'd think. Although I'd say Needed Me was fairly big, it had a fab chart run despite the #38 peak and tbf I don't think it was sent to radio here?

Omg yas at three album tracks being certified silver, one more to go then we're at 50% of the masterpiece <3 I'm not sure what will come next if anything (in the near future at least), 'Yeah, I Said It' is the next album track down in Spotify streams although it's kinda far between it and the top three. Close to you, Higher and Same Ol' Mistakes aren't far behind YISI () so maybe I'm wildly overestimating but if that's certified soon they could be too.

ANTI may not have the pure sales of her other albums but I'd say the album tracks are her best known ever. Justice.

Posted by: Liam.k. 16th May 2020, 02:49 PM

'If I Never See Your Face Again' has sold 130k as of February 2020, according to an MTV Maroon 5 countdown.

Posted by: Andrew. 22nd May 2020, 10:10 PM

I'm bored so I worked out the sales chart run for ANTI ;o

[Entry: 11/02/16] 06-07-13-16-19-26-28-32-36-38-40-51-40-37-
47-45-52-62-74-92-71-46-70-99-98-92-95-x [Out: 18/08/16]
[RE: 01/09/16] 98-x
Total: 28w

So it spent 60 weeks on the overall chart but only 28 on the sales chart Interesting that it still would've peaked higher on sales even though there wasn't even a CD out in the first week :') 60 weeks in the top 100 is her 4th highest behind GGGB, Loud and Rated R but on sales, only Music Of The Sun spent less. I wonder how much it's sold pure? 100-150k?

Posted by: Jordan Lee 22nd May 2020, 10:15 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ May 22 2020, 11:10 PM)

I'm bored so I worked out the sales chart run for ANTI ;o

[Entry: 11/02/16] 06-07-13-16-19-26-28-32-36-38-40-51-40-37-
47-45-52-62-74-92-71-46-70-99-98-92-95-x [Out: 18/08/16]
[RE: 01/09/16] 98-x
Total: 28w

So it spent 60 weeks on the overall chart but only 28 on the sales chart Interesting that it still would've peaked higher on sales even though there wasn't even a CD out in the first week :') 60 weeks in the top 100 is her 4th highest behind GGGB, Loud and Rated R but on sales, only Music Of The Sun spent less. I wonder how much it's sold pure? 100-150k?

Posted by: Andrew. 22nd May 2020, 10:19 PM

It shows that despite Kiss It Better flopping () It still had more of an effect on the album than it's chart run would as it went back into the top 40 sales. Needed Me (which was a legit hit) and LOTB didn't do anything at all D:

I agree it's not bad, I'm happy with it's overall performance I just wish it'd sold more in it's first few weeks. Despite the messy release it really should've sold a bit more initially tbh oops

Posted by: Jordan Lee 22nd May 2020, 10:22 PM

Had it come out in November 2015 it probably would’ve sold more in it’s opening weeks although idk how it would’ve affected the peak.

Posted by: StupidLove 22nd May 2020, 11:10 PM

I'm still amazed she never put Four Five Seconds, BBHMM and American Oxygen on the album - what was the reason for that?

Posted by: Liam.k. 23rd May 2020, 12:35 AM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ May 22 2020, 11:10 PM)

Posted by: Andrew. 23rd May 2020, 12:41 AM

Even for 2016 that’s....bad I can’t believe so few people purchased such an amazing album! At a rough estimate, let’s say it sold 1.5k pure sales a week for the rest of its run on the sales chart. (Is that too generous? I know pure album sales in 2016 were down a bit but they were much much better than now) 1.5 x 26 = 39k, which would put it around 66k and maybe 75k total pure sales? Eek. Let’s stick to the combined chart with Rih for anything post FourFiveSeconds x

Posted by: Jordan Lee 23rd May 2020, 01:02 AM

We will likely get a full update at some point this year for new Rihanna album sales totals for every era when we get R9.

The OCC tend to do that when there’s a new release on the way. We’ve just had a big update with Gagas career sales. It’ll be great to see what her catalogues sold lately. GGGB, Loud and ANTI are likely selling the most per week I’d imagine

Posted by: Jay* 21st June 2020, 04:53 AM

QUOTE(Lucas @ Apr 13 2020, 12:22 AM)

Thank you!
Do you fave figures for any of her other albums ?

Posted by: Andrew. 21st June 2020, 05:08 AM

Am I right in saying GGGB is catching up on Loud? I’m sure I remember the gap being larger than that not long ago. Also do you know when ANTI was last in the top 200? Sorry to question you

Posted by: Jay* 21st June 2020, 07:11 AM

It is indeed catching up, but very slowly!

The gap between their sales on 10th April 2020 was ‭30,163‬, but now 10 weeks later it's ‭29,305‬. Loud is managing 799 sales per week on average, while Good Girl Gone Bad is 885 a week on average. If they continued to do that every week, Good Girl Gone Bad wouldn't overtake Loud until January 2027(!) by which point they'd have both sold 2,362,000.

As far as I can tell the last time ANTI was Top 200 was on 1st March 2019, which was its 129th week in the chart! At that point it had sold 272,632. Since then there's a couple of charts I don't have access to - 19th April 2019 and 14th June 2019, so I'm not sure if it might have re-entered on either of those dates unfortunately.

ANTI went Platinum on 13th December 2019, an increase of ‭more than ‭27,368‬ since 1st March 2019. That's 41 weeks, or 667.5 sales a week. #200 is usually always more than 700+, often 800+, so it must be quite far off Top 200 in most weeks. If it continued to sell at that rate, ANTI would be on 318,000+ now!

Posted by: Andrew. 21st June 2020, 07:42 AM

Thanks for that! <3

I’ll keep a look out in January 2027 then

ANTI is higher than GGGB and Loud on the Apple Music Albums chart so it’s weird it’s ‘selling’ much less. Hopefully it can re-enter when R9 comes.

Posted by: Andrew. 21st June 2020, 08:06 AM

It’s somehow been 4 months since Rih got any BPI certification, imma need to pour some water on this drought aka give streams.

The songs that are below 200k (Silver) that are most likely to get there anytime soon, just browsing through the first post of this topic I’d say are If I Never See Your Face Again, Hard (I thought this had gone Silver already for some reason mess) or another album track from ANTI, probably either Yeah, I Said It or Same Ol’ Mistakes although the three already certified (Consideration, Sesperado and Sex With Me) are quite far ahead on Spotify! The streams for the ANTI album tracks are wayyyyy ahead of her other albums.

Rehab, Te Amo, Cheers, What Now and Kiss It Better are next in line for gold I think

Posted by: Lucas 21st June 2020, 11:20 AM

Believe It should go Silver next week, or maybe the one after.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 21st June 2020, 12:01 PM

ANTI in the UK at least I think was ahead of its time slightly but it’s rare that female albums what are the genre of ANTI sell in large amounts. Platinum is still great though there’s not many females who’ve had 7 platinum albums in a row! Especially females who debuted in the 2000s decade too!

GGGB is a better streamer than Loud isn’t it? I wouldn’t mind if one day it did overtake Loud as it does feel like peak Rihanna and it was her longest era too as it’s the only one to get a re release.

Posted by: Andrew. 28th June 2020, 01:16 AM

So I've done some pointless number crunching (I have actual work to do ffs) and I've estimated that ANTI had sold 78,000 pure sales by September 2016. At most I assume that would've grown to 90,000?

Posted by: LJ JORD 7 10th July 2020, 10:40 PM

Posted by: Andrew. 10th July 2020, 11:02 PM

Every single from ANTI now at least gold Love On The Brain for plat next ty!

Posted by: LJ JORD 7 10th July 2020, 11:06 PM

ANTI really had some hits! 4 hits at least Gold! Those peaks don’t match the impact.

I always wish Kiss It Better managed to sneak into the top 40 I really felt like it was going too

Posted by: Andrew. 10th July 2020, 11:32 PM

On the 13/12/19, Kiss It Better had sold 377,600 (ty Lucas ) so that's an increase of 22.4k in 25 weeks, approx 896 copies per week. Everything could change between now and then lmao but it should be plat by 2025. On worldwide Spotify, Needed Me gets about 3.7x KIB's daily streams (last time I counted Needed Me went up 274k in a day and KIB 74k, see the iTunes & Spotify thread x), if that translates to sales over here then Needed Me is shifting c. 3.3k a week. I know Needed Me was biggest in America by far but if it's doing even half of that then it should easily be over 800k. Love On The Brain on that same day got 4.7x KIB's streams so again if it's doing even half of it it should be platinum by the end of next year. I could be totally wrong

Posted by: Lucas 17th July 2020, 04:47 PM

New certifications (July 17th):

Te Amo - Gold [400k]
Believe It - Silver [200k]

Posted by: Andrew. 17th July 2020, 06:10 PM

Believe It was expected but yay

I just realised that Hate That I Love You was certified Gold before Shut Up and Drive? What?

Posted by: LJ JORD 7 18th July 2020, 12:57 AM

Happy for Te Amo. That’s 3 gold tracks here now from the Rated R era.

She’s really smashing it that’s now 37 gold tracks she has now in the UK. That’s some seriously impressive stats right there!

Out of curiosity how has streaming affected Te Amo. Is most of those sales paid for?

Posted by: Jay* 21st August 2020, 07:34 PM

Love the Way You Lie Pt. II is Silver!

Posted by: LJ JORD 7 21st August 2020, 11:46 PM

Her 53rd track to do so!

Posted by: Lucas 24th August 2020, 11:08 AM

"Loud" now has 7 certified songs in the UK! And the album only has 11 tracks. Amazing

Posted by: StupidLove 25th August 2020, 12:35 AM

Very Impressive, always thought it should've been a single.

Posted by: Andrew. 25th August 2020, 02:55 PM

Impressive *.* I can't believe a Rihanna and Nicki collab is one of three songs on an album not be certified :') Idec that Nicki is problematic af, I need a Round Two between them to correct...that first collab.

Posted by: George.keh 25th August 2020, 03:02 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Aug 25 2020, 03:55 PM)

Posted by: Andrew. 25th August 2020, 03:03 PM

QUOTE(George.keh @ Aug 25 2020, 04:02 PM)

Posted by: Liam.k. 25th September 2020, 03:36 PM

Posted by: Lucas 25th September 2020, 03:36 PM

"Loud" has now gone 7x Platinum (2,100,000)!

She now has 7 million certified album units in the UK.

Posted by: Andrew. 25th September 2020, 04:11 PM

Most of those will be purchased ALBUMS as well. Pure sales legend!

QUOTE(Jay* @ Jun 21 2020, 05:53 AM)

Unfortunately no I only get to find out Good Girl Gone Bad and Loud because they're regularly in the Top 200! Streaming queen *.*

19/06/20:
2,089,078 - Loud
2,059,773 - Good Girl Gone Bad

Posted by: jlj 25th September 2020, 06:00 PM

What a huge smash!!

And an album to do it without a re-release too when a lot of big eras around that time ended up getting re releases the following Q4.

Posted by: Tafty 25th September 2020, 11:29 PM

Pretty close to it's 10th Anniversary too! How appropriate

What an album

Posted by: Lucas 23rd October 2020, 04:15 PM

"What's My Name" is now 2x Platinum!

Her 13th multi-platinum single + she's the first female artist to surpass 40 million total certified units in the UK!

Posted by: Hallo'Riheen 23rd October 2020, 04:19 PM

I had no idea that was coming!! AFSC made me realise just how much of a fave it was, still so fresh

Posted by: Liam.k. 30th October 2020, 03:46 PM

Posted by: jlj 30th October 2020, 03:54 PM

Impressive stuff.

It’s actually done great as by her standards at the time of release it felt like an underperformance.

Pretty much all of Rihanna’s material post Unapologetic was ahead of time in terms of it being the sound what streams so well now. Like if this was released in 2020 it would be a long running top 5 smash.

Posted by: Hallo'Riheen 30th October 2020, 03:55 PM

It only seemed like an underperformance at the time because it flopped on pure sales in a time where you still needed them to be high up on the chart. Issa hit.

Posted by: Liam.k. 12th November 2020, 10:53 AM

Posted by: Liam.k. 12th November 2020, 10:58 AM

Full list of BPI certifications for Rihanna songs:

3x Platinum
Love the Way You Lie (with Eminem)
This is What You Came For (with Calvin Harris)
We Found Love (with Calvin Harris)

2x Platinum
Diamonds
FourFiveSeconds (with Kanye West & Paul McCartney)
Only Girl (in the World)
Stay (with Mikky Ekko)
The Monster (with Eminem)
Too Good (with Drake)
Umbrella (with Jay-Z)
What's My Name? (with Drake)
Wild Thoughts (with DJ Khaled & Bryson Tiller)
Work (with Drake)

Platinum
All of the Lights (with Kanye West)
Bitch Better Have My Money
Don't Stop the Music
Disturbia
Live Your Life (with T.I.)
Needed Me
Pon de Replay
Princess of China (with Coldplay)
Rude Boy
Russian Roulette
Run This Town (with Jay-Z & Kanye West)
S&M
Take a Bow
Take Care
Unfaithful
Where Have You Been
Who's That Chick?

Gold
California King Bed
Hate That I Love You (with Ne-Yo)
Kiss It Better
Love on the Brain
Shut Up & Drive
SOS
Te Amo

Silver
Believe It (with PARTYNEXTDOOR)
Can't Remember to Forget You (with Shakira)
Cheers (Drink to That)
Consideration (feat. SZA)
Desperado
Fly (with Nicki Minaj)
Lemon (with N.E.R.D.)
Love the Way You Lie (Part II) (feat. Eminem)
LOYALTY. (with Kendrick Lamar)
Man Down
Pour It Up
Rehab (with Justin Timberlake)
Sex With Me
Talk That Talk (with Jay-Z)
What Now
You da One

List of uncertified singles that reached the Top 100:

American Oxygen
Hard (with Jeezy)
If I Never See Your Face Again (with Maroon 5)
If It's Lovin' that You Want
Nothing is Promised (with Mike Will Made It)
Right Now (with David Guetta)
Selfish (with Future)
Sledgehammer
Towards the Sun
Wait Your Turn
We Ride

Posted by: Andrew. 13th November 2020, 01:04 PM

Hard should go silver soon, I don't know how long the others will take though.

Posted by: Liam.k. 19th November 2020, 10:48 PM

Agreed, I imagine 'Hard' is next in line to go Silver.

'If I Never See Your Face Again' was on 130k as of February 2020 according to a Maroon 5 countdown on MTV. I'm guessing 'If It's Lovin' That You Want' and 'Right Now' are both above 100k, possibly 'Selfish' too.

Posted by: Liam.k. 27th November 2020, 04:26 PM

Posted by: Entstoday 12th December 2020, 07:51 AM

Interesting Stuff

Posted by: Liam.k. 22nd January 2021, 03:34 PM

Posted by: Liam.k. 15th March 2021, 09:50 AM

New total for 'Umbrella' - 1,540,790 as of w/e 4th March.

Posted by: Tafty 26th March 2021, 04:23 PM

7x Platinum for 'Good Girl Gone Bad'!

2,100,000+ copies sold!

Posted by: Jord 12th February 2022, 02:24 PM

Are they any further news on UK certifications?

I seen this but any news on album sales since the last update?

Posted by: Luan 23rd May 2022, 11:09 PM

UK CERTIFICATIONS


Singles

4x Platinum
Love the Way You Lie (with Eminem)
We Found Love (with Calvin Harris)

3x Platinum
This is What You Came For (with Calvin Harris)
Umbrella (with Jay-Z)
Work (with Drake)
Diamonds

2x Platinum
FourFiveSeconds (with Kanye West & Paul McCartney)
Only Girl (in the World)
Stay (with Mikky Ekko)
The Monster (with Eminem)
Too Good (with Drake)
What's My Name? (with Drake)
Wild Thoughts (with DJ Khaled & Bryson Tiller)
Rude Boy
Take Care
S&M

Platinum
All of the Lights (with Kanye West)
Bitch Better Have My Money
Don't Stop the Music
Disturbia
Live Your Life (with T.I.)
Needed Me
Pon de Replay
Princess of China (with Coldplay)
Russian Roulette
Run This Town (with Jay-Z & Kanye West)
Take a Bow
Unfaithful
Where Have You Been
Who's That Chick?
Love on the Brain

Gold
California King Bed
Hate That I Love You (with Ne-Yo)
Kiss It Better
Shut Up & Drive
SOS
Te Amo
You da One
Man Down
LOYALTY. (with Kendrick Lamar)
Believe It (with PARTYNEXTDOOR)
Lemon (with N.E.R.D.)
Rehab (with Justin Timberlake)
Can't Remember to Forget You (with Shakira)

Silver
Cheers (Drink to That)
Consideration (feat. SZA)
Desperado
Fly (with Nicki Minaj)
Love the Way You Lie (Part II) (feat. Eminem)
Pour It Up
Sex With Me
Talk That Talk (with Jay-Z)
What Now

TOTAL = 40.600.00 certified singles sales

Albuns

7x Platinum
Loud
Good Girl Gone Bad

3x Platinum
Talk That Talk

2x Platinum
A Girl Like Me
Rated R
Unapologetic

Platinum
ANTi

Gold
Music Of The Sun

TOTAL = 7.300.000 certified album sales

Posted by: Liam.k. 26th October 2022, 04:44 PM

Posted by: Liam.k. 10th November 2022, 11:22 PM

1,140,107 Disturbia (including 7,915 last week, without ACR applied)

2,192,532 Good Girl Gone Bad
435,686 Anti

Posted by: JLJ 18th February 2023, 11:45 AM

ANTI (39)
Good Girl Gone Bad (42)
and Loud (81)

Are all inside the top 100 this week on UK albums.

Wonder how many more are top 200 Unapologetic must have just missed out I presume?

Posted by: JLJ 20th February 2023, 05:49 PM

UK midweeks (albums)

ANTI - 45
Good Girl Gone Bad - 55
Loud - 93

Hopefully ANTI can sneak in another week top 40.

Definitely starting to feel like Good Girl Gone Bad has definite potential to become a top 100 staple in the way The Fame and Teenage Dream are though

Posted by: Lucas 2nd April 2023, 02:01 PM

Her 2023 certifications so far:

Stay - 3x Platinum
Disturbia - 2x Platinum
Don't Stop The Music - 2x Platinum
Needed Me - 2x Platinum
Hate That I Love You - Platinum
Cheers (Drink To That) - Gold
Pour It Up - Gold
Lift Me Up - Silver

Posted by: Lucas 2nd April 2023, 02:10 PM

Rihanna's UK Certifications

4x Platinum
Love The Way You Lie
We Found Love

3x Platinum
Diamonds
Only Girl (In The World)
Stay
This Is What You Came For
Umbrella
Wild Thoughts
Work

2x Platinum
All Of The Lights
Disturbia
Don't Stop The Music
FourFiveSeconds
Needed Me
Rude Boy
S&M
Take A Bow
Take Care
The Monster
Too Good
What's My Name?

Platinum
Bitch Better Have My Money
California King Bed
Hate That I Love You
Live Your Life
Love On The Brain
Pon de Replay
Princess Of China
Russian Roulette
Run This Town
Shut Up And Drive
SOS
Unfaithful
Where Have You Been
Who's That Chick?

Gold
Believe It
Can't Remember To Forget You
Cheers
Kiss It Better
Lemon
Loyalty.
Man Down
Pour It Up
Rehab
Te Amo
You Da One

Silver
Consideration
Desperado
Fly
Lift Me Up
Loveeeeeee Song
Love The Way You Lie (Part II)
Sex With Me
Talk That Talk
What Now

Posted by: Lucas 30th June 2023, 06:48 PM

New certifications:

This Is What You Came For - 4x Platinum
FourFiveSeconds - 3x Platinum
If It's Lovin' That You Want - Silver

Posted by: Lucas 2nd July 2023, 03:39 PM

Rihanna's UK Certifications (singles)

4x Platinum
Love The Way You Lie
We Found Love
This Is What You Came For

3x Platinum
Diamonds
Work
Umbrella
Wild Thoughts
Only Girl (In The World)
Stay
FourFiveSeconds

2x Platinum
Too Good
S&M
The Monster
Take Care
What's My Name?
Rude Boy
All Of The Lights
Take A Bow
Needed Me
Don't Stop The Music
Disturbia

Platinum
Princess Of China
Pon De Replay
Where Have You Been
Live Your Life
Run This Town
Unfaithful
Who's That Chick?
Bitch Better Have My Money
Love On The Brain
Russian Roulette
SOS
California King Bed
Shut Up And Drive
Hate That I Love You

Gold
Kiss It Better
Te Amo
Believe It
Man Down
Can't Remember To Forget You
Rehab
You Da One
Loyalty.
Lemon
Pour It Up
Cheers (Drink To That)

Silver
Fly
What Now
Desperado
Lift Me Up
Sex With Me
Consideration
Talk That Talk
Love The Way You Lie (Part II)
Loveeeeeee Song
If It's Lovin' That You Want

Posted by: Lucas 30th September 2023, 02:58 PM

New certifications:

Pon De Replay - 2x Platinum
Kiss It Better - Platinum

Posted by: Lucas 30th September 2023, 09:07 PM

Rihanna's UK Certifications (singles)

4x Platinum
Love The Way You Lie
We Found Love
This Is What You Came For

3x Platinum
Diamonds
Work
Umbrella
Wild Thoughts
Only Girl (In The World)
Stay
FourFiveSeconds

2x Platinum
Too Good
S&M
The Monster
Take Care
What's My Name?
Rude Boy
All Of The Lights
Take A Bow
Needed Me
Don't Stop The Music
Disturbia
Pon De Replay

Platinum
Princess Of China
Where Have You Been
Live Your Life
Run This Town
Unfaithful
Who's That Chick?
Bitch Better Have My Money
Love On The Brain
Russian Roulette
SOS
California King Bed
Shut Up And Drive
Hate That I Love You
Kiss It Better

Gold
Te Amo
Believe It
Man Down
Can't Remember To Forget You
Rehab
You Da One
Loyalty.
Lemon
Pour It Up
Cheers (Drink To That)

Silver
Fly
What Now
Desperado
Lift Me Up
Sex With Me
Consideration
Talk That Talk
Love The Way You Lie (Part II)
Loveeeeeee Song
If It's Lovin' That You Want

Posted by: Lucas 20th October 2023, 08:55 PM

New certification:

Desperado - Gold

Posted by: Lucas 15th December 2023, 11:18 PM

New certifications:

Love The Way You Lie - 5x Platinum
Too Good - 3x Platinum
Woo - Silver

Posted by: Lucas 23rd March 2024, 01:38 AM

New certifications:

S&M - 3x Platinum
The Monster - 3x Platinum
Live Your Life - 2x Platinum
Sex With Me - Gold
Fly - Gold

Posted by: Lucas 23rd March 2024, 01:40 AM

Rihanna's UK Certifications (singles)

5x Platinum
Love The Way You Lie

4x Platinum
We Found Love
This Is What You Came For

3x Platinum
Diamonds
Work
Umbrella
Wild Thoughts
Only Girl (In The World)
Stay
FourFiveSeconds
Too Good
S&M
The Monster

2x Platinum
Take Care
What's My Name?
Rude Boy
All Of The Lights
Take A Bow
Needed Me
Don't Stop The Music
Disturbia
Pon De Replay
Live Your Life

Platinum
Princess Of China
Where Have You Been
Run This Town
Unfaithful
Who's That Chick?
Bitch Better Have My Money
Love On The Brain
Russian Roulette
SOS
California King Bed
Shut Up And Drive
Hate That I Love You
Kiss It Better

Gold
Te Amo
Believe It
Man Down
Can't Remember To Forget You
Rehab
You Da One
Loyalty.
Lemon
Pour It Up
Cheers (Drink To That)
Fly
Sex With Me

Silver
What Now
Desperado
Lift Me Up
Consideration
Talk That Talk
Love The Way You Lie (Part II)
Loveeeeeee Song
If It's Lovin' That You Want
Woo