In a land and time far away from the one we know, Rihanna‘s last studio album – 2016’s ‘Anti’ – was considered a commercial failure thanks to a murky rollout and a slew of non-starting singles.
Fast forward to 2022, the LP is one of the best-performing projects of the millennium (commercially and critically), an ongoing victory that’s continually underscored by successes announced at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard.
This week, the latter unveiled news of yet another groundbreaking milestone attributed to the opus which – as of time reported – has sold over 11 million copies worldwide.
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Already penciled in history books for being the first album by a Black female artist to secure 200 weeks on the Billboard 200 (as we reported here), the refreshed edition of the chart finds ‘Anti’ at #125 in its 301st week of charting.
With this news, the ‘Work’-housing LP becomes the first album by a Black female artist to work its way past the 300-week threshold on the main album chart.
Extending its reign as one of the longest-running albums in the history of the Billboard 200 (among all women), only Adele‘s ’21’ (527 weeks), Lana Del Rey‘s ‘Born To Die’ (418), Taylor Swift‘s ‘1989’ (373 weeks), and Carole King‘s ‘Tapestry’ (318 weeks) have accumulated more time on the tally.