Rihanna has shown that putting in the work to create a great album will pay off.

“Anti,” Rihanna’s eighth studio album, has spent 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 as of the week of Dec. 1, 2025, according to chart data .

“God ain’t forget bout me!," Rihanna wrote in an X post reacting to the news.

With that, “Anti” becomes the first album by a Black female artist to achieve this milestone on the chart. Other leading albums by fellow Black female artists include “Ctrl” by SZA at 441 weeks, “Over It” by Summer Walker at 317 weeks, Whitney Houston’s greatest hits album at 255 weeks and "Invasion Of Privacy" by Cardi B at 222 weeks.

Released on Jan. 28, 2016, “Anti” debuted at No. 27 before peaking a No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart the week of Feb. 20, 2016, according to Billboard’s ch

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