Good Girl Gone Bad time of release, many critics felt that Rihanna's style, sound, and musical material were too similar to those of American singer Beyoncé. The album sold over 587,308 copies in the United Kingdom and more than 1,330,000 copies in the United States. In early 2007, Rihanna began work on her third studio album. In an interview with MTV News, she announced that "the new music is going in a different direction. Not on purpose, but I just want to hear something fresh and mostly uptempo. I think that's where I want to go on this one. You feel different every album,
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded in its third week, the album reached a peak of number four. After the release of "Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded", "Good Girl Gone Bad" re-entered the Swiss Albums Chart at number 32, and the Austrian Albums Chart at number 36. When "Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded" was released, the original album received a sales increase of 930%—more than any other non-debuting album in the history of the "Billboard" 200 chart. By July 2010, it had become the third album in the US whose songs have sold the most copies combined. Its songs have sold over 17,081,000 digital copies, only