Rihanna's Super Bowl Performance The Reason For Her Biggest Streaming Week Ever

Following Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Show, the "Lift Me Up" singer notched perhaps the biggest streaming week of her music career to date.

Rihanna broke her six-year streak of not doing live performances with a massive Super Bowl performance last Feb. 12, 2023, at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

She performed a medley of her classic hits like "Rude Boy," "Umbrella," "B--h Better Have My Money," "Diamonds," "Where Have You Been," "Only Girl in the World," "Wild Thoughts," "Pour It Up," "All of the Lights," "Work," "Run This Town," and "Only Girl in the World."

Because of the weeks leading to that and the hype that came after, RiRi might just have landed her biggest streaming week ever in the United States.

Rihanna Streaming Stats Post-Super Bowl

According to Billboard's Data-Crunching Arm, Luminate, Rihanna amassed a total of 166.13 million on-demand streams in the United States following her Super Bowl Halftime Performance. Compared to the week before, that was an almost 156% increase from 65 million on-demand streams.

The publication reports that Rihanna's biggest streamed songs to date are her hit collaboration with Jay-Z, "Umbrella," which racked up 9.53 million streams alone. "Lift Me Up," her Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated song from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," comes in second with 8.68 million, while her smash hit "Diamonds" comes third with 8.44 million.

Rihanna's 6x Platinum record "Love on the Brain" amassed 8.11 million streams comes fourth on the list as the electro-house dance-pop anthem

"We Found Love" with Calvin Harris placed fifth with a total of 7.61 million streams.

Three of those - "Umbrella," "Diamonds," and "Love on The Brain" were all performed at Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance.

Rihanna Bounces Back On Billboard Hot 100, 200 Albums Charts

Following the huge numbers she has amassed in streaming, plenty of her songs vaulted back at the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

She has managed to chart back four of her most streamed songs to date - "Umbrella" at No. 37, "Lift Me Up" at No. 41, "Diamonds" at No. 44, and "We Found Love" at No. 48.

Concurrently, Rihanna also becomes the seventh act in the last 50 years of Billboard to rank five of her studio albums in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 charts simultaneously. (via Billboard)

"Anti" is now No. 8, "Good Girl Gone Bad" is at No. 15, "Unapologetic" is at No. 18, "Loud" rises to No. 26, and "Talk That Talk" returns at No. 49.

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