Rihanna celebrates the 5th anniversary of her eighth studio album, ANTI.

 

 

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ANTI is the follow-up to Rihanna’s seventh studio album, Unapologetic.  According to Rihanna, she decided she ‘wanted honest music and a body of work that reflected and represented her at that time.’  Suffering from writer’s block, Rihanna decided to rent a house in Malibu for a couple of months and along with her team, began writing and composing the album.  At that time, Rihanna shared, “It was in that moment that I trusted myself, trusted my ear, trusted my gut, trusted the way that my music made me feel.  I had no idea how it would be received, neither was that something I considered.  I just wanted to make a body of work that felt right.”

 

 

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Album Facts

  • The album reached No.1 in over countries.
  • ANTI peaked at No.1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart within its first full week.
  • Seven weeks after its release, the album had been streamed over 275 million times on Spotify.
  • ANTI spent 249 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the longest charting album by a black female artist in Billboard 200 history.
  • In 2016, ANTI became the third most-streamed album and Rihanna was named as the most-streamed female artist of the year.
  • ANTI was nominated for ‘Best Urban Contemporary Album’ and ‘Best Recording Package’ at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated for ‘Top R&B Album’ at the 2016 and 2017 Billboard Music Awards, and won ‘Fav. Soul/R&B Album’ at the 2016 American Music Awards.

 

Listen to ANTI below.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RyInjfgNc4

 

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