SOS: A Girl Like Me Rankdown (Revealing)

[Normi]

5. Break It Off (ft. Sean Paul)

Points 93

SD 3,687817783

Median 6




"Break it off" is track #7 on "A Girl Like Me" and was the album's 4th and final single. It became Rihanna's 4th Top 10 single peaking at #9. This has grown on me over th years, it's quite a cute bop!

Ty 2

Choco 3

George 3

SHOOTER 3

Mayman 4

jtd Thee Stallion 4

.indulgecountry 5

fearlessarrow 6

bat1990 6

stallie 6

.exclusive 7

Normi 7

aerodynamite 9

samo🦕 14

@greento 14


The four remaining songs are the first four songs on the tracklist and the next one to go sees no #1s.

[SHOOTER]

A dated AF 2006 bop! Still mad we never got the island flavored video we deserved from these two.

[Normi]

4. Kisses Don't Lie

Points 81

SD 3,135055251

Median 4



"Kisses Don't Lie" is the second track on the album and a classic in my opinion. This should have definitely been a single at one point and might have been planned to be but the era was cut short. Great to see it place as the highest non-single.

Mayman 2

bat1990 2

SHOOTER 2

.exclusive 3

Normi 4

Choco 4

.indulgecountry 4

Ty 4

stallie 5

samo🦕 6

aerodynamite 6

@greento 7

fearlessarrow 10

jtd Thee Stallion 10

George 12




The next song is one of the 14 #1s

[Choco]

We Ride is top three? wow.

[Normi]

3. We Ride

Points 74

SD 3,217511609

Median 5




"We Ride" is track #4 on the album and was the album's 3rd single, peaking within the Top 10 in New Zealand. I've always found the chorus to be a bit too repetitive but there are some amazing melodies in here. Great song!

stallie 1

jtd Thee Stallion 2

aerodynamite 2

Mayman 3

.indulgecountry 3

bat1990 3

Ty 3

.exclusive 5

SHOOTER 5

Normi 5

Choco 5

George 6

fearlessarrow 8

@greento 11

samo🦕 12




SOS vs. Unfaithful

[Normi]

2. Unfaithful

Points 53

SD 3,377798663

Median 2




"Unfaithful" is the 3rd track on the album. It was released as the second single peaking at #6 on the Hot 100 while reaching success worldwide. Always loved this one, she sounds so great on the track.


jtd Thee Stallion 1

Choco 1

fearlessarrow 1

Ty 1

@greento 1

Normi 2

.indulgecountry 2

George 2

.exclusive 2

stallie 3

aerodynamite 5

Mayman 5

SHOOTER 7

bat1990 7

samo🦕 13


1. SOS

Points 33

SD 2,177810171 (lowest)
Median 1




"SOS" is the opening track and lead single for the album. It was a global smash and became Rihanna's first #1 hit on the Hot 100. This is holy bop that holds up well to this day with punchy production and a catchy melody. (I love the part around 3:30)
Well deserved winner!

Normi 1

.exclusive 1

samo🦕 1

Mayman 1

bat1990 1

aerodynamite 1

SHOOTER 1

.indulgecountry 1

@greento 2

stallie 2

Choco 2

fearlessarrow 2

jtd Thee Stallion 3

Ty 5

George 9





Thanks a lot for participating and I hope you come back for the Loud (era) rankdown which will open soon!

[SHOOTER]

Whew chile...them Unfaithful vocals did not age well at all! Glad the correct song won.

Thanks for hosting Normi can't wait to rank Loud and TTT in 2024!

[Kanenrá:ke]

I didn't end up getting my list in but I'm more or less happy with the results!!

[Ty]

Even though "SOS" wasn't my favorite from this era, but Ms. Fenty definitely bodied the song. Christina Milian's team was really foolish to have passed this obvious hit.

[ClevelandRox]

Not sure if y'all are doing these in order, but if there are more Rihanna rankdowns ahead, please tag me!

[.indulgecountry]

"SOS" was the only correct winner.

Pleasantly surprised to see "We Ride" higher than "Break It Off" here. I expected the results to be the other way around in re: those two singles. Happy "Kisses" was the highest album cut, too, as it was really the only truly great non-single on the album, lol.