ANTi is Rihanna’s eighth studio album. Following a premature leak on TIDAL, she released the album as a free download on January 28, 2016. The album spawned the number one Drake-assisted hit “Work,” which as of April 18th, 2016, has spent nine consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. With this album, Rihanna steps away from her pop and club roots. In an interview with MTV, she confessed that she wants to make timeless music: I just wanted to focus on things that felt real, that felt soulful, that felt forever. I wanted songs that I could perform in 15 years; I wanted an album that I could perform in 15 years. Not any songs that were burnt out. I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. Rihanna’s philosophy of ANTi was explained at an album art show in October 2015: Her work strives to make an impact by doing the very antithesis of what the public expects.