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Rihanna Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Her Last Album ANTI: ‘My 2016 Post Wins’
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- Rihanna celebrated the 10th anniversary of her most recent album ANTI
- The R&B and pop megastar marked the occasion with an Instagram Reel on Wednesday, Jan. 28 nodding to the 2016 throwback trend
- Rihanna’s eighth studio album ANTI was released in 2016
Rihanna honored a huge album anniversary!
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, the R&B and pop megastar celebrated the 10th anniversary of her album ANTI.
Rihanna, 37, shared a sweet Instagram tribute pointing to the viral 2016 throwback trend.
The “Umbrella” hitmaker shared an Instagram Reel of highlights that appeared to be from that period.
At first, the visual kicks off with the definition of “anti” as “a person opposed to a particular policy, activity or idea.”
The text reads over the footage reads “The longest charting album by a Black female artist,” as “Needed Me” plays in the background.
RiRi can then be heard saying, “This is like, a song I love,” as “Kiss It Better” plays.
In the video clips, the “California King Bed” artist could also could be seen rehearsing for the tour and then shared her gratitude for the team of people who helped her craft the album
“We all come from different parts of the world, different families, different backgrounds, different lives, different pasts, and we somehow ended up here. And because of that we were all able to make this album ANTI that the world is yet to receive and hear. Thank you,” she says.
After sharing more footage from the ANTI era, “Work” plays in the background.
“my 2016 post wins,” she captioned the post. “happy ANTIversary 🙏🏿🎈⏳.”
On her eighth studio album’s anniversary, Rihanna also extended “her historic record of the most diamond [singles] by a female artist in RIAA history,” as ANTI became “the longest charting album by a Black female musician in music history,” per a press release.
“Love on the Brain,” “Needed Me” and “Work” ft. Drake went 12x platinum and 11x platinum, respectively. Her other diamond tracks are her Eminem collab “Love the Way You Lie,” “Stay,” “We Found Love” with Calvin Harris, “Umbrella” and “Diamonds.”
According to the RIAA, “Kiss It Better” and “Sex with Me” went quadruple platinum; “Desperado” went triple platinum; “Consideration” ft. SZA went double platinum; and “Woo” and “James Joint” went platinum.
The last album Rihanna released was ANTI in January 2016. Throughout the years she has occasionally dropped stand-alone singles and was featured on a few tracks. However, fans have eagerly anticipated ANTI‘s follow-up.
Last year, Rihanna told Harper’s Bazaar that she “cracked the code” on the sonic direction for her ninth studio album.
“This much time away from music needs to count for the next thing everyone hears,” she said at the time. “It has to count. It has to matter. I have to show them the worth in the wait. I cannot put up anything mediocre.”
Rihanna noted that the project is “not going to be anything that anybody expects.”
She added, “And it’s not going to be commercial or radio digestible. It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now.”
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