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 Live late 2009, the same Blu-ray was also released in the United States and Germany. "Good Girl Gone Bad Live" was directed by Paul Caslin and captured with a 14-camera High Definition shoot. The Blu-ray edition of the video album is presented in an aspect ratio of , encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and grants a 1080i transfer. "Good Girl Gone Bad Live" contains two audio tracks DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0. According to a reviewer of Blu-ray.com the LPCM 2.0 is very strong, but it is not as convincing as the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. He stated that