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LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- Rihanna's latest album Anti is back atop the Billboard albums chart at No. 1 for a second time. Featuring Rihanna's hit single with Drake entitled "Work," Anti placed first with an additional 54,000 equivalent album units sold for the week ending March 17.
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With only 17,000 of those units accounting for pure album sales, Anti's success is attributed to the popularity of "Work" which has stayed number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for four weeks in a row.
The singer's eighth studio album had previously topped the charts in February once it was released in stores after it was only available exclusively on music streaming service Tidal in January.
Anti marks Rihanna's second album to hit No. 1 following her 2012 release, Unapologetic. All previous studio albums have charted in Billboard's Top Ten with Anti being the only project to spend two weeks in the top spot.
Rounding out the rest of Billboard's albums charts is Adele's 25 in second place with 51,000 units sold and Justin Bieber's Purpose in third with 48,000 units sold.
Rihanna is also making headlines for her stunned reaction following a fan's performance during a concert Saturday in Cincinnati as part of her Anti World Tour. While performing her single "FourFiveSeconds," Rihanna allowed a fan in the audience, Terah Stewart, to sing along with her.
Fan video taken during the concert shows Stewart impressing Rihanna and those in attendance with his singing voice. A Ohio State University administrator, Stewart commented on the moment on Twitter stating "Y'all don't understand how long I have been riding for @rihanna. I will never forget this. She followed me too."
