Barbadian recording artist
Rihanna has released six
studio albums, three
compilation albums, forty official
singles, three
charity singles, one
promotional single and eight
other appearances. In 2005 Rihanna signed a record deal with
Def Jam Recordings to launch her career. Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide since the beginning of her career, which makes her one of the
best selling artists of all time.
She has released four
Recording Industry Association of America certified platinum and multi-platinum albums in the United States. Rihanna has attained eleven number-one songs on the
Billboard Hot 100, making her just the seventh artist to earn this plateu in the 53-year history of the chart.
Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the seventeenth artist of the same decade.