Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna

Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna's third studio album, came out on Def Jam in 2007, and the title wasn't kidding. The Barbadian singer traded the Caribbean lilt of Music of the Sun and A Girl Like Me for glossy pop, dance-pop and R&B streaked with 1980s synth sparkle, and swapped the innocent-girl image for something sharper and more grown-up. Brandy's Afrodisiac was the model, and a crowd of producers including Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Stargate and Timbaland built the shine.

"Umbrella" was the monster, taking the Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2008, the record's one win from seven nominations, and "Don't Stop the Music" chased it around the world. The album debuted at number two in America and hit the top in Canada, Switzerland and the UK. A 2008 reissue, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, tacked on three new songs, "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia" among them.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.