Good Girl Gone Bad Live and will.i.am. Most of the album tracks were recorded in Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, parallel to the recording sessions of her second studio album, "A Girl like Me". Rihanna began working on the album in late 2006 and was almost finished recording in late February 2007. On June 4, 2007 she released the album under the name "Good Girl Gone Bad". During an interview with MTV News, Rihanna explained the meaning and reasoning behind the album's title: Upon its release, "Good Girl Gone Bad" received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Rihanna a Grammy
Good Girl Gone Bad Albums Chart with sales of 54,000 copies in its first week. It became her first album to top the chart, and stayed on the chart for 177 weeks. In 2011, the album peaked at number 16 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. It was certified sextuple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and sold over 1,904,347 copies in the country. It ended at number 10 on the UK 2007 year-end list and number six on the 2008 year-end list. As of March 2015, "Good Girl Gone Bad" is the 46th best-selling album of the millennium in the United Kingdom.