Good Girl Gone Bad Kelefa Sanneh of "The New York Times" wrote that the album "sounds as if it were scientifically engineered to deliver hits". Peter Robinson of "The Observer" commended her collaborators for "masking her own shortcomings" and commented that, "While Rihanna lacks her peers' charisma, she's a great vessel for exhilarating mainstream pop." Pitchfork Media's Tom Breihan found the album varied and satisfying. Neil Drumming of "Entertainment Weekly" felt that, although it "goes bad when Rihanna tries her hand at treacly ballads and glum sentiment", at times "Good Girl Gone Bad" is a "thrilling throwback to more than a decade ago, when
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded the reissue would sell between 45,000 and 50,000 copies in its first week in the US. For the week ending June 22, 2008, it sold 63,000 copies and helped the original version of the album to jump from number 124 to number seven on the US "Billboard" 200 in its 55th week. It also peaked at number five on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. With this, "Good Girl Gone Bad" got back in the top 10 for the first time since its debut in June 2007. Additionally, five songs from the reissue were listed on the Hot Digital Songs, topped by