You can’t talk about game changers in the music industry without talking about Rihanna. The Caribbean Queen — also known as the “good girl gone bad,” RiRi or simply, Ri — has come a long way since her pre-Roc Nation days. In the two decades since her debut, Robyn Fenty went from an emerging artist from Barbados to one of the most prolific hitmakers of our time.

In 2005, Rihanna dropped her first single “Pon De Replay” off her debut album, Music of the Sun. At just 17, the singer was already experiencing her first major hit: the reggae-influenced club track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 27 weeks on the chart. But she quickly proved she was no one-hit wonder. The following year, her track “SOS” spent three weeks crowning the chart. Now, she has dozens of charting hits u

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