Good Girl Gone Bad is now Rihanna’s first release to spend five years, or 260 weeks, on the U.K.’s … [+]
Rihanna recently announced that new music is on the way, though perhaps not in the form that many fans were hoping. The pop superstar is set to co-star in the upcoming Smurfs movie, and she is reportedly behind some of the tunes that will be featured in the animated film as well.
Ahead of the world actually getting to hear what Rihanna’s been working on, the singer reaches a special milestone. One of her most successful albums, which has become a huge streaming success recently, long after it was first released, brings the Grammy winner to a landmark she’s never seen before.
Good Girl Gone Bad climbs two spaces on the main list of the most-consumed albums in the United Kingdom. As it soars, the title hits 260 weeks, or exactly five years, on the tally. Rihanna has never before come close to keeping a project on the competitive chart for half a decade. Good Girl Gone Bad is far and away her longest-running win, and it more than doubles the number of frames spent on this list by her second-longest-charting title, Loud, which has racked up 112 stays somewhere on the roster.
Rihanna’s beloved Good Girl Gone Bad appears on two charts across the pond this week. The set rises on both of them, thanks to continued interest in not just the project, but the many singles that were spun off from it.
In addition to the main and most closely-watched list of the top-consumed albums in the country, Rihanna also steps up five spaces to No. 41 on the Official Albums Streaming chart.
The multi-genre musician debuted Good Girl Gone Bad on the U.K. albums chart in the summer of 2007, when she was still rising to her peak of popularity. In the years since, the collection has enjoyed rising and falling on the list and also onto and off of the ranking, as it will sometimes disappear for months or even a decade at a time (in one instance), only to mount a comeback as fans remember how much they love her music.
Good Girl Gone Bad marked Rihanna’s first No. 1 album in the U.K., a position it reached the moment it arrived. She would follow that up with three more winners in Loud, Talk That Talk, and Unapologetic. Another trio of projects also cracked the top 10, with A Girl Like Me, Anti, and Rated R peaking at Nos. 5, 7, and 9, respectively.
Lately, Good Girl Gone Bad has been climbing on charts globally thanks to the resurgence of one of its tracks that never earned single status. “Breakin’ Dishes” went viral not long ago, and is still collecting an impressive number of streams all around the planet every week. This frame, it steps up two spaces on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Singles chart to No. 21, approaching its all-time peak of No. 17, which it reached within the last four weeks.
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