Good Girl Gone Bad

Good Girl Gone Bad
Studio album by Rihanna
Released June 5, 2007 (2007-06-05)
(see release history)
Recorded October 2006–April 2007
Westlake Recording Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre R&B, dance-pop
Length 46:00
Label Def Jam, Interscope
Producer The Carter Administration (exec.), Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers (also exec.), Hannon Lane, Ne-Yo, Neo Da Matrix, J. R. Rotem, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Stargate, Shea Taylor, Timbaland
Rihanna chronology
A Girl like Me
(2006)
Good Girl Gone Bad
(2007)
Rated R
(2009)
Alternate covers
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded cover
Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes cover
Singles from Good Girl Gone Bad
  1. "Umbrella"
    Released: March 29, 2007
  2. "Shut Up and Drive"
    Released: June 12, 2007
  3. "Don't Stop the Music"
    Released: August 2007
  4. "Hate That I Love You"
    Released: August 21, 2007
  5. "Take a Bow"
    Released: April 15, 2008
  6. "If I Never See Your Face Again"
    Released: May 2, 2008
  7. "Disturbia"
    Released: July 22, 2008
  8. "Rehab"
    Released: December 10, 2008

Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna, released May 30, 2007, on Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions for the album took place during October 2006 to April 2007 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Rihanna worked with producers Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Ne-Yo, StarGate, and Timbaland. Departing from the dancehall influence of her previous albums, Good Girl Gone Bad contains up-tempo and ballad-oriented songs, and it heavily incorporates pop and dance-pop musical styles.

The album debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 168,000 copies in its first week. It became a massive commercial success and spawned five singles that attained chart success. Upon its release, Good Girl Gone Bad received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Rihanna a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for the single "Umbrella". It was re-released as Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded in June 2008. The album achieved multi-platinum success in several countries, and is Rihanna's best selling album to date.

Contents

Conception

Following her second studio album, A Girl Like Me (2006), Rihanna started working with songwriters and producers early in 2007. Rihanna spent the week of the 2007 Grammy Awards with singer, songwriter and Def Jam label mate Ne-Yo for the follow-up album. He had co-written her ballad-driven "Unfaithful", and she had vocal lessons with him for the new album.[1] Despite having previously worked with him, she teamed up with him again and wrote the duet "Hate That I Love You". Rihanna commented: "I read through the lyrics, and I'm like, 'What are you thinking? What is going through your head?' " Rihanna recalled. "I just have to stop sometimes and be like, 'Ne-Yo, OK, tell me why you wrote this song.' Because I don't understand how he comes up with certain concepts and he just blows me away sometimes. He's just insane."[1] He also wrote two other songs on the album and the first single from the re-release, "Take a Bow".[2] The album's lead single, "Umbrella", was written by The-Dream. The song was originally written with American pop singer Britney Spears in mind, but her label rejected the song, and then offered it to American R&B singer Mary J. Blige, before it was given to Rihanna.[3]

Stewart stated that he was still reluctant as to whether Rihanna was the right artist to record the song, but following the recording of the "ella, ella" catch phrase, he felt they were onto "something".[3] The-Dream also helped with penning the songs "Breakin' Dishes", "Sell Me Candy," and "Lemme Get That" on the album. "Shut Up and Drive" was inspired by "Blue Monday", embracing a noticeable rock-oriented sound.[4] Rihanna also worked with Justin Timberlake on the album who wrote the eighth single, "Rehab". She added, "It's just an honour to work with Justin. He's a fun guy, a great artist and a very talented person."[5]

"They just put me in the studio and I started recording and recording, and it showed the direction of who I became as an artist.[...] We figured Good Girl Gone Bad was the perfect title because it showed people I'm my own [person] now. Not doing what anyone wants me to do. I'm not the innocent Rihanna anymore. I'm taking a lot more risks and chances. I felt when I cut my hair, it shows people I'm not trying to look or be anybody else. The album is very edgy. We have some urban records, some really pop records.[6]
—Rihanna, MTV News

Rihanna worked with some of the producers who has worked on her previous the albums including Evan and Carl, J.R. Rotem, record producer Sean Garrett and Norwegian production team Stargate.[1] Rihanna also collaborated with new music producers on the album such as Timbaland, will.i.am and Sean Garrett in the studio.[1] Rihanna also wanted to work with music producer Andre 3000 and Polow Da Don, who had previous works with the Pussycat Dolls, Fergie and Usher among others.[1] Most of the album tracks were recorded in a Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California and parallel to the recording sessions of her second studio album, A Girl Like Me. Rihanna began working on the album in late 2006 and was almost done recording in late February 2007.[1] During an interview on UK radio station Capital FM, Rihanna explained the meaning and reasoning behind the album title: "Bad is not sleazy. Bad has its own term to every individual and in my case it just means I've gotten a little rebellious on the album, broken out of my shell and I'm taking risks... Michael Jackson Bad kind of way".[7]

Music

Musical style

Rihanna herself stated that the album is greatly inspired by Brandy's 2004 album Afrodisiac: "That album I listen to all day, all night. When I was in the studio that was the album that I listened to all the time and I really admired that every song was a great song. You could listen to the entire album. And I was like, 'You know what? I have to make an album like this'".[8] The genre of the new album is a slightly new direction for the singer, favouring uptempo dance numbers. It followed her club-natured melodies and, like its predecessor, includes R&B and ballads. In an interview surrounding the album's theme, Rihanna claimed, "You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs].[...] I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time".[1] The album incorporates R&B, dance-pop and pop influences and being filled with up-tempo high-energy songs makes the album more pop oriented. The first half of the album is littered with well-known sample, although, despite the album being mostly uptempo, the second half of the album contains a slow and moody sound.[9] The album, featuring a dance-pop sound, did not include the reggae and dancehall that Music of the Sun (2005), and A Girl Like Me (2006) contained.[10] The reason for that being, was because of the direction and theme of the album. Rihanna explained:

"I basically took the attitude of the bad girl and I really got rebellious and just did everything the way I wanted to do it—I didn't want to listen to anybody. I didn't consult with anybody. I just want to have a little more fun with my music and be a little more experimental in terms of my image and my sound. I just reinvented myself.[...] A bad girl, it's all about the attitude that you take toward things, I'm not being careful, I'm just having fun. I'm taking risks because bad girls take risks."[5]

Some of the songs on the album incorporate 1970s and 1980s styles, which are inspired through sampling. The albums second single, "Shut Up and Drive" is sampled from the New Order's 1983 "Blue Monday". However, Allmusic referred to it as "a sleek, forthcoming proposition…as undeniable and rocking as Sugababes' 2002 UK smash 'Freak Like Me'."[11] "Don't Stop the Music," being a fast dance groove song, is combined with a sample of "Soul Makossa" and part of the chorus from "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." "Push Up on Me," on the other hand, features a sample from the Lionel Richie 1983 song "Running with the Night".

Content

"Umbrella", whose single features rapper Jay-Z, is the album's opening and lead single. The song combines synthesizers with the based on the hi-hat, synthesizers, and a distorted bassline.[12] Andy Kellman of Allmusic described the song as a mammoth if spacious drums, a towering backdrop during the chorus, and vocals that are somehow totally convincing without sounding all that impassioned.[4] However, Entertainment Weekly commented that the song's beat can be recreated through a slowed-down drum loop from the Apple music-software program GarageBand.[13] The album was also the first album where Rihanna showcased her rock and roll side as evident in the electric guitar flavored "Shut Up and Drive." The song is part of an all-upbeat opening sequence[4] with a heavy guitar riff containing a pop rock sound.[14] "Hate That I Love You" and "Take a Bow" both carry a moderate groove sound, with an R&B influences that uses of a gently strummed acoustic guitar.[15] "Don't Stop the Music" and "Disturbia," are up-tempo dance grooves with "Don't Stop the Music" incorporating electropop and house music while "Disturbia" using a dark sound with the vocal effect of Auto-Tune, being used throughout the song on Rihanna's vocals.[16][17]

Good Girl Gone Bad focuses primarily on being rebellious and gaining a bad girl attitude. "Shut Up and Drive" is all about Rihanna wanting someone to drive her around in her new car, she wants someone to take control now, but can they handle it.[14] "Hate That I Love You" talks about being in love with the ex-boyfriend and not being able to move on. In an interview, Rihanna said "That song ['Hate That I Love You'], when it first starts off, you think it's a sexy song, but you have to listen to the lyrics. It's a really deep song."[6] "Take a Bow" portrays an apology from a boyfriend after he's nabbed cheating.[18] "Rehab" portrays a message about being in love with a guy so much, she has to check in to a rehab clinic to get out of it.

Releases and promotion

Good Girl Gone Bad was released through Def Jam Recordings on May 30, 2007.[19] Rihanna re-released the album with a double-disc deluxe edition package titled Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded in June 2008. In the U.S., the set includes the standard edition's 12 tracks, with three all new tracks—the lead U.S. number-one single "Take a Bow", a remix of "If I Never See Your Face Again" with Maroon 5, and the U.S. number-one single "Disturbia." A documented performance at Manchester Evening News Arena on December 6, 2007, was released as a DVD on June 17, 2008,[20] containing behind the scenes footage and four live performances from her tours, and was housed in a digipak. The deluxe edition of Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded has gone out of print within months of its release and has been replaced with the exact same CD disc as the deluxe edition, however, it is packaged in a standard CD case as opposed to the original release's digipak, and it does not include the bonus DVD.

In the United States, the album's artwork features a green toned background instead of the original's grey toned background. In the United Kingdom, the background is a white-gray toned background instead of the green. The revamped version of the album was released in most countries on June 17,[21][22][23] but the album version was released on June 2, 2008, in the UK (with the DVD version following on June 16) and on June 21 in Australia.[24] The album was released as a remix collection on January 27, 2009[25] and on February 2, 2009, in the UK.[26] The songs are radio edits.[27] This release is different to the bonus disc found on the original album's deluxe edition in that it excludes the remixes of "SOS" and of the bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted". In turn, this release adds in remixes of "Disturbia" and "Take A Bow" from the Reloaded edition but excludes the remix of "If I Never See Your Face Again" featuring Maroon 5 (a remix of this can be found on Call and Response: The Remix Album). A remix version of "Umbrella" has been added, and the remix of "Don't Stop The Music" has also been changed. On January 26, 2009, Universal Music Group added the album to their list of "First Plays", a online version of the album.

In May 2007, Rihanna co-hosted MTV’s Total Request Live to promote the album. She then performed live at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2007.[28] She also performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in September 2007 and on The David Letterman Show in October 2007.[29] The second single of the album, "Shut Up and Drive", was used as a promotional for Cycle 9 of The CW's television series America's Next Top Model.

Singles

Official singles

Promo singles

Tour

Rihanna embarked on a worldwide concert tour, The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour, on September 15, 2007, three months after the release of the album. It consisted of 79 shows and ended on February 13, 2009. The first leg began in Canada, consisting of eleven shows across the country with Akon, and it later passed (without Akon) through United States, Europe, Oceania, Africa and Asia. Supporting acts for the tour were Akon, Ciara and David Jordan.[44]

Reception

Commercial performance

In the United States, Good Girl Gone Bad debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, being headed by T-Pain's Epiphany, selling 168,000 units in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.[45][46] The following week, the album dropped to number seven selling 81,000 copies.[47] The album was re-released on June 2, 2008, making the album soar from Number 124 to 7 on the Billboard 200, selling 63,000 copies and having a 930% sales increase.[48] In 2008, the album received a two-times platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), adding the sales from the original Good Girl Gone Bad album with the deluxe edition.[49] The album spent 98 weeks in the Billboard 200 selling 2,616,000 copies becoming her best-selling album in the country so far.[50]

In the United Kingdom, Good Girl Gone Bad became Rihanna's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart and on the UK R&B Chart, debuting with 53,000 copies sold in its first week; it spent one week at number one, before being replaced with The Traveling Wilburys Collection by Traveling Wilburys. By the end of 2007, it had sold 560,000 copies, making it the tenth-biggest-selling album of the year. After the re-release, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, the album soared from number fifty-nine to number twelve, having the "greatest gainer" certification, before rising to number five later in its chart run. By September 14, 2008, the album was still charting strongly in the UK, dipping in and out of the top 10 for many weeks. Its Reloaded re-release reached a peak of number three on the UK Albums Chart. Two weeks after reaching a new peak of number three on the UK Albums Chart, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded moved up another place to reach a new peak of number two, only being kept off the top spot by Kings of Leon's Only By The Night. The album was the eighth-best-selling album of 2008 in the UK. The album has since gone five times platinum and has sold over 1,500,000 to date (up to the week ending August 28, 2009, including the Reloaded Edition). By December 3, 2009, nearly two and a half years following the album's release, Good Girl Gone Bad had risen to Number 21 on the UK Albums Chart and spent 134 weeks in the chart.[51] In Canada, the album also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and sold 232,000 copies during 2007, becoming the sixth best-selling album of the year. It has currently been certified triple-platinum, with a total sales of 300,000 in the country alone.[52] In Europe, the album was awarded a three-times platinum certification by the IFPI for sales of three million, becoming one of the best-selling albums in that continent for 2007.[53][54] In France, the album debuted at number eight and after the re-release, the album soared from 141 to 43 having the greatest gainer of the week.[55]

In Germany, the album debuted at number four and reached this position two times again, making it her highest charting album in that country (Rated R could reach #4 just once). Due to the success of the singles and the re-release, the album stayed on the German Albums Chart for 101 weeks, making it the longest-staying album on this Chart of her career. In the week of the re-release, the album soared from 88 to 20, jumping 68 positions . In total, it's her most successful album in Germany, selling 400,000 copies, reaching 2x platinum. The album is her best selling album having sold 10 million copies as of August 2010[56]

Critical response

 Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[57]
Blender 3.5/5 stars[58]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[59]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[60]
The New York Times (favorable)[61]
Pitchfork Media (7.4/10)[62]
PopMatters (7/10)[63]
Slant Magazine 3/5 stars[64]
USA Today 3/4 stars[65]
The Village Voice (mixed)[66]

Upon its release, Good Girl Gone Bad received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 72/100 from Metacritic.[67] Andy Kellman of Allmusic said that "From beginning to end, Good Girl Gone Bad is as pop as pop gets in 2007, each one of its 12 songs a potential hit in some territory"[68][69] while The New York Times' Kelefa Sanneh stated that "This CD sounds as if it were scientifically engineered to deliver hits.[...] Good Girl Gone Bad should secure her place on pop music’s A-list".[70] Pitchfork Media described the album as "An unexpectedly varied and satisfying listen".[71] Talia Kraines from BBC News stated that the sizzling "Umbrella" might be the biggest hit Rihanna's ever had, but there's plenty on this album that could do even better.[72]

Neil Drumming of Entertainment Weekly gave Good Girl Gone Bad a B+, commenting; "follow-up to last year's A Girl Like Me is a meld of many genres — including '80s pop and rock — at its finest, messiest moments, Good Girl Gone Bad is a thrilling throwback to more than a decade ago, when upstart producers haphazardly mashed R&B with hip-hop to create chunky jeep anthems such as Mary J. Blige's "Real Love".[...] Good Girl only goes bad when Rihanna tries her hand at treacly ballads and glum sentiment. Surprisingly guilty are her high-profile songwriters."[73] The album's lead single, "Umbrella" also ranked number three on "The 10 Best Songs of 2007" by Time magazine. Explained writer Josh Tyrangiel: "Rihanna has a special talent for vocal innuendo. She toys with the word umbrella — or, as Rihanna would put it, um-ba-rella, ella, ella — as if she's taking it for a ride on a water bed. The sexiest song of 2007."[74][75]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z) Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash, Thaddis Harrell, Shawn Carter Christopher Stewart 4:35
2. "Push Up on Me"   Jonathan Rotem, Makeba Riddick, Lionel Richie, Cynthia Weil J. R. Rotem 3:15
3. "Don't Stop the Music"   Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tawanna Dabney, Michael Jackson StarGate 4:27
4. "Breakin' Dishes"   Stewart, Nash Christopher Stewart 3:20
5. "Shut Up and Drive"   Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken 3:33
6. "Hate That I Love You" (featuring Ne-Yo) Shaffer Smith, Hermansen, Eriksen StarGate 3:39
7. "Say It"   Riddick, Quaadir Atkinson, Ewart Brown, Clifton Dillon, Lowell Dunbar, Brian Thompson Neo Da Matrix 4:10
8. "Sell Me Candy"   Nash, Riddick, Timothy Mosley Timbaland 2:45
9. "Lemme Get That"   Nash, Mosley, Carter Timbaland 3:41
10. "Rehab"   Justin Timberlake, Mosley, Hannon Lane Timbaland 4:54
11. "Question Existing"   Smith, Shea Taylor, Carter Shea Taylor 4:06
12. "Good Girl Gone Bad"   Smith, Hermansen, Eriksen, Lene Marlin StarGate 3:33

Reloaded

The album was re-released as a double-disc deluxe edition, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, on June 2, 2008, a year after the release of the original version. Aside from the original tracks, the new edition features three new songs: the first single from the re-release, "Take a Bow"; "If I Never See Your Face Again" (a duet with Maroon 5); and "Disturbia". In an official press release by Def Jam, it was announced that a song titled "Hatin' On The Club", which was written by The-Dream and produced by Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, was also supposed to be included.[76][77] Eventually, however, for reasons unknown, it was removed from the final track listing.

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
13. "Disturbia"   Robert Allen, Andre Merritt, Chris Brown, Brian Kennedy Brian Kennedy 3:59
14. "Take a Bow"   Hermansen, Eriksen, Smith StarGate 3:49
15. "If I Never See Your Face Again" (with Maroon 5) Adam Levine, James Valentine Maroon 5, Mike Elizondo, Mark Endert, Mark Stent 3:18

The Remixes

Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes contains remixed versions of songs from the original album, and was released in the United States on January 27, 2009,[78] and on February 2, 2009, in the UK.[79] The versions featured are all edits of the original full-length club mixes.[80] This release is different than the bonus disc found in the original album's deluxe edition in that it excludes the remix of "SOS" and the bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted". Alternately, the release includes remixes of "Disturbia" and "Take A Bow" from Reloaded, but excludes the remix of "If I Never See Your Face Again", featuring Maroon 5 (a remix of this can be found on Call and Response: The Remix Album). Another "Umbrella" remix has been added, and the remix of "Don't Stop The Music" has been replaced. Remixes of "Rehab", "Sell Me Candy" and "Lemme Get That" were not included. On January 26, 2009, a day before the CD release, Universal Music Group added the disc to their list of "First Plays", a online version of the CD. This could be heard here. The album charted at number 106 on the Billboard 200. It also debuted, and peaked at number four on the US Dance/Electronic Albums.[81]

Personnel

  • Rihanna – vocals
  • Chris "Tricky" Stewart & Hannon B. Lane – keyboard
  • Mikkel Eriksen & Tor Erik Hermansen (aka Stargate); keyboard, drums
  • Bernt Rune Stray – guitar
  • Richard Fortus – guitar
  • Espen Lind – guitar
  • Chris "Tricky" Stewart – drums
  • Doug Michels – trumpet
  • Stevie Blacke – violin, cello
  • Ed Calle – orchestration
  • Dana Teboe & John Kricker – trombone
  • Executive Producers: The Carter Administration
  • Management: Marc Jordan and Christa Shaub
  • Mastered by Chris Gehringer
  • A&R: Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith
  • A&R Administration: Jay Brown
  • A&R Coordination: Terese Joseph
  • Vocal Producers: Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Ne-Yo, Stargate, Justin Timberlake, Makeba Riddick
  • Art Direction and Design: J. Peter Robinson
  • Photography: Roberto Deste
  • Styling: GK Reid
  • Marketing: Angela Allen
  • Featuring vocals: Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland
  • Tour Director and Choreographer: Tina Landon[82]

Chart history

Chart positions and certifications

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Certification
(thresholds)
Sales/shipments
Australian Albums Chart[83] 2 3× Platinum[84] 210,000
Austrian Albums Chart[85] 3 Platinum[86] 20,000
Belgian Albums Chart[87] 9 2×Platinum 60,000+
Brazilian Albums Chart 2x Platinum[88] 120,000
Canadian Albums Chart[89] 2 3× Platinum[90] 300,000
Czech Republic Albums Chart[91] 3
Danish Albums Chart[92] 2 Platinum[93] 30,000
Dutch Albums Chart[94] 20
Finnish Albums Chart 7 Gold[95] 15,000
French Albums Chart[96] 8 Platinum 232,640
German Albums Chart[97] 4 2× Platinum[98] 400,000
Greek Albums Chart 2 Gold[86] 15,000
Greek International Albums Chart 1 Gold[99] 7,500
Hungarian Albums Chart 1 Platinum[100] 15,000
Irish Albums Chart[101] 1 3× Platinum[102] 45,000
Italian Albums Chart[103] 21 Gold[104] 50,000
Japanese Albums Chart[105] 7 Gold[106] 175,000[107]
Mexican Albums Chart[108][109] 16 Gold[108] 50,000
New Zealand Albums Chart[110] 4 Platinum[111] 15,000
Norwegian Albums Chart 3
Polish Albums Chart 3 Platinum[112] 20,000
Portuguese Albums Chart[113] 24 Gold[114] 10,000
Russian Albums Chart[115] 1 5× Platinum 100,000
Spanish Albums Chart 9 2x Platinum[116] 160,000
Swiss Albums Chart 1 2x Platinum[117] 40,000
Taiwanese Albums Chart 1
UK Albums Chart[118] 1 5× Platinum[119] 1,566,000
UK R&B Albums Chart
U.S. Billboard 200[120] 2 2× Platinum[46] 2,592,000[121]
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums 3

Year-end charts

Country Position (2007)
Germany 19[122]
Country Position (2008)
Germany 24[123]

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
Irish Albums Chart number-one album
January 25, 2008 (one week)
Succeeded by
Skybound by Tom Baxter
Preceded by
Lost Highway by Bon Jovi
Swiss Albums Chart number-one album
July 29, 2007 (one week)
Succeeded by
Planet Earth by Prince
Preceded by
It Won't Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5
UK Albums Chart number-one album
June 10, 2007 – June 16, 2007 (two weeks)
Succeeded by
The Traveling Wilburys Collection by Traveling Wilburys
Preceded by
I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé
UK R&B Chart number-one album
January 25, 2009 (one week)
Succeeded by
I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé

Release history

Standard edition
Country Date
Japan May 30, 2007
Germany June 1, 2007
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
France June 4, 2007
Portugal
United Kingdom
Canada June 5, 2007
United States
Spain June 7, 2007
Australia June 27, 2007
China June 28, 2007
Philippines
Brazil July 18, 2007
Middle East July 21, 2007
The Remixes
Country Date
United States[124] January 27, 2009
Australia[125] January 31, 2009
Germany[126] February 6, 2009
United Kingdom February 9, 2009
Brazil[127] March 13, 2009
Reloaded edition
Country Date
United Kingdom June 2, 2008 (CD Only)
June 16, 2008 (CD/Bonus DVD)
Germany June 12, 2008
Switzerland
Europe June 13, 2008
United States June 17, 2008
Australia June 20, 2008
Singapore June 20, 2008
Japan June 25, 2008
Philippines
Brazil June 30, 2008
Middle East July 5, 2008
Reloaded Deluxe edition
Country Date
Italy[128] November 12, 2008
Philippines November 17, 2008
United Kingdom[129]

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