When it comes to singles, Rihanna was already the undisputed Queen of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The best-selling singles artist in digital music history (among women), Rih – despite not releasing an album since 2016’s ‘Anti‘ – towered over the competition thanks in great part to owning more Diamond-certified singles than any other female act since the RIAA began certifying sales in 1952.

If that positioning wasn’t already enough to trumpet, the Pop titaness recently extended that reign into unprecedented territory.

Hop inside to find out how.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Rihanna’s 2006 sophomore album ‘A Girl Like Me‘ (April 10), the RIAA took to press to announce the LP’s second single and hit ballad – ‘Unfaithful‘ – had soared to 4x Platinum status in the United States.

For context, “Platinum” refers to sales equivalence of 1 million units in the country.

That update, alongside the report her first album’s hit single ‘If It’s Lovin That You Want’ finally crossed the 1x Platinum threshold over two decades after its release, was just what Rih needed to push her cumulative single sales in America over the 200-million sold benchmark.

Now sitting at a total of 200.5 million, the 38-year-old becomes the first Black vocalist and female performer overall in the RIAA’s 73-year history to have sold over 200 million singles in the U.S.

Among all artists, however, she is ranked third behind Drake (277.5 million) and Morgan Wallen (215 million).

Note: It’s worth calling out that the RIAA only credits certifications to lead acts, so any certified song where artists mentioned in this article is listed as a feature is not officially added to their career counts.

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