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Five years ago today, Rihanna's Anti dropped as her first album since 2012's Unapologetic, and thus her first major release following the streaming boom of the mid-'10s.

Despite the issue-plague release, the album debuted to strong reception -- a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and some of her strongest reviews to date -- and its reputation has only grown in the half-decade since. At the end of 2019, it finished towards the top of many lists of the best albums of the 2010s (including Billboard's, where it finished No. 7), as its free-flowing nature, mostly bite-sized tracks and generally intense vibiness generally helped make it a perfect pop album for the streaming era, with nearly every song turning into some kind of fan favorite.

TOTAL U.S. ON-DEMAND STREAMS:

1. "Work" (1,334,838,000 streams)

2. "Needed Me" (1,081,351,000 streams)

3. "Love on the Brain" (792,957,000 streams)

4. "Kiss It Better" (360,881,000 streams)

5. "Sex With Me" (345,009,000 streams)

6. "Desperado" (243,571,000 streams)

7. "Yeah, I Said It" (177,397,000 streams)

8. "Same Ol' Mistakes" (136,200,000 streams)

9. "Higher" (131,614,000 streams)

10 "Woo" (105,658,000 streams)

11. "Close to You" (92,274,000 streams)

12. "James Joint" (78,548,000 streams)

13. "Consideration" (77,645,000 streams)*

14. "Never Ending" (64,545,000 streams)

15. "Pose" (53,468,000 streams)

16. "Goodnight Gotham" (41,604,000 streams)

TOTAL: 5,117,560,000

 

*(They most likely got the streams of "Consideration" wrong )

 

TOTAL U.S. DIGITAL SONG SALES:

1. "Work" (1,906,000 sales)

2. "Love on the Brain" (1,222,000 sales)

3. "Needed Me" (1,212,000 sales)

4. "Sex With Me" (344,000 sales)

5. "Kiss It Better" (313,000 sales)

6. "Desperado" (192,000 sales)

7. "Consideration" (90,000 sales)

8. "Yeah, I Said It" (82,000 sales)

9. "Same Ol' Mistakes" (66,000 sales)

10. "Higher" (57,000 sales)

11. "Close to You" (51,000 sales)

12. "Woo" (39,000 sales)

13. "Pose" (34,000 sales)

14. "Never Ending" (28,000 sales)

15. "James Joint" (15,000 sales)

16. "Goodnight Gotham" (14,000 sales)

TOTAL: 5,665,000

 

Going with their numbers,

 

TOTAL CONSUMPTION:

1. "Work" (10,805,000)

2. "Needed Me" (8,421,000)

3. "Love on the Brain" (6,508,000)

4. "Kiss It Better" (2,719,000)

5. "Sex With Me" (2,644,000)

6. "Desperado" (1,816,000)

7. "Yeah, I Said It" (1,265,000)

8. "Same Ol' Mistakes" (974,000)

9. "Higher" (934,000)

10. "Woo" (743,000)

11. "Close to You" (666,000)

12. "Consideration" (608,000)*

13. "James Joint" (539,000)

14. "Never Ending" (458,000)

15. "Pose" (390,000)

16. "Goodnight Gotham" (291,000)

 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9517469/rihanna-anti-most-streamed-songs/

 

A monster

I wish they would release stats like this for every album

 

Work eligible for 10-11× Platinum  Kiss It Better coming for 3x Platinum when all is said & done,  justice

Omg. Massive

LOTB to become a classic.

AN ERA!!!!!!!

 

 

“Needed Me” SLAYING like this!

 

She’s coming!

 

the ORHs are about to fume  

this is massive  Work going past diamond, so much for a "forgotten" hit 

The era was so huge damn 

absolutely MASSIVE numbers, well deserved 

14 minutes ago, umich said:

the ORHs are about to fume  

As always!

 

”NM” and “LOTB” have bigger stats than some lead singles but alas...

 

SaMSuNG1!1!1!1

 

Caribbean girls run it, ask RiRi 

Work a DIAMOND SIZED SMASH 

I can't believe this has been half a decade.

The way Riri has decided to punish us with her absence. She won't even due features. 

The absolute slayage

Holy sh*t these numbers are huge, I didn't know Work was Diamond eligible 

Omg this was a massive era

Work being diamond

Needed Me 8x Platinum

LOTB 6x Platinum

7 songs being Platinum

She went out on a high  

 

Wtf these numbers are massive

Not 5 billion streams only in the US! That is HUGE, especially for an era in 2016, at the start of the streaming years 

Work eligible for DIAMOND?!  Why is her team not updating this and WFL 

LOTB at 6.5 MILLION units, so much for being a radio hit  

Eligible 4x Platinum

Omg I didn't expect the numbers to be this huge 

SMASH FROM TOP TO BOTTOM 

Forgotten hit Work behind diamond

radio fueled LOTB being 6x plat

NM 8x plat 

ANTI having 5B strihms just in the US as a 2016 rihlease is MASSIVE

48 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Woo" (105,658,000 streams)

Woo won

Not #7 peaking Needed Me sneaking it's way towards diamond as well  

Never Ending was done wrong!!! But damn, ANTi really had the last laugh...420 who?!

Shook. What an era that was