^ 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!

 

Nice to see some updated sales.

 

2 albums above 2 million now :wub:

Opening posts are now updated, thanks again Jay! :D

ANTI had sold 272,632 as of 1st March.

ANTI has sold 28,770 in 41 weeks, which is ~700 sales per week. With a new album almost guaranteed for this year, will we finally be seeing this certified Platinum?! *.*

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

 

 

Not at all We found love is one of the best tracks of the last ten years and a song that stands up there with the classic million sellers. I also think Only girl and Love the way you lie are pretty much classics.

 

- Work

- The Monster

- Four five seconds

- This is what you came for

- Too good

- Wild thoughts

- Stay

- What's my name

 

None of the above are classic huge songs their sales don't reflect their impact. Oh rather million sellers now are not that special and don't reflect those one of a kind success stories.

 

If you asked the general public to name a million seller I highly doubt they would say "Oh Wild thoughts by Rihanna!"

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

 

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!

If you asked the general public to name a million seller I highly doubt they would say "Oh Wild thoughts by Rihanna!"

 

Wild Thoughts is not a 'million seller', it's a 'millionaire'...

Wild Thoughts is not a 'million seller', it's a 'millionaire'...

It's also a stone cold classic less than two years later! Spiceboy, u okay hun? x

Well, speaking of million-sellers, "FourFiveSeconds" has just been certified 2x Platinum (1,200,000)! :cheer:

Rihanna's 11th multi-platinum single, breaking a tie with Ed Sheeran.

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!

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 :lol:

 

 

@1149686096558563328

I count 26 Platinum singles! :o

Was just going to post this!

 

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

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.

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

@1149686096558563328

I count 26 Platinum singles! :o

27 actually

Platinum exactly 2 years after it went Gold :o 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).

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

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.

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

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.

 

I agree with that. I hear Pon De Replay a lot now when I go on nights out. I even hear it more than stuff like Umbrella as well!

 

I feel like Pon De Replay is one of those songs what hasn’t really aged badly. Some of the stuff on her second and third albums sound dated but her debut album doesn’t necessarily sound dated it’s just a bit not to my taste but it is current sounding.

 

It’s a song what I used to forget about in terms of her discography tbh but overtime I’ve grown to really appreciate it and it being her debut major single makes it special as it’s essentially where it all started for her.

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. :lol: Definitely one I hear very regularly and just doesn't get old.