Rihanna's ANTI album breaks the charts and internet

Rihanna's ANTI album release on Jan. 27 has lit up the real-time Billboard and Twitter Trending 140, as a number of the set's cuts united to become the top discussed and shared tracks on the platform in the first day of the set’s release.

The Trending 140 chart measures the acceleration of conversation around artists and their music, while the Emerging Artists chart measures the volume of tweets around new artists and their songs.

As word of the album’s release spread on Twitter, several of Anti's cuts scored high debuts on the Trending 140 chart, led by the album’s lead single “Work,” which hit No. 1 for 15 nonconsecutive hours as Twitter’s most shared and discussed song upon its release.

One day after the Drake -assisted first single premiered on Jan. 27, a leak forced Rihanna and crew to advance the Anti release to Wednesday night (Jan. 28), up two days from a projected debut on Friday (Jan. 29).

In addition to “Work,” Rihanna scored three additional Anti No. 1s on the Trending 140, led by “Consideration,” the album’s opening track.

The SZA-featured number clocked four hours as the top trending track in the U.S. Meanwhile, popular cut “Kiss It Better” also climbed to No. 1 for one hour, before logging three nonconsecutive hours in the runner-up slot, and “Higher,” which the singer teased as far as back as March in Instagram posts, likewise leapt to a No. 1 placement.