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: The Remixes a reworked version of the bonus disc from the European deluxe edition of "Good Girl Gone Bad". However, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" excludes the remixes of the "A Girl like Me" single "SOS" and the "Good Girl Gone Bad" bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted", in favor of remixes of the new "Reloaded" tracks "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow". Additionally, a Lindberg Palace remix of "Umbrella" was added. While the original album's bonus disc includes the full-length remixes, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" includes only radio edits, which cut the original versions by three to four minutes. Critical