{"id":58767,"date":"2016-03-29T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=58767"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:28:54","slug":"rihanna-confirms-kiss-it-better-needed-me-as-next-radio-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2016\/03\/29\/rihanna-confirms-kiss-it-better-needed-me-as-next-radio-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Confirms &#8220;Kiss It Better,&#8221; &#8220;Needed Me&#8221; As Next Radio Singles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those wondering which &#8220;ANTI&#8221; track would serve as the follow-up to Rihanna&#8217;s &#8220;Work (featuring Drake)&#8221; just received two answers.<\/p>\n<p>The artist confirmed that both &#8220;Kiss It Better&#8221; and &#8220;Needed Me&#8221; would be serviced to radio at 7AM ET Wednesday morning &#8212; nine weeks (exactly to the day, almost to the hour) after &#8220;Work&#8221; first debuted at radio.<\/p>\n<p>While the idea of a dual-single promotion may be surprising, neither specific selection should elicit raised eyebrows.  &#8220;Kiss It Better&#8221; has been widely regarded as both a fan favorite and commercially accessible song, while &#8220;Needed Me&#8221; has been the best performing album track, as evidenced by its continued presence on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>Def Jam has yet to provide additional details regarding the push, including insight into format designation.<\/p>\n<p>The two tracks enter the market with lofty shoes to fill; &#8220;Work&#8221; has spent the past four weeks atop the Mediabase rhythmic and urban airplay charts.  It is inside the Top 10 at pop and Top 50 at hot adult contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>The official single covers follow:<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,206],"tags":[5162,54,5765,5761,129,2413],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rihanna Confirms &quot;Kiss It Better,&quot; &quot;Needed Me&quot; As Next Radio Singles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Those wondering which &quot;ANTI&quot; track would serve as the follow-up to Rihanna&#039;s &quot;Work (featuring Drake)&quot; just received two answers. 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