Following the release and success of her album Loud (2010), Rihanna originally revealed via Twitter that the album would be re-issued with new songs and released in Fall 2011, writing that "[t]he [Loud era] continues with more new music to add to [your] collection". In September 2011, Rihanna again took to the social networking site to confirm that the plans had been scrapped, with the singer tweeting "I [thought about] a [re-release], but LOUD is its own body of work! Plus [you] guys work so hard that [you] deserve to act brand new". On September 19, 2011, Rihanna further provoked excitement amongst her followers when she posted that she was listening to the song, only to be re-tweeted by Calvin Harris, who replied "Sometimes it feels like we find love in the most hopeless place", suggesting that his response contained possible lyrics from the song. In an interview with Capital FM, Harris – who produced the track – explained that followers of Rihanna had sent messages to him regarding their expectations of the song, saying "The song better not be rubbish", which he interpreted as slightly threatening, but went on to say that "it's all part of the fun". In an interview for Q magazine, Harris said of the lyric, "we found love in a hopeless place," "It could have been Jumpin Jaks in Dumfries (Harris' home town), I don't know exactly what I was thinking about."[citation needed]
"We Found Love" premiered in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2011, on Capital FM, and was sent for mainstream adds in the United States on October 11, 2011. The song was released via iTunes on September 22, 2011. During an interview with MTV News, Calvin Harris revealed, "'We Found Love,' is the most successful thing I've done ever... It's not strictly a song by me, obviously, it's by Rihanna. She sings it...It was great to work with her... No one could have taken it as far as she did. You can't escape it here [in America]. I've heard it a lot. I've heard it probably more times today than I did when I was mixing it. Which is a good thing... Ever since the Rihanna song did well, a lot of people want to do some stuff, which is great... That's what I enjoy doing. In terms of actual names, I've not done anything yet." "We Found Love" was a major commercial success. In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for ten non-consecutive weeks, becoming the longest running number one single of 2011 and of the 2010s until Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (2013), as well as surpassing "Umbrella" as her longest running number one single. It became Rihanna's eleventh song to top the Hot 100, placing her in third place amongst female recording artists amassing the most number one singles.
In the United Kingdom, "We Found Love" debuted at number one with 87,000 copies sold on the UK Singles Chart,[80] UK Dance Chart and UK Digital Download Chart on October 9, 2011, despite only having been released for four days. With "We Found Love" debuting atop the singles chart, the singer set a record by becoming the first female solo artist to top the chart six times in five consecutive years, having previously held pole position with "Umbrella", "Take A Bow", "Run This Town", "Only Girl (In The World)" and "What's My Name" between 2007 and 2011. The song retained its number-one position on all three charts for three consecutive weeks, selling 92,000 copies in its third week. In its fourth week on the chart, the song slipped to number three on the singles chart, but still sold 85,453 copies - the highest number-three position sales mark since The Darkness's "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" in the last week of 2003. Total sales for "We Found Love" in the United Kingdom stood at 372,268 after just 24 days. In its fifth week, the song climbed a place to number two but then in its sixth week, the song returned to number-one for a fourth non-consecutive week (the record would be broken 3 years later when Pharrell Williams' single "Happy" took a five week break from the top-spot before returning to pole position) and eventually topped the chart for six weeks, resulting in Rihanna overtaking Adele as the artist with the most cumulutive weeks at number one of 2011, with a total of seven weeks between "We Found Love" and her January release "What's My Name?". In addition, in its sixth week Rihanna scored her second "chart double" of the year when Talk That Talk and its debut single placed at number one on both the albums and singles charts. This achievement had not been achieved since 1979 and made Rihanna the first female artist in chart history to score two "chart doubles" in the same year, with the singer's previous album Loud and its second single, 'What's My Name?' topping both charts earlier in 2011. By February 2012, the single had racked up 1,006,460 copies in 19 weeks, making it Rihanna's second solo track (third overall) to reach the million sales plateau since October 2011, following "Love The Way You Lie" (Eminem featuring Rihanna) and "Only Girl (In the World)". In November 2012, it was included on 'The Million Sellers' list by the Official Charts Company, consisting of the best-selling singles in the UK that have sold at least one million copies since 1952. It charted at number 76 out of a total 123, having sold 1.13 million copies. As of November 2013, the single has sold 1.32 million copies in the UK alone, marking Rihanna's biggest-selling single in the country of her career. The song debuted at number one in Scotland on October 15, 2011. The single is the 9th best-selling song of all time by a female artist in the UK
Peak Positions
Australia : 2
Germany : 1
France : 1
Italy : 3
Canada : 1
UK : 1
US : 1
Estimated WW sales : 9,200,000
Estimated US sales : 5,020,000
Estimated UK sales : 1,330,000
Estimated Austr sales : 450,000
11. Rude Boy
12. Disturbia
13. Hard ft Jeezy
14. S&M
15. Take A Bow
16. Shut Up And Drive
17. Unfaithful
18. SOS
19. Jump
20. Te Amo
21. Love The Way You Lie ft Eminem
22. Wait Your Turn
23. Rehab
24. What Now
25. Pon De Replay
26. Pour It Up
27. Rockstar 101
28. Cheers (Drink To That)
29. Talk That Talk ft Jay Z
30. You Da One
31. Princess Of China ft Coldplay
32. The Monster ft Eminem
33. Birthday Cake ft Chris Brown
34. Hate That I Love You ft Ne-Yo
35. Can't Remember To Forget You ft Shakira
36. California King Bed
37. Take Care ft Drake
38. Run This Town ft Jay Z
39. Live Your Life ft T.I.
40. If It's Lovin That You Want
41. Who's That Chick?
42. Fly ft Nicki Minaj
43. If I Never See Your Face Again ft Marron 5
44. Break It Off ft Sean Paul
45. All Of The Lights ft Kanye West
46. Cockiness (I Love It)
47. Right Now
48. We Ride
49. Bad ft Wale
50.Turn Up The Music ft Chris Brown
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