A girl like me

chronology
A girl like me
Studio album by Rihanna
Publication ; (s)	April 19, 2006
admission	October 2005 - February 2006
Label (s)	Def Jam , SRP
Genre (s)	Dance-Pop , R&B
Title (number)	13
running time	46:16
production	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Poke & Tone, Stargate, The Conglomerate, JR Rotem, Mike City
Studio (s)	various
February 1 , 2006	SOS
July 2nd , 2006	Unfaithful
3rd August 21, 2006	We ride
4th December 14, 2006	Break it off

A Girl like Me (. En for: "A girl like me" ) is the second studio album by R & B - singer Rihanna . It was released in April 2006.

useful information

Less than a month after Rihanna's debut album Music of the Sun was released , work on the successor began, so that the promotion for the first album and the studio recordings for A Girl like Me took place in parallel for a few months. Much of the title was written by the two producers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, who were already responsible for the debut album. Other songs came from a. by J. R. Rotem and the Norwegian producer duo Stargate .

For Rihanna, A Girl Like Me is a very personal album, she sings about things she's been through and about experiences a girl like her might have had. For the artist, music is an opportunity to express oneself. She processed influences from the 1980s, from rock and reggae as well as from R&B .

criticism

The album received mixed reviews. Billboard magazine was surprised by the artist's refreshing versatility on the album and, in addition to the hit single SOS , especially emphasized the hit potential of Break It Off , a collaboration with Sean Paul . The online magazine laut.de described the album as a quick shot, which "but it backfires thoroughly". In addition to the hit single SOS , the "sad rest ... with happy party music have about as much in common as Rihanna with Gloria Jones". The Rolling Stone notes that although there were fewer “fillers” on the album compared to the debut album, the light-footed dancehall could not keep the SOS standard throughout. The magazine Spin writes that the album would have been better called "A Girl like Ashanti " and says that "Dem Haters" in particular sounds very immature.

success

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

Chart placements
Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	13 (37 weeks)	37
Austria (Ö3)	21st (23 weeks)	23
Switzerland (IFPI)	6th (39 weeks)	39
United Kingdom (OCC)	5 (43 weeks)	43
United States (Billboard)	5 (45 weeks)	45

Track list

#	title	Composers	length
1	SOS	Ed Cobb, Jonathan Rotem, Evan Bogart	4:00
2	Kisses don't lie	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Rihanna Fenty	3:52
3	Unfaithful	Stargate, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Shaffer Smith	3:48
4th	We ride	Mikkel S. Eriksen, Makeba Riddick	3:56
5	The Haters featuring Dwane Husbands	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, M. Hallim, V. Morgan, Michael Flowers, Aion Clarke	4:19
6th	Final goodbye	Curtis Richardson, Luke McMaster, Charlene Gilliam	3:14
7th	Break It Off featuring Sean Paul	Sean Paul Henriques, Rihanna Fenty, Donovan Bennett, K. Ford	3:34
8th	Crazy Little Thing Called Love featuring J-Status	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken	3:23
9	Selfish girl	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken	3:38
10	PS (I'm Still Not Over You)	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken	4:11
11	A girl like me	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Rihanna Fenty	4:18
12	A Million Miles Away	Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken	4:11
13	If It's Lovin 'That You Want (Part II) (featuring Cory Gunz)	Jean Claude Olivier, Samuel J. Barnes, Alaxsander Mosely, Scott Larock, Lawrence Parker	4:08

Singles

The first single from this album, SOS , which hit the US singles charts in February and the European singles charts in April and was Rihanna's most commercially successful song to date, is based on a sample of Soft Cell's 1981 hit Tainted Love . This song was the promotional melody for the sporting goods manufacturer Nike and for the department store chain JC Penney .

Other singles from A Girl like Me include the ballad Unfaithful and We Ride , the singer's first single to not hit the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States . On 1 December 2006, the song entered the German single charts, on # 45 - Rihanna's been first charting outside the top 30. The fourth and final single from her second album was in the US and Canada, together with Sean Paul recorded The song Break It Off was released, which reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US . Of the four singles released ( SOS , Unfaithful , We Ride and Break It Off ), SOS and Unfaithful advanced to international hits; with SOS , Rihanna had her first number one hit.

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2006	SOS A Girl like Me	DE2 (20 weeks) DE	AT4 (28 weeks) AT	CH3 (33 weeks) CH	UK2 (13 weeks) UK	US1 (28 weeks) US	First published: February 14, 2006 Sales: +3,408,000
	Unfaithful A Girl like Me	DE2 (28 weeks) DE	AT2 (27 weeks) AT	CH1 (56 weeks) CH	UK2 (30 weeks) UK	US6 (20 weeks) US	First published: May 2, 2006 Sales: + 5,000,000
	We ride a girl like me	DE45 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH42 (8 weeks) CH	UK17 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 21, 2006 Sales: + 500,000
	Break It Off A Girl like Me	-	-	-	-	US9 (20 weeks) US	First published: November 13, 2006 Sales: + 500,000; feat. Sean Paul

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	70,000
Belgium (BEA)	gold	(15,000)
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	(200,000)
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	1,000,000
Ireland (IRMA)	2 × platinum	(30,000)
Japan (RIAJ)	gold	100,000
Canada (MC)	2 × platinum	200,000
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	(10,000)
Russia (NFPF)	platinum	(20,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	(30,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	(10,000)
United States (RIAA)	2 × platinum	2,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
All in all	4 × gold 13 × platinum	3,470,000

Main article: Rihanna / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

↑ Rihanna Heats Up the Summer With 'SOS' In: JET Magazine . May 2006, p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Billboard Magazine . April 29, 2006, p. 39 .
↑ Dani Fromm: Rihanna: A Girl like Me. Laut.de, accessed on February 21, 2010 .
↑ Barry Walters: Rihanna: A Girl like Me. (No longer available online.) Rolling Stone, May 26, 2006, archived from the original on November 3, 2007 ; accessed on February 21, 2010 (English).
↑ Mikael Wood: Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Spin . June 2006, p. 84 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
↑ Celia San Miguel: Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Vibe . June 2006, p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
↑ Michael Paoletta: Expanding Your Brand . In: Billboard Magazine . September 30, 2006, p. 36 .

[jet-1] Rihanna Heats Up the Summer With 'SOS' In: JET Magazine . May 2006, p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Billboard Magazine . April 29, 2006, p. 39 .

[3] Dani Fromm: Rihanna: A Girl like Me. Laut.de, accessed on February 21, 2010 .

[4] Barry Walters: Rihanna: A Girl like Me. (No longer available online.) Rolling Stone, May 26, 2006, archived from the original on November 3, 2007 ; accessed on February 21, 2010 (English).

[5] Mikael Wood: Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Spin . June 2006, p. 84 .

[charts-6] Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

[7] Celia San Miguel: Rihanna: A Girl like Me . In: Vibe . June 2006, p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[8] Michael Paoletta: Expanding Your Brand . In: Billboard Magazine . September 30, 2006, p. 36 .