A Girl Like Me Songwriting Credits by Rihanna

A Girl Like Me is the second studio album by Rihanna, released in April 2006 on Def Jam/SRP Records and produced primarily by Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken with additional production from StarGate and Scott Storch, a rapid follow-up to the debut, released while 'Pon de Replay' was still charting, that expanded Rihanna's pop R&B range while maintaining the Caribbean production elements of Music of the Sun. Rihanna wrote no original material; the songs were provided by professional writers, with the album's sound reflecting both the continued dancehall and soca influences of the debut and an increasing integration into mainstream American R&B production. 'SOS', built on a sample of Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' and produced by StarGate, became Rihanna's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending three weeks at the top position and establishing her as a commercially consistent artist capable of breaking through the clutter of 2006 radio. 'Unfaithful' was the follow-up single and also reached the top five; A Girl Like Me reached number five on the Billboard 200 and has been certified double platinum in the United States. The album cemented the producer-artist partnership and commercial format that would drive the next phase of Rihanna's career and laid the groundwork for the more stylistically adventurous work of Good Girl Gone Bad.