Music of the Sun

Music of the Sun (2005) is the debut studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on August 29, 2005, by Def Jam Recordings.

Music of the Sun is a Caribbean-influenced, "urban" dance-pop, dancehall and R&B album Its dance-pop songs are complemented by R&B ballads.
In the United States, Music of the Sun sold 69,000 copies in its first week and debuted and peaked at number ten on the Billboard 200 in the chart issue dated September 17, 2005. The album spent a total of thirty-five weeks on the chart. Music of the Sun debuted on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at number six in the same chart issue, and spent a total of forty-four weeks on the chart. After five months of release, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 1, 2006, denoting shipments of over 500,000 copies. By the time Rihanna released her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), the album had sold 539,000 copies, making it a slower-selling album than the others in her repertoire. As of June 2015, the album had sold 623,000 copies in the United States.