Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on May 31, 2007, by Def Jam Recordings and SRP Records. Rihanna worked with various producers on the album, including Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Neo da Matrix, Timbaland, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and Stargate. Inspired by Brandy Norwood's fourth studio album Afrodisiac (2004), Good Girl Gone Bad is a pop, dance-pop and R&B record with 1980s music influences. Described as a turning point in Rihanna's career, it represents a departure from the Caribbean sound of her previous releases, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006). Apart from the sound, she also endorsed a new image for the release going from an innocent young woman to an edgier, more mature look.

The album received seven Grammy Award nominations and one win in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category for "Umbrella" at the 2008 ceremony. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold 162,000 copies in its first week. Certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it sold more than 2.8 million copies in the United States. The album reached number one in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. According to IFPI, Good Girl Gone Bad has sold 3.6 million copies worldwide and became the 12th best-selling album of 2007 worldwide.

This album made Rihanna from the "Pon De Replay Singer" to a worldwide hitmaker. Spawning a total of five hit singles from the standard edition, the biggest of them by far was the lead single Umbrella featuring Jay-Z. A reissue of the record was released about a year later spawning more hits such as Take a Bow and Disturbia. In the end, the album as a whole released a total of 8 singles, with nearly all of them having a notable amount of commercial success.

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