I can see this being dropped this Christmas.
What should the tracklisting be if you were to choose only 14 tracks, with track 15 being a completely new single?

Mine:
1. Pon de replay
2.S.O.S.
3.Umbrella
4.Don't stop the music
5.Disturbia
6.Rude boy
7.Only girl in the world
8.What's my name
9.We found love
10.Where have you been
11.Diamonds
12.Stay
13.Work
14.This is what you came for
15.New track

1) Pon de Replay
2) Don't Stop the Music
3) Umbrella
4) Take A Bow
5) Disturbia
6) Rude Boy
7) Only Girl
8) What's My Name
9) We Found Love
10) Where Have you Been
11) Diamonds
12) Stay
13) Work
14) Love On The Brain (hoping it smashes this autumn as ANTI's next single)
15) New track

I don't think she'll release a greatest hits though tbh.

Way too many songs to cram into 14 tracks! 20 tracks including a new song seems more suitable.

I hope we get a GH from her though.

Rihanna - Greatest Hits

CD 1 - The Party

1. ** new song ** <--- released as a single to help sell the album, mid tempo RnB/pop song
2. Pon De Replay
3. S.O.S.
4. Umbrella
5. Shut Up And Drive
6. Don't Stop The Music
7. Disturbia
8. Live Your Life
8. Rude Boy
9. Only Girl (In The World)
10. What's My Name?
11. Who's That Chick?
12. S&M
13. We Found Love
14. Take Care
15. Where Have You Been?
16. The Monster
17. Work
18. Needed Me
19. This Is What You Came For
20. ** new song ** <--- anthemic club banger to close CD 1

CD 2 - The Afterparty

1. Unfaithful
2. Hate That I Love You
3. Take A Bow
4. Rehab
5. Run This Town
6. Russian Roulette
7. Te Amo
8. Love The Way You Lie (Piano Version)
9. California King Bed
10. Man Down
11. Cheers (Drink To That)
12. Princess Of China
13. You Da One
14. Diamonds
15. Stay
16. FourFiveSeconds
17. Bitch Better Have My Money
18. American Oxygen
19. Kiss It Better

So basically each disc would have a theme. CD 1 being all the club bangers and R'n'B cuts whilst CD 2 would be all the more relaxed R'n'B and ballads.

Here's my idea for one

Rihanna: The Bajan Anthology

Disc 1
Pon De Replay
If Its Loving That You Want
SOS
Unfaithful
We Ride
Umbrella
Shut Up and Drive
Hate That I Love You
Take A Bow
Disturbia
Rehab
Russian Roulette
Hard
Rude Boy

Disc 2
Only Girl In The World
What's My Name
S&M
California King Bed
Man Down
Cheers
We Found Love
You Da One
Where Have You Been
Diamonds
Stay
FourFiveSeconds
Bitch Better Have My Money
Work
NEW SONG
NEW SONG
NEW SONG

Disc 3

If I Never See Your Face
Live Your Life
Run This Town
Love The Way You Lie
Who's That Chick
All Of The Lights
Take Care
The Monster
Can't Remember To Forget You
This Is What You Came For
Too Good

Disc 4
A dvd of all her music videos

I would have different editions.

A one disc edition with a mixture of disc 1 and 2. A two disc edition. A three disc edition with her collabs. And then a four disc edition with the dvd.

I like what you did with the Disc 3 thing.

It is hard but I think the standard edition would feature about only 15 tracks.
Maybe Love the way you lie would deserve to be on there, I would exchange that with Where have you been- that although i Love it- is not as classic as LTWYL

As long as Love On The Brain isn't on it... Such a Lana Del Rey cast-off! and I don't think it suits Rihanna so much (she DOES do a good vocal on it, fair enough...). A single disc GH could be...

1. Umbrella
2. Only Girl (In The World)
3. Diamonds
4. Work
5. We Found Love
6. Talk That Talk
7. Unfaithful
8. Don't Stop The Music
9. What's My Name?
10. Stay
11. Pon De Replay
12. Where Have You Been
13. Take A Bow
14. Rude Boy
15. S&M
16. Russian Roulette
17. Bitch Better Have My Money

I think Love On the Brain is one of the best songs of her career. She absolutely smashes the vocals live and clearly adores the song. She sounds better live than on the studio version of that song.

I think she'll release another full album next year tbh.

I don't reckon she'll release one. They don't sell well anymore in the digital era so it's a bit of a risk.

Even though I'm not a big fan, if there's one artist in today's age that could legitimately pull of a Greatest Hits album, it's Rihanna. She has enough songs to cover it. It's embarrassing when artists squeeze out a GH album having been around for all of 5 minutes and half the tracks are recognisable and the other half are like "When the hell was this crap released!?"

She has so many great songs any Greatest Hits album should be a double CD at least otherwise I wouldn't find it worthwhile.

In 15 songs with but one new it's tough but I'll try:

1. Umbrella
2. We Found Love
3.Diamonds
4.Disturbia
5.SOS
6. Pon De Replay
7. Rude Boy
8. S&M
9. Take A Bow
10. Stay
11. Unfaitful
12. Only Girl (In The World)
13. Work
14. Don't Stop The Music
15. Fourfiveseconds
16. New

If she were to do it right a 2 disc standard and a 3 disk deluxe with disc 3 being her features.

Can't see her releasing one this year as it would have probably been announced by now.

It would be cool if she released a compilation of all her singles and collaborations plus a couple of new songs and DVD of her videos, but if she did release a GH/singles collection I could see it being mainly the big hits (her own and collabs) and more pop than urban songs plus a couple of new songs. I imagine something like this (in no particular order):

1. Umbrella
2. We Found Love
3. Pon de Replay
4. Stay
5. Work
6. Only Girl (In The World)
7. Rude Boy
8. S&M
9. Take A Bow
10. Disturbia
11. Fourfiveseconds
12. Diamonds
13. This Is What You Came For
14. Shut Up And Drive
15. Rehab
16. What's My Name
17. New
18. New

It's usually never up to the artist. It's a good earner for record labels and they just do it.

She should call it HistoRIH

I never understand the point of Greatest Hits albums. They're just a cheap money maker for record labels and usually artists don't actually want to do them, it's the label that pushes them. All of the songs are already out there, so what's the point of putting them together on one album? If people want to listen to the songs then they can as they're all already available.

Now with Deluxe cd2

I can see this being dropped this Christmas.
What should the tracklisting be if you were to choose only 14 tracks, with track 15 being a completely new single?

Mine:
1. Pon de replay
2.S.O.S.
3.Umbrella
4.Don't stop the music
5.Disturbia
6.Rude boy
7.Only girl in the world
8.What's my name
9.We found love
10.Where have you been
11.Diamonds
12.Stay
13.Work
14.This is what you came for
15.New track

1.New track
2.If it's lovin' that you want
3.Shut up and drive
4.Hate that I love you
5.Take a bow
6.If I never see your face again
7.S & M
8.Talk that talk
9.Right here
10.Bitch better have my money
11.American oxygen
12.Umbrella-Seamus Haji & Paul Emanual remix
13.Who's that chick

Disc 1:

1. Pon De Replay
2. If It's Lovin' That You Want
3. SOS
4. Unfaithful
5. Break It Off
6. Umbrella
7. Shut Up And Drive
8. Hate That I Love You
9. Don't Stop the Music
10. Take A Bow
11. Disturbia
12. If I Never See Your Face Again
12. Live Your Life
13. Rehab
14. Run This Town
15. Russian Roulette
16. Rude Boy
17. Te Amo
18. Love The Way You Lie
19. New Track

Disc 2:

1. Only Girl (In The World)
2. What's My Name
3. S&M
4. Who's That Chick?
5. California King Bed
6. Man Down
7. Take Care
8. We Found Love
9. Where Have You Been
10. Diamonds
11. Stay
12. Pour It Up
13. Can't Remember To Forget You
14. FourFiveSeconds
15. Bitch Better Have My Money
16. Work
17. Needed Me
18. This Is What You Came For
19. New Track

Very Good!

I bet Adele's Greatest Hits would sell like hotcakes if released for Christmas,

1 We Found Love
2 Umbrella
3 Diamonds
4 Only Girl (In The World)
5 Work
6 Stay
7 Rude Boy
8 What's My Name
9 Four, Five Seconds
10 Don't Stop The Music
11 S&M
12 Love The Way You Lie (ft. Eminem)
13 Where Have You Been?
14 Pon De Replay
15 New Song

Following the rules of this thread, of course. All of those above seem the most appealing to a casual listener. For a more comprehensive collection, I think a two-disc set would be appropriate and I'd include a lot more features. The glaring omissions from the above, for me, would be Man Down and Cheers (Drink To That) but they weren't massive hits and unlikely to be included on a greatest hits collection.

I left Man down and Russian roulette out because they were minor hits and RR is not essential on a greatest hits (though rated well) Rated r
Forgot Four Five seconds but then again, the usual Greatest Hits always has 1 omission no one understands or crap edited versions.
I remember Garbage's greatest hits still leaving out Androgyny

Not so much greatest hits but all the hits:

Rihanna is set to release a vinyl box set of her entire discography of albums as well as a booklet containing every photo from every album shoot.

https://www.twitter.com/RihannaDiva/...961345/photo/1

I really want this but probably can't justify the cost .

if you're a massive fan who buys all the artists albums then yeh they are pretty pointless. But if you are a casual fan who likes a lot of their hits but wouldn't necessary shell out and buy their albums, then you would perhaps buy their greatest hits, Like last Christmas, I asked for Anastacia - Ultimate Collection because I like her and most of her hits but not a big enough fan to buy every album she releases if that makes sense. i'd be the same with Rihanna, I think I own one of her albums but if she brought out a Greatest Hits album, i'd definitely get it and like people on here have shown, she definitely has more than enough to warrant releasing a Greatest Hits album. Also, for artists like Madonna whos been around for over 30 years and Cher whos been around for 50 years, not even their avid fans are gunna own every single album of theirs. if you think, Cher's career started in the 1960s when all her albums were released on big massive vinyl records that most people wont be able to play anymore. So, a new greatest hits from her would be suitable. I'm surprised she hasn't released one last year or this year with it being her 50th anniversary

That said, in certain situations you are right that they are completely pointless and it's the label that pushes them. I remember P!nk saying in interviews when she released hers in 2010 that her label wanted her to release one for the past 5 years and she managed to persuade them not to by releasing I'm Not Dead and Funhouse quite close together and tour in between them. Then in 2010 it was her 10th anniversary and they said to her they were going to release it with or without her participation [same thing was said to Spice Girls and Steps which led to their reunions] and so she gave in and they made a deal with her that they'd give her time to go in the recording studio to record a few new songs for it as she said she didn't want to release an album without any new music for the fans

I suppose Greatest Hits albums are more for casual fans rather than hardcore fans. I think after 10 years they serve a purpose then should be rereleased after every 3 or 4 albums