00:00Rihanna's single, Work, is up for two Grammy Awards this year.
00:04The single has gone platinum five times in the U.S., meaning more than 5 million copies sold.
00:09At $1.29 per iTunes download, the single has made an estimated $6.45 million.
00:16So how much would the average American have to work, work, work, work, work to keep up with Rihanna's single?
00:22The median American wage is just under $48,100.
00:26That's 134 years of work, work, work to catch up with Rihanna's song.
00:31At $7.25 an hour, a minimum wage employee would have to work nearly 305 years without a day off to earn what Rihanna's catchy single made.
00:41Makes us very tired, tired, tired, tired, tired to think about.
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