Posted October 26, 20222 yr Rihanna’s official Top 40 biggest songs ever 26 October 2022 | By Carl Smith Look, we totally get that Rihanna's busy with her baby boy, business ventures and that upcoming baseball game, but we're absolutely gagging for some new music. Well now, with RiRi announcing her NFL Super Bowl halftime show slot and rumours swirling of a Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack song or two, it seems we might be in luck. As we keep everything crossed for our first, proper Rihanna music since 2016 album ANTI, we thought it was about time we gave you an update on her Official Top 40 biggest songs in the UK so far. From 2005 debut Pon De Replay to collaborations with the likes of Eminem, Calvin Harris, David Guetta and actual Paul McCartney, it's a discography that cements RiRi as one of the 21st century's most influential artists. Before we get to the full list, let's delve into the Top 5, shall we? 5. Diamonds Released: 2012 Official Singles Chart peak: 1 Total UK chart units: 1.94 million The first track lifted from her 2012 LP Unapologetic, Sia-penned single Diamonds has shifted total UK chart units of 1.94 million to date; including 1.1 million downloads and 103 million streams. 4. Work (Rihanna featuring Drake) Released: 2016 Official Singles Chart peak: 2 Total UK chart units: 1.95 million The lead single from her eighth studio album ANTI, Drake duet Work comes in at Number 4 on RiRi's all-time list. The track, which peaked at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart behind Lukas Graham's 7 Years, boasts total UK streams of 178 million and counting. 3. This Is What You Came For (Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna) Released: 2016 Official Singles Chart peak: 2 Total UK chart units: 2.2 million Rihanna's feature on 2016 Calvin Harris track This Is What You Came For (famously including a writing credit from Taylor Swift - initially under the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg), is her third-biggest track in the UK so far. It's also worth nothing that the collab is Rihanna's most-streamed song to date. Since its release, the song's accumulated a total of 200 million streams across audio and video platforms. 2. We Found Love (Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris) Released: 2011 Official Singles Chart peak: 1 Total UK chart units: 2.4 million RiRi's second Calvin team-up to make her all-time Top 5, lead Talk That Talk single We Found Love slips one place on this place since our last update. A true product of the early 2010s, though, We Found Love remains Rihanna's most-downloaded single. The track boasts a total of 1.4 million downloads in the UK to date. 1. Love The Way You Lie (Eminem featuring Rihanna) Released: 2010 Official Singles Chart peak: 2 Total UK chart units: 2.6 million Reigning atop the list of Rihanna's Official biggest songs in the UK is Eminem feature Love The Way You Lie. Lifted from the Detroit rapper's 2010 album Recovery, the song has racked up combined streams of 181 million since its release; with its total chart units standing at 2.6 million to date. Rihanna's Official Top 40 biggest songs: POS TITLE ARTIST CHART PEAK 1 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 2 2 WE FOUND LOVE RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 1 3 THIS IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR CALVIN HARRIS FT RIHANNA 2 4 WORK RIHANNA FT DRAKE 2 5 DIAMONDS RIHANNA 1 6 UMBRELLA RIHANNA FT JAY-Z 1 7 WILD THOUGHTS DJ KHALED FT RIHANNA/TILLER 1 8 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA 1 9 FOURFIVE SECONDS RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY 3 10 TOO GOOD DRAKE FT RIHANNA 3 11 STAY RIHANNA FT MIKKY EKKO 4 12 THE MONSTER EMINEM FT RIHANNA 1 13 S&M RIHANNA 3 14 TAKE CARE DRAKE FT RIHANNA 9 15 WHAT'S MY NAME RIHANNA FT DRAKE 1 16 RUDE BOY RIHANNA 2 17 ALL OF THE LIGHTS KANYE WEST FT RIHANNA 15 18 TAKE A BOW RIHANNA 1 19 NEEDED ME RIHANNA 38 20 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC RIHANNA 4 21 DISTURBIA RIHANNA 3 22 PRINCESS OF CHINA COLDPLAY & RIHANNA 4 23 LIVE YOUR LIFE TI FT RIHANNA 2 24 PON DE REPLAY RIHANNA 2 25 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN RIHANNA 6 26 RUN THIS TOWN JAY-Z FT RIHANNA & KANYE WEST 1 27 WHO'S THAT CHICK DAVID GUETTA FT RIHANNA 6 28 UNFAITHFUL RIHANNA 2 29 BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY RIHANNA 27 30 LOVE ON THE BRAIN RIHANNA 124 31 RUSSIAN ROULETTE RIHANNA 2 32 SOS RIHANNA 2 33 CALIFORNIA KING BED RIHANNA 8 34 SHUT UP AND DRIVE RIHANNA 5 35 HATE THAT I LOVE YOU RIHANNA FT NE-YO 15 36 KISS IT BETTER RIHANNA 46 37 TE AMO RIHANNA 14 38 BELIEVE IT PARTYNEXTDOOR & RIHANNA 12 39 MAN DOWN RIHANNA 54 40 CAN'T REMEMBER TO FORGET YOU SHAKIRA FT RIHANNA 11 ©2022 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...3BMZOPkXRttX2xw
October 26, 20222 yr What a hit-maker! Imagine having a 10 week #1 to your name that genuinely felt huge and that not even being within your top 5 biggest songs nowadays. 'SOS' only #32 too :o Justice for 'Rehab' x
October 26, 20222 yr Surprised Beautiful Liar isn't in there considering it was a no 1! Thats a Beyonce and Shakira track not a Rihanna one
October 26, 20222 yr Author 'Princess of China' was on 963k as of June 2021 and will definitely be a million seller by now (which confirms that 'Needed Me', 'Don't Stop the Music' and 'Disturbia' are also million sellers, but still below 1.2m (2x Platinum). Curious to know if any below it our million sellers too. 'California King Bed' and above are all over 600k (Platinum).
October 26, 20222 yr The fact that Umbrella is such a notable, widely recognisable hit and not even in her top 5 sellers (although the dire sales climate of the mid 00's does somewhat account for that). :cheeseblock: She has so many #2s as well, many of which would have been very deserved #1s. (Also I thought OCC had been re-crunching the sales numbers, where is the retroactive justice for Needed Me? Rihanna deserves this as much as Sam and Arctics, I refuse to believe this was a #38!!!)
October 26, 20222 yr Interesting that LTWYL outstreams We Found Love despite the latter being her biggest pure seller - the latter feels so much bigger and well regarded. Wow so she has at least 22 millionaires then. :o Not really surprised Beautiful Liar isn't there as it only sold about 300k in 2007 and felt very of its time so anything with a good number of downloads or streams will have outdone it.
October 26, 20222 yr Not really surprised Beautiful Liar isn't there as it only sold about 300k in 2007 and felt very of its time so anything with a good number of downloads or streams will have outdone it. It also doesn't feature Rihanna on it. :kink:
October 26, 20222 yr So what about a Greatest Hits then RiRi.....! 1's & 2's alone could make a double CD. Leave it any longer and there will be nothing to sell once album sales disappear :o I've bought 7 Rihanna tracks since 2012-ish and some of them not even in her biggest 40 :o (Sledgehammer, Wild Thoughts, Towards The Sun) and only have stuff on Now albums before that (PON DE REPLAY (Now 62)/ IF IT'S LOVIN THAT YOU WANT (Now 63)/ SOS (Now 64)/ UNFAITHFUL (Now 65)/ UMBRELLA (Now 67)/ SHUT UP AND DRIVE (Now 68)/ DON'T STOP THE MUSIC (Now 69)/ TAKE A BOW (Now 70)/ DISTURBIA (Now 71)/ LIVE YOUR LIFE (Now 72)/ RUN THIS TOWN (Now 74)/ ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD (Now 77)/ RUDE BOY (Now 75)/ RUSSIAN ROULETTE (Now 75)/ S&M (Now 78)/ WHO'S THAT CHICK (Now 78)/ WHAT'S MY NAME (Now 78)/ CALIFORNIA KING BED (Now 79)/ WE FOUND LOVE (Now 80)/ CHEERS (DRINK TO THAT) (Now 80)) so there's loads I don't have. Doh!
October 26, 20222 yr She's spoilt for choice if she ever wanted to do a Greatest Hits. We need another studio album first though!!!
October 26, 20222 yr Rihanna really does have an insane back catalog of hits, it’s crazy to think how she just had a constant steam of singles out for several years. I almost forgot about Love the way you lie in terms of it being her top seller, was expecting We Found Love. Umbrella brings a good point, managing 10 weeks at No1 in those days when people buying records was how you got there was some achievement.
October 26, 20222 yr Needed Me, Too Good & FourFiveSeconds are far too high for my liking ugh. SOS, Unfaithful deserve more :(
October 26, 20222 yr About Umbrella, look at it this way. Don't Stop The Music and Disturbia were bigger than Needed Me, SOS was literally one of THE biggest hit songs of 2006, so obviously bigger than Love On The Brain or Bitch Better Have My Money. So it's the same with Umbrella vs. We Found Love and Love The Way You Lie. Only Girl was released between those two and was able to sell like 120,000 a week at #1. Umbrella was probably doing less than a quater of that on some of its weeks at #1. OCC should maybe try something like this. For Umbrella: (Umbrella sales in 2007 / total sales in 2007) + (Umbrella sales in 2008 / total sales in 2008) + (Umbrella sales in 2009 / total sales in 2009) + etc.... And do this for every Rihanna song and then total up the results. In fact that's probably what they should do for all their artists rankings, and their all-time charts. And even the past couple of decade-end charts had very weird results and maybe might have looked more normal if they were weighted by year.
October 26, 20222 yr Umbrella has actually moved up the pecking order since the OCC's original 'Millionaires' list in autumn 2017 which had it as her 9th highest, below Only Girl (In The World), Too Good and The Monster, so I'm glad it's overtaken those at least.
October 26, 20222 yr The fact her back catalogue performs well on streaming bodes well for the future if we are indeed getting closer to a new album.
October 26, 20222 yr Needed Me peaking at #38 and being on over a million units feels peculiar to me! It's currently third on her Spotify, so it's clearly resonated over the years, even if it never managed truly huge sales on a weekly basis in 2016. I was never overly keen on it, and didn't listen to it much, so it doesn't feel big to me personally... even though it evidently is. :kink: OCC have stated that Love on the Brain peaked at #124, but its peak is #145. Chart Run: [175-out-163-145-146-out]. Its peak was achieved in November 2016. The only thing I can think of is whether at some point since July 2017 it has made it as high as #124 in what is now referred to as the "old rules" Top 200 (only the industry gets to see this chart). Anyway, regardless of what its peak is, it's weird to see a non-Top 100 hit of hers higher placed than two of her #2 hits! Despite it not taking off in the UK, it's #1 on her Spotify and closing in on a billion worldwide streams. Like others, Umbrella not being in her Top 5 looks curious, but hopefully it makes it in there soon. I assume it's doing better every week than Diamonds, but is still playing catch up. Too Good seemed bland to me at the time and it becoming her longest running Top 10 hit is truly bizarre. Wow at This Is What You Came For being as high as third. I love that song but I'd still say that's too high up. P.S. I'm sure Beautiful Liar must be at #41! ( :kink: I'm kidding x)
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