Good Girl Gone Bad Songwriting Credits by Rihanna

Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by Rihanna, released in May 2007 on Def Jam Records and produced primarily by Timbaland, Stargate, and Sean Garrett, the album that transformed Rihanna from a successful pop-R&B artist into one of the most commercially dominant and artistically adventurous voices in mainstream music, built around the lead single 'Umbrella,' one of the most commercially successful and culturally ubiquitous pop songs of the decade. Rihanna co-wrote several tracks; 'Umbrella' (written by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart) spent 10 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and 16 weeks at number one in the UK, a chart performance that was the reference point for commercial pop dominance for several years, and defined the image shift implied by the album title from Caribbean girl-next-door to self-possessed adult pop figure. Good Girl Gone Bad was conceived in collaboration with Jay-Z and the Def Jam team as a deliberate career escalation, with Timbaland's production framework providing a harder, more cutting-edge sonic environment than the Rogers-Sturken formula that had launched her. The album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album and 'Umbrella' won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (featuring Jay-Z); it has been certified four-times platinum in the United States and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Good Girl Gone Bad is the foundation of Rihanna's commercial identity and the album that established her as a creative collaborator rather than a performer of outside material.