While some fans are wallowing in their 10th year without a new Rihanna album, everyone’s favorite Bajan Bad Gal is celebrating the massive success her ANTI album has generated during that period.
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On Jan. 28, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of her era-defining opus, the Recording Industry Association of America revealed new certifications for nine different ANTI tracks, including a jaw-dropping eighth Diamond certification for Ri thanks to the success of “Love on the Brain.”
The doo-wop-infused ballad soared to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 2017, and its new certification helps Rihanna extend her record as the female artist with the most Diamond singles in RIAA history. “Love” joins fellow ANTI smashes “Needed Me” and “Work” (with Drake), which earn new 12x Platinum and 11x Platinum certifications, respectively. Her other Diamond tracks are her Eminem collab “Love the Way You Lie,” “Stay,” “We Found Love” with Calvin Harris, “Umbrella” and “Diamonds.”
Additional new ANTI RIAA certifications include fresh plaques for “Kiss It Better” (quadruple Platinum), “Sex with Me” (quadruple Platinum), “Desperado” (triple Platinum), the SZA-assisted “Consideration” (double Platinum) and “Woo” (Platinum). Currently certified sextuple Platinum, ANTI also remains the longest-charting album by a Black female artist on the Billboard 200, with more than 508 weeks and counting.
Rihanna’s latest commercial achievements come amid a particularly busy — and successful — week for the household she shares with partner A$AP Rocky. On. Jan. 26, Rocky scored his first Billboard 200 No. 1 album in more than a decade with Don’t Be Dumb, which Rihanna celebrated via X, writing, “Just me here to let yall know my baby daddy got the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! DONT BE DUMB!!!”
Though a new album still eludes the Rihanna Navy, their fearless leader hasn’t been completely musically absent in the years since ANTI‘s release. In 2023, she headlined the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show, which arrived just months after she dropped her Grammy and Oscar-nominated Black Panther: Wakanda Forever theme, “Lift Me Up.” Last year, she voiced Smurfette in Smurfs and welcomed her third child (and first girl!) with Rocky.
See the RIAA’s celebration of Ri below:
