Rihanna is making history again. After receiving her 14th Billboard number 1, Rihanna is the only artist who has scored 7 consecutive numbers 1 on her 7 albums. The only album that didn’t score a number 1 was her first album.
Rihanna has now earned at least one No. 1 single on the chart from each of her last seven studio albums, all consecutively:
A Girl Like Me (2006): “SOS”
Good Girl Gone Bad (2007): “Umbrella,” “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia”
Rated R (2009): “Rude Boy”
Loud (2010): “What’s My Name?,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “S&M”
Talk That Talk (2011): “We Found Love”
Unapologetic (2012): “Diamonds”
Anti (2016): “Work”
According to Billboard Rihanna is the only artist with No. 1 Hot 100 singles from seven consecutive studio albums. Rihanna’s other three No. 1s aren’t from her own albums, and have been in featured roles: on T.I.’s “Live Your Life” (2008) and Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” (2010) and “The Monster” (2013-14). The only artist to reach similar territory is Mariah Carey with 6 consecutive number 1’s.