Rihanna Breaks Chart Record Previously Held by Katy Perry

'Anti' just bested 'Teenage Dream.'

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Rihanna's excellent 2016 album Anti has taken a chart record from Katy Perry's quite good Teenage Dream.

Rihanna's album now boasts the most No. 1 singles in Dance Club Songs in chart history, according to a Chart Data report spotted byFader Friday.

Rihanna's 'ANTI' surpasses Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream' as the album with the most #1 singles in Dance Club Songs chart history (8).

— chart data (@chartdata) February 16, 2018

Billboard Dance Club Songs: #1(+1) Consideration, @rihanna Feat. @sza [9 weeks]. *new peak*

— chart data (@chartdata) February 16, 2018

Anti, which hasn't yet received a follow-up, dropped way back in January 2016. In addition to the instaclassic opening collab with SZA, the album also features the best Tame Impala cover ever recorded. Naturally, Grammy nominations happened.

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Earlier this month, reports came in that Rihanna had helped raised more than $2 billion for global education efforts. She attended a Global Partnership for Education (GPE) fundraising conference in Senegal, where she delivered a speech to a crowd that included World Bank president Jim Yong Kim.

Today’s @GPforEducation Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal raised over $2.3B for global education!📓✏️🌎 @rihanna @GlblCtzn #FundEducation #CLF pic.twitter.com/FjBMvGHdPJ

— Clara Lionel Fdn (@ClaraLionelFdn) February 2, 2018

We've made tremendous progress today, but of course, our work is never done," Rihanna, a GPE ambassador, said. "We have a long way to go and this is a fight that we're never going to stop fighting until every boy and every girl has access to education."

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