A Girl like Me (Rihanna album)

A Girl like Me is the second studio album by R & B singer Rihanna. It was released in April 2006.

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Less than a month after the release of Rihanna's debut album Music of the Sun already started work on the successor, so that the promotion for the first album and the studio recordings for A Girl like Me took place several months in parallel. A large part of the title was written by the two producers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken who've been largely responsible for the debut album. More songs originated among others by JR Rotem and Norwegian production duo the Stargate.

For Rihanna A Girl like Me is a very personal album, she sings about things she has seen and experienced that could have made ​​it as a girl. For the artist, the music is the way to express yourself. It processed influences from the 1980s, from the rock and reggae as well as from the R & B.

Criticism

The album met with mixed reviews. The Billboard Magazine was surprised by the refreshing versatility of the artist on the album and stands next to the hit single SOS especially the hit potential of Break It Off forth, a collaboration with Sean Paul. The online magazine laut.de described the album as a quick shot that " however thoroughly backfired [ goes ] ", in addition to the hit single SOS have the " sad rest ... with a cheerful party music about as much in common as Rihanna with Gloria Jones ". The magazine Rolling Stone noted that in comparison to the debut album less "filler" on the album are located, are that the light-footed dance hall but could not hold throughout the standard of SOS. The magazine Spin wrote that the album could have been better "A Girl like Ashanti " told and believes that in particular " Dem Haters " sounds very immature.

Success

A Girl like Me was commercially more successful than its predecessor. In the U.S. and the UK, the album reached number 5 in the charts in Germany, it came out to position 13 A total of over 3.3 million copies were sold worldwide.

Of the four coupled- singles (SOS, Unfaithful, We Ride and Break It Off ) SOS and Unfaithful advanced to become international hits; with SOS Rihanna was able to record her first number -one hit.

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Singles

The first single from this album, SOS, the U.S. and in April the European singles chart in February, and until then was Rihanna's most commercially successful song, based on a sample of the 1981 hit Tainted Love by Soft Cell. This song was the jingle for the sporting goods manufacturer Nike and for the department store chain JC Penney.

Other singles from A Girl like Me is the ballad Unfaithful and We Ride, the first single of the singer, not the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. reached. On 1 December 2006, the song entered the German single charts, on # 45 - Rihanna's first chart entry to date outside the top 30 as the fourth and final single from their second album was in the U.S. and Canada the recorded together with Sean Paul song Break It Off released, which of the Billboard Hot in the USA came to No. 9 100.