Rihanna
January 24th 2008 21:15
Since bursting onto the music scene in 2005, global R&B sensation Rihanna has released a total of three albums - Music of the Sun, A Girl like Me and Good Girl Gone Bad - with sales topping the 15 million unit mark worldwide.
The Barbadian singer counts her Caribbean background as one of her major musical influences along with fellow singers Alicia Keys and Beyoncé Knowles.
Her debut album, Music of the Sun, was released in mid 2005 and spawned the hit singles "Pon de Replay", "If It's Lovin' That You Want" and "Let Me". The album was a great commercial success for a debut album from a new artist with over 2 millions sold worldwide.
Just seven months later, Rihanna released her sophomore album A Girl like Me - a more mature album with old rock and roll influences - which spawned the worldwide No.1 smash hit "SOS" as the album's lead single plus "Unfaithful", "We Ride" and "Break It Off".
The album launched Rihanna to worldwide superstardom and the singer cleaned out most of the 2006 music award ceremonies on the back of this successful album and number one hit "SOS".
In June 2007, Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad was released to huge fanfare on the back of "Umbrella", the smash hit No.1 single and one of the most successful songs of 2007 spawned by the album. The song itself has been announced as the 9th most successful song of the last decade and received three nominations at the Grammy Award of the same year.
The album itself has been critically acclaimed worldwide and received a total of six Grammy Award nominations and continues to sell well on top of the 4 million odd units it has already sold since it was first released.
Check out the following video of Rihanna performing "Umbrella".
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