The Recording Industry of America announced the integration of streams to its Gold & Platinum Program, pushing Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” into Diamond status. On-demand audio and/or video song streams will now be counted towards the Gold, Platinum, and multi-Platinum levels required for the Digital Single Award certification.
It feels like every 6 months, Barbadian popstar and marijuana field-dweller Rihannais announcing a new album and the groans and half-hearted cheers are heard throughout the nation. “Unapologetic” is Rihanna’s 7th studio album, an impressive feat for an artist so young or it would be if only half of said albums were actually good.
After one listen of the latest album however, we can firmly put “Unapologetic” in the Pretty Damn Good category. It kicks off with “Fresh Off the Runway,” a sassy number that pulls the best of Rihanna with superb production, which her albums are usually good for. What they’re not good for is the assertion of Rihanna’s personality, which she failed to produce on her last two albums, “Loud” and “Talk That Talk.”
