Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes

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American publication Rap-Up announced on December 21, 2008 that Rihanna would release her first remix album, titled Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, in late-January 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.rap-up.com/2008/12/21/rihanna-kicks-off-09-with-a-bang/|title=Rihanna Kicks Off '09 with a Bang|work=Rap-Up|publisher=Devin Lazerine|access-date=February 13, 2012|date=December 21, 2008|archive-date=November 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102220233/http://www.rap-up.com/2008/12/21/rihanna-kicks-off-09-with-a-bang/|url-status=dead}} The cover art, designed by Ciarra Pardo, and the official release date were revealed two days later.{{cite web|url=http://www.rap-up.com/2008/12/23/album-cover-rihanna-good-girl-gone-bad-the-remixes/|title=Album Cover: Rihanna – 'Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes'|work=Rap-Up|publisher=Devin Lazerine|date=December 23, 2008|access-date=February 13, 2012}} Def Jam Recordings released the album in the United States on January 27, 2009, in CD, digital, and vinyl formats.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girl-Gone-Bad-Remixes/dp/B001PZ4G68|title=Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes: Rihanna|website=Amazon |access-date=February 12, 2012}} The set was later released in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2009.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Girl-Gone-Bad-Remixes/dp/B001O2BR8M|title=Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes: Rihanna|publisher=Amazon.co.uk|access-date=February 12, 2012}} The compilation is made up of electronic dance remixes of tracks from Rihanna's third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad and two songs from its 2008 re-release, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded. All standard edition tracks from the original album were remixed for the compilation, excluding "Lemme Get That", "Rehab" and "Sell Me Candy".

The remixes were done by producers and disc jockeys Moto Blanco, Jody den Broeder, Paul Emanuel, Seamus Haji, K-Klass, Lindbergh Palace, Tony Moran, Warren Rigg, Soul Seekerz and Wideboys.{{cite AV media notes| title= Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes |others=Rihanna |year=2009 |type=CD liner |publisher=Def Jam Recordings|id=B0012603-02}} Soul Seekerz and Wideboys contributed the most remixes, with three tracks each—"Breakin' Dishes", the original album's title song and "Say It" were provided by Soul Seekerz, while Wideboys remixed "Shut Up and Drive", "Question Existing", and "Don't Stop the Music". On the back cover, however, the Wideboys remix of "Don't Stop the Music" is mistakenly credited to Jody den Broeder. A Broeder remix of the track was released, but was not included on the album. The track listing is a reworked version of the bonus disc from the European deluxe edition of Good Girl Gone Bad. However, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes excludes the remixes of the A Girl like Me single "SOS" and the Good Girl Gone Bad bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted", in favor of remixes of the new Reloaded tracks "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow".{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/good-girl-gone-bad-import-bonus-cd-r1439688|title=Good Girl Gone Bad [Import Bonus CD]|publisher=AllMusic. Rovi Corporation|access-date=February 13, 2012}} Additionally, a Lindbergh Palace remix of "Umbrella" was added. While the original album's bonus disc includes the full-length remixes, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes includes only radio edits, which cut the original versions by three to four minutes.

Critical reception of Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes was generally mixed. Jamie Nicholes of Noize Magazine was positive and observed that "there's actually quite a bit ... to appreciate here". The writer noted that the radio edits were possibly used to "make it more digestible to the masses who don't understand full length mixes".{{cite web|url=http://www.noizemag.com/index.php/articles/music_reviews/rihanna_good_girl_gone_bad_remixes/|title=Rihanna/ Good Girl Gone Bad Remixes|work=Noize Magazine|publisher=Stephen Ceplenski|access-date=February 13, 2012|date=April 2009|last=Nicholes|first=Jamie|archive-date=September 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920025507/http://www.noizemag.com/index.php/articles/music_reviews/rihanna_good_girl_gone_bad_remixes|url-status=dead}} In an editorial review for Rhapsody, Rachel Devitt briefly commented that Rihanna gets "even more mileage out of her phenomenal, hit-generating third album" with the remix compilation.{{cite web|url=http://www.rhapsody.com/album/Alb.25506032|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913183807/http://www.rhapsody.com/album/Alb.25506032|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2012|title=Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes : Rihanna|publisher=Rhapsody|last=Devitt|first=Rachel|access-date=February 13, 2012}} Between the Lines critic Chris Azzopardi was mixed in his review, writing: "Milking her 2007 album, Good Girl Gone Bad, for the third time, the 12-track disc is (insert frown here) all radio edits." The reviewer regarded the content as "mostly tightly produced", naming the two remixes of "Umbrella" and the sped-up "Push Up on Me" as examples.{{cite news|url=http://pridesource.com/article.html?article=34025 |title=Not so regular |last=Azzopardi |first=Chris |work=Between the Lines |date=February 26, 2009 |issue=1709 |publisher=Pride Source Media Group |access-date=February 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203951/http://pridesource.com/article.html?article=34025 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} AllMusic's Andy Kellman was also mixed regarding the compilation, calling it "both a cash-in and a wasted opportunity."{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/good-girl-gone-bad-the-remixes-mr0001022249|title=Good Girl Gone Bad [The Remixes]|last=Kellman|first=Andy|publisher=AllMusic. Rovi Corporation|access-date=February 12, 2012}} Kellman liked that the label opted for the radio edits instead of the full-length versions, remarking: "The edits ... were possibly favored to further emphasize the disc's alternate standing to the original set ... it plays out more like a proper album than a standard, disjointed remix compilation." Kellman recommended the album for fans who had "worn out the original album", commenting that "the disc will certainly help pass the time before Rihanna's fourth album".

In the United States, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes debuted and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of just under 5,000 copies.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604280/bruce-springsteen-unseats-taylor-swift-on-billboard-chart.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209215744/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604280/bruce-springsteen-unseats-taylor-swift-on-billboard-chart.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 9, 2012|title=Bruce Springsteen Unseats Taylor Swift On Billboard Albums Chart|date=February 4, 2009|work=MTV News|publisher=Viacom|last=Kaufman|first=Gil|access-date=February 13, 2012}} It also debuted at number four on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/365068/rihanna/chart?f=322|title=Good Girl Gone Bad [The Remixes]|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=February 13, 2012}} Ultimately, the album remained on Dance/Electronic Albums chart for a total of 18 weeks and was ranked at number 22 on the 2009 year-end chart.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2009/dance-electronic-albums|title=Year End Charts 2009 – Dance/Electronic Albums|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004152906/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2009/dance-electronic-albums|archive-date=October 4, 2012}} It also peaked at number 59 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. By July 2010, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes had sold 49,000 copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/957214/ask-billboard-rating-rihanna|title=Ask Billboard: Rating Rihanna |magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|last=Trust|first=Gary|date=July 23, 2010|access-date=February 14, 2012}}

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

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| headline = Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes track listing

| title1 = Umbrella

| note1 = featuring Jay-Z; Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel

| writer1 = {{flat list|

• Shawn Carter
• Kuk Harrell
• Terius Nash
• Christopher "Tricky" Stewart

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| extra1 = {{flat list|

• Tricky Stewart
• Seamus Haji^
• Paul Emanuel^

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| length1 = 3:58

| title2 = Disturbia

| note2 = Jody den Broeder

| writer2 = {{flat list|

• Robert Allen
• Andre Merritt
• Chris Brown
• Brian Kennedy

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| extra2 = {{flat list|

• Brian Kennedy
• Jody den Broeder^

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| length2 = 3:52

| title3 = Shut Up and Drive

| note3 = Wideboys

| writer3 = {{flat list|

• Carl Sturken
• Evan Rogers
• Bernard Sumner
• Peter Hook
• Stephen Morris
• Gillian Gilbert

}}

| extra3 =

{{flat list|

• Sturken
• Rogers
• Wideboys^

}}

| length3 = 3:39

| title4 = Don't Stop the Music

| note4 = Wideboys**

| writer4 = {{flat list|

• Mikkel S. Eriksen
• Tor Erik Hermansen
• Tawanna Dabney
• Michael Jackson

}}

| extra4 = {{flat list|

• Stargate
• Wideboys^

}}

| length4 = 3:10

| title5 = Take a Bow

| note5 = Tony Moran & Warren Rigg

| writer5 = {{flat list|

• Hermansen
• Eriksen
• Shaffer Smith

}}

| extra5 = {{flat list|

• Stargate
• Ne-Yo
• Tony Moran^
• Warren Rigg^

}}

| length5 = 4:02

| title6 = Breakin' Dishes

| note6 = Soul Seekerz

| writer6 = {{flat list|

• Stewart
• Terius Nash

}}

| extra6 = {{flat list|

• Stewart
• Soul Seekerz^

}}

| length6 = 3:19

| title7 = Hate That I Love You

| note7 = featuring Ne-Yo; K-Klassic

| writer7 = {{flat list|

• Smith
• Eriksen
• Hermansen

}}

| extra7 = {{flat list|

• Stargate
• K-Klass^

}}

| length7 = 3:58

| title8 = Question Existing

| note8 = Wideboys

| writer8 = {{flat list|

• Smith
• Shea Taylor
• Carter

}}

| extra8 = {{flat list|

• Shea Taylor
• Ne-Yo*
• Wideboys^

}}

| length8 = 3:40

| title9 = Push Up on Me

| note9 = Moto Blanco

| writer9 = {{flat list|

• J. R. Rotem
• Makeba Riddick
• Lionel Richie
• Cynthia Weil

}}

| extra9 = {{flat list|

• J. R. Rotem
• Moto Blanco^

}}

| length9 = 3:28

| title10 = Good Girl Gone Bad

| note10 = Soul Seekerz

| writer10 = {{flat list|

• Smith
• Hermansen
• Eriksen
• Lene Marlin

}}

| extra10 = {{flat list|

• Stargate
• Soul Seekerz^

}}

| length10 = 3:29

| title11 = Say It

| note11 = Soul Seekerz

| writer11 = {{flat list|

• Riddick
• Quaadir Atkinson
• Ewart Brown
• Clifton Dillon
• Sly Dunbar
• Brian Thompson

}}

| extra11 ={{flat list|

• Neo Da Matrix
• Soul Seekerz^

}}

| length11 = 4:21

| title12 = Umbrella

| note12 = featuring Jay-Z; Lindbergh Palace

| writer12 = {{flat list|

• Carter
• Harrell
• Nash
• Stewart

}}

| extra12 = {{flat list|

• Stewart
• Lindbergh Palace^

}}

| length12 = 3:53

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(*) denotes co-producer

(**) mistakenly credited to Jody den Broeder

Credits are adapted from the Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes booklet.

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• Robert Allen – songwriting
• Joey Arbagey – remix A&R
• Quaadir Atkinson – songwriting
• Chris Brown – background vocals, songwriting
• Ewart Brown – songwriting
• Jay Brown – A&R
• The Carter Administration – executive production
• Shawn Carter – songwriting
• Jon Cohen – keyboards
• Eddie Craig – additional production, remixing
• Kevin "KD" Davis – mixing
• Jody den Broeder – additional production, remixing
• Roberto Deste – photography
• Clifton Dillon – songwriting
• Sly Dunbar – songwriting
• Paul Emanuel – additional production, drums, keyboards, remixing
• Mikkel Storleer Eriksen – recording, songwriting
• Gillian Gilbert – songwriting
• Seamus Haji – drums, keyboards, additional production, remixing
• Kuk Harrell – recording, songwriting, vocal production
• Danny Harrison – additional production, remixing
• Al Hemberger – mixing, recording
• Tor Erik Hermansen – songwriting
• Andy Hickey – keyboards
• Peter Hook – songwriting
• Michael Jackson – songwriting
• Julian Jonah – guitar
• Terese Joseph – A&R administration
• Doug Joswick – package production
• K-Klass – additional production, remixing
• Brian Kennedy – production
• Simon Langford – additional production, keyboards, remixing
• Daniel Laporte – recording
• Fabienne Leys – A&R coordination
• Lindbergh Palace – remixing
• Deborah Mannis-Gardner – sample clearance agent
• Manny Marroquin – mixing
• Andre Merritt – songwriting, background vocals

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• Tony Moran – engineering, remixing
• Russ Morgan – additional production, remixing
• Stephen Morris – songwriting
• Moto Blanco – additional production, remixing
• Julian Napolitano – additional production, keyboards, remixing
• Ne-Yo – production, vocal production
• Neo Da Matrix – production
• Greg Ogan – recording
• Ciarra Pardo – art direction, design
• Lionel Richie – songwriting
• Makeba Riddick – songwriting, vocal production
• Warren Rigg – engineering, remixing
• Paul Roberts – production, remixing
• J. Peter Robinson – art direction, design
• Evan Rogers – executive production, production, songwriting
• J. R. Rotem – production, songwriting
• Brian Seals – songwriting
• George Seara – recording
• Arthur Smith – additional production, remixing
• Shaffer Smith – songwriting
• Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith – A&R
• Soul Seekerz – remixing
• Stargate – production
• Christopher Stewart – songwriting, production
• Carl Sturken – executive production, production, songwriting
• Jim Sullivan – additional production, remixing
• Bernard Sumner – songwriting
• Phil Tan – mixing
• Shea Taylor – production, songwriting
• Brian Thompson – songwriting
• Mike Tocci – recording, supervising engineering
• Marcos Tovar – supervising engineering
• Andrew Vastola – recording
• Cynthia Weil – songwriting
• Wideboys – additional production, remixing
• Andrew Wiliams – additional production, engineering, remixing
• Leon Zervos – mastering

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