Rihanna

Stage name of Rihanna, Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( born February 20, Saint Michael, 1988), is a Barbadian R & B singer. Rihanna worldwide broke through with her first single Pon de Replay, that in many countries the top five earned and spent not long after debut album Music of the Sun the second album A Girl Like Me with SOS as lead single, that was an even bigger hit. In 2007, she released the album Good Girl Gone Bad with Umbrella as first single, that peaked in the national charts in many countries.Then came the albums ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRated_R. Rated R.] in 2009, in 2010, Loud Talk That Talk in 2011, and Unapologetic ''in 2012. In total, the singer worldwide thirty million albums and singles sold 120 million. In Netherlands and Flanders is her most successful single Diamonds .'''



Content
[hide] *1 early life 
 * 1.1 2005-2006: Music of the Sun
 * 1.2 2006-2007: A Girl Like Me
 * 1.3 2007-2008: Good Girl Gone Bad
 * 1.4 2009-2010: Rated R.
 * 1.5 2010-2011: Loud
 * 1.6 2011-2012: Talk That Talk
 * 1.7 2012-present: Unapologetic
 * 1.8 private life
 * 2 musical style and themes
 * 3 film role
 * 4 Prices
 * 5 discography
 * 5.1 Albums
 * 5.2 Singles
 * 5.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 6 Filmography
 * 6.1 Movies
 * 6.2 television programs
 * 6.3 Dvds
 * 6.4 videography
 * 7 Tours
 * 8 external links

Life Course
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados. She has two older brothers. Rihanna sat on a gymnasium. In 2004, she won a beauty contest and she sang during her school's talent show, Mariah Careys Hero. [1]  Producer Evan Rogers and his wife were on holiday in Barbados and a friend suggested the man for to Rihanna. Her demos were sent to several record labels, including Def Jam Recordingswhere Rihanna eventually signed a contract. Rihanna once said that she looks up to the former Def Jamartist Fefe Dobson. [source? ] Her father Ronald struggled for years with a crack addiction, something effect has had on her life. [2]

2005-2006: Music of the Sun
Rihanna's debut album, Music of the Sun, was released on 31 August 2005. Came the singles Pon de Replay and If it's Lovin' that You Want out. Her debut single Pon de Replay came on October 11, 2005 and was a worldwide success. The single came second place in the u.s. Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles ChartBritish. In the Flemish Ultratop 50 ended up at number five. In the Dutch Top 40 was less successful and Pon de Replay came no further than the eighteenth place. The single was written by Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken with Rihanna.

Music of the Sun came in the top 10 of the United States (10) and Canada (on 7) and got the Gold status in the US and around the world that of Platinum by two million copies sold. To promote her album, she toured with singer Gwen Stefani. Rihanna's second single If it's Lovin' That You Want was less successful. The single reached the 36th place in the United States, 25th in Flanders, number seventeen in the United Kingdom in Netherlands and eleven. Let Me the third single was only released in Japan, where he came to number 8 on the charts.

2006-2007: A Girl Like Me
Eight months after Rihanna Music of the Sun was released, came her second album A Girl Like Me out. Rihanna wrote it, along with [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNike%2C_Inc. Nike] and J.C. Penney. The first single from the album, titled SOS was a great international success and was used for a deal with Nike. For the number two video clips were created, one for television and one specifically for Nike. The song reached the first position in the United States, with which she had her first number one hit in that country scored. It became her first top 10 hit in the Dutch Top 40, where it ended up at number four. Also in Flanders it became a hit with the second spot as highlight.The single who then came out, entitled Unfaithful, was written by R & B-singer-songwriter Ne-Yo and has cheating and guilt as theme. Once again took out the United States, the high positions in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Flanders with the fourth, sixth, second and third place. We Ride Unfaithful followed on, but had not the success of the previous singles. The fourth single, Break It Off, was a collaboration with Sean Paul, released in the United States and some European countries. The managers and of Rihanna and Sean Paul had decided no music video record.'''

Rihanna also took the song Just Be Happy by Ne-Yo on for a deal with Clinique to promote their latest ' Happy' store. In addition, they promoted P & g's Secretdeodorant, for which she Winning Women took up withNicole Scherzinger .

2007-2008: Good Girl Gone Bad
On 1 June 2007, it was the third album released in Netherlands: Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad. Thus she went, as the album title indicates, a more sexy side on and also hit them in another musical road by using more pop rockand danceinfluences. The first single was Umbrella Rihanna's biggest hit worldwide. He was seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 at number one and he was there on Beyoncé's Irreplaceable after the largest single of 2007. Rihanna scored with the number in the United States its fifth toptienhit in a period of less than two years. In the United Kingdom it was Rihanna's first nummeréénhit, the song stayed ten weeks come first, longest since ten years. Also in Belgium it was Rihanna's first nummeréénhit. In Netherlands, the single to number two. Umbrella was the world's most successful single of 2007, where they Amy Winehouse'Rehab Timbalands Apologize and with it defeated.

The second single Shut Up and Drive, was Rihanna's fifth toptienhit in the United Kingdom and Flanders where he respectively at number five and number nine came. In the Hot 100 and to number fifteen in Netherlands he came in fifth place. "Don't Stop the Music" successor would originally be rotated only in the dance scene but was due to the large number of music downloads and the many radioairplay still released on single. It earned third place in the American chart, a fourth in the United Kingdom, where the single all in the charts two months before publication of the single. In Netherlands and Flanders, the song was a number one hit. As a fourth single was Hate That I Love You, a duet with Ne-Yo released that in seventh place in the Netherlands top 40 pulled out. In the United States and the United Kingdom, where the song came out rather than "Don't Stop the Music", the song was also a hit.

Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded came there from mid-2008 and the first single of it: Take a Bow. [3]  In both the United States and the United Kingdom came the number on the first place. In the Netherlands came to the third place. Also the song "If I Never See Your Face Again came from Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, a song in collaboration with Maroon 5. Disturbia was the seventh single from the album and also this did well. As the eighth and final single she chose Rehab with Justin Timberlake, which reached the third position in Netherlands. The album is the best-selling album of the singer in the United States so far and has already reached the multiple Platinum status. In that year she was also to hear as a guest artist on a single by T.I. titled Live Your Life. Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes was released in 2009 with remixes of the songs from Good Girl Gone Bad.

Rihanna started 12 september 2007 the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour by Canada, the United States and later also by Europe. Her performance at the Manchester Evening News Arena on december 6, is on the dvd , Good Girl Gone Bad: Live to see. On 21 november 2007 gave Rihanna a concert in the Heineken Music Hall. The next day, she was also in Belgium on stage at forest national in Brussels. On 12 July 2008, 100,000 visitors to the Casablanca Stadium to see action, Morocco to Rihanna, what her biggest audience ever was. During the continuation of the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour with Rihanna in the East faced some problems, by heat she ran off the stage when she the last sentences of Umbrella along with Chris Brown sang. Also in Singapore there were problems during the opening of the concert. By an unknown reason stopped her microphone during Disturbia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  they Also toured with artists such as Kanye West and n. e. r. D in the Glow in the Dark tour.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With H & M has them fighting against hiv/AIDS. To do this, they used the proceeds from her designed clothing line Fashion Against Aids.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  Rihanna also released a umbrella line from, with a nod to her singleUmbrella. On 21 February, Rihanna in Barbados honored with a national party. Rihanna Day has since been celebrated every year in her homeland Barbados.

2009-2010: Rated R.
Rihanna Rockstar 101 sings during Last Girl on Earth Tour inAntwerp in Belgium. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rihanna started end of 2008 to work on a new album and wanted the side smashing Good Girl Gone Bad-numbers Disturbia, Shut Up and Drive and Breakin' Dishes. Eventually, the album by R & B-inspired numbers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In July 2009 "Run This Town" was released, written by the American rapper Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West. It peaked at number 2 in the u.s. Billboard Hot 100. In the spring of 2010 Rated R: Remixed was released. At the 52nd Grammy Awards "Run This Town" won two awards, including Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On October 20, was the first single released Russian Roulette . Just before the release of Rated r. came Hard, a collaboration with rapper Young Jeezy in the United States, with a small success in several countries. This was followed by the single Rude Boy. This was a number one hit in many countries and was even a bigger success than the first single from the album. Later followed the single Te Amo, while in America the song Rockstar 101, a collaboration with Slash, came out. Wait Your Turn was the promotional single from the album. It peaked at number 17 in the United Kingdom.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To promote the album, she went on tour. The tour was called Last Girl on Earth Tour, and began in the Sportpaleis in Antwerp.

2010-2011: Loud
Rihanna during her Loud Tour in Hannover, Germanyin november 2011. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Loud was released on 12 november in Netherlands and Belgium. The first single Only Girl (In the World) was released as a download on september 10, 2010. The previously leaked single who's That Chick?, a collaborative project with David Guetta was not on the album but was promotion for the Doritos and chipsmerk stood on the reissue of Guetta's ' album One Love. The second single was "what's My Name?, a duet with Drake. On the much-discussed third single leave Rihanna S & M itself from its most sexual side. The song made all for a lot of criticism in several countries including America and was in the United Kingdom under the alternative title released Come On . On 11 april, of S & M released a remix with Britney Spears . There was also a collaboration with Kanye West on the song All of the Lights from his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The subsequent single was chosen by the fans. They could choose from Man Down, Fading , California King Bed and Cheers (Drink To That), which eventually became California King Bed .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  The video clip of them came on May 9, 2011. In the United States, however, was Man Down released as the third single and fourth California King Bed . The clip of Man Downwas recorded in Jamaica, which was released on 1 June. Cheers (Drink to That) is in some countries, including Belgium, also released as a single. On the other hand, Netherlands was skipped this time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To promote the album, she performed at the Saturday Night LiveShow, Today Show, the Grammy Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and more. On 4 June 2011 she started with herLoud Tour, which ended on 23 december. On some dates, Drake, Jay-Z or Kanye West on stage also. In the United States were j. Cole and B.o .b's the opening acts, in Europe provided the dj Calvin Harris for the program. Rihanna ordered two concerts in Sweden because of the flu. Loud Tour earned seventh place in a list of the most successful concerts of 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]

2011-2012: Talk That Talk
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Supposed to be a Deluxe version of to bring out Loud was eventually deleted in favour of a new album Talk That Talk. The first single was We Found Love on Thursday 22 september 2011 released.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="159" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  this track was produced by Calvin Harris.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">By the number We Found Love Rihanna became the fastest selling solo artist chart history with twenty top 10 singles, with which they broke the previous record of Madonna .<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] It was consecutive dance smash and alarm disk at Radio 538, something not previously occurred. There is also an official remix of We Found Love together with the American rapper Flo Rida. You Da One was released as the second single, but did not commercially much. Where Have You Been was the third international single from the album Talk That Talk. Other singles were Talk That Talk, Birthday Cake and Cockiness (Love It). Rihanna also appeared inOprah's Next Chapter. On 6 september 2012 she performed during the MTV Video Music Awards with Cockiness (Love It) and We Found Love. During the performance were both A $ AP ROCKY guest performers as Calvin Harris. Rihanna was one of the musical guests who was present at the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in 2012 where they the numbers We Found Love, Princess of China with Coldplay and "Run This Town" with Jay-Z performed. Princess of China, the duet with Coldplay, as the fourth single was their Mylo Xyloto released.

<p lang="en" len="123" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In February 2011, she released her own perfume, called Reb'L Fleur, a reference to the tattoo in her neck.

2012-present: Unapologetic
Rihanna during a performance of her Diamonds World Tour in 2013.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The seventh album Unapologetic worldwide came out on 19 november 2012. It came out in Netherlands on 20 november. The album was 238 thousand times sold in the United States in the first week, making that week was her best selling week in her career. She had never since Loud as many copies of an album in the first week that it released was sold.The album reached the number 1 position in the u.s. Billboard 200, making it her first number-one album in that country was.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  the album sold 15 thousand times In Flanders, making the album got gold status in that country. In total there were 2.3 million copies of Unapologetic sold in 2012, with which the number 8 in the list of the best selling albums by 2012 ended up.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]  In may 2013, there were 3 million copies sold of Unapologetic .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Diamonds, was on 26 september 2012 as first single released, its Unapologetic 's twelfth number-one single in the Billboard Hot 100. The song was the langstgenoteerde single of Rihanna in the Dutch charts and the Flemish Radio 2 Top 30, making it her biggest hit was in Netherlands and Flanders. The single was sold 7.5 million in may 2013, and became one of the best selling singles in times. On november 16, 2012, a remix of here was made in collaboration with Kanye West. The second single from the album Stay, was a collaboration with Mikky Ekko. In the Netherlands and Flanders the single reached top 3. The single was also a Alarm disc. In the United States was Pour It Up as the third single from the album released. The official remix with rap versions of T.I., Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Juicy J came out worldwide on 20 March via iTunes. In may, Right Now world-wide as the third (fourth in the United States) released. Earlier it was already known that Right Now would be the second single from the album, but eventually became the second singleStayanyway. Still got Right Now by high downloadantallen and radio airplay charts in various countries. It gained for the release all the top 50. Right Now Radio 538 dance smashwas elected on 18 to may 2013.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From 14 to 21 november toured Rihanna with the 777 Tour, with which they gave seven performances in seven days on seven different spots, followed by the Diamonds World Tour, which began on 8 March 2013. There are up to 14 november 86 concerts on the program. On 23 and 24 June 2013 joined Rihanna on Ziggo Domein the Amsterdam.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Of the 777 Tour was also a DVD made; This is titled 777-A Tour Documentary. It screened a documentary about Rihana's 777 Tour. It debuted at number 28 on 25 may 2013 in Dutch Music DVD Top 30.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 10 February 2013 were awarded the Grammy Awards, in which Rihanna won one award for Best Short Form Music Video (best video clip) for (We Found Love). This is her seventh Grammy. They also sang along with Mikky Ekko Stay behind a piano.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]

<p lang="en" len="114" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 3 June 2013 became the official remix of Bath Wale's released, with a Sung chorus by Rihanna.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">American presenter Ryan Seacrest reported in American Idol that Rihanna probably after her Diamonds World Tour a year look like will. "Seven hitalbums in seven years, sold-out concerts, but sources say they are at the end of the tour a year, to relax," said Seacrest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On August 29, came from What Now . On september 7, came across this in the Dutch tipparade.

Private Life
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On February 8, 2009, Rihanna with her then boyfriend Chris Brown perform at the Grammy Awards. Even before the show began, gave Brown joined the police for assaulting Rihanna. A bystander called 911. Fenty was taken to hospital with bruising and injuries. A picture of her injuries was posted on the Web site TMZ.com. Mid-april 2009, Fenty announced that they had made an end of the relationship. Rihanna and Chris Brown are back a few since October 2012.

Musical style and themes
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rihanna's style was on her first two albums with R & B and pop have influenced reggae . On her third album she's a totally different direction; influences from dance, electropop and rock. Rihanna's musical inspirations include Beyoncé and Mariah Carey. Her big Idol is Whitney Houston and she grew up with the music of Bob Marley.

<p lang="en" len="206" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 2010 Rihanna stepped over to Roc Nation Management and she started her own company, which means that her future music, film and fashion projects now fall under Rihanna Entertainment.

Film Roll
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rihanna also appeared in the comedy Bring It On: All or Nothing. It was released in April 2006 in the United States. Rihanna is also seen in the movie Battleship. That movie was released on May 18, 2012.

Prices
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rihanna was nominated for six Grammy Awardsin 2007: Record of the Year, Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (for Hate That I Love You), Best Dance Recording), Song of the Year, Best R & B Song. They won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Umbrella. Rihanna still won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording with Only Girl (in the World). She also won the Best Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song with "Run This Town" with Jay-Z and Kanye West.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2012 was Rihanna nominated for a VMAsix times, inter alia, for We Found Love, Take Care, Where Have You Been and Princess Of China. Eventually, she won the award for Video Of The Year by We Found Love. Rihanna is also nominated for an EMA six times by 2012.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As first artist Rihanna got two Alarm discs on Radio 538 in succession. (See list of Alarm drives in 2008)

Movies

 * 2006: Bring It On: All or Nothing
 * 2012: Battleship
 * 2013: This Is the End
 * 2014: Happy Smekday!

Television programs

 * 2006: Las Vegas (guest actress)
 * 2006: All My Children (guest actress)
 * 2006: My Super Sweet 16 (guest actress)
 * 2007: Once Upon a Prom (guest actress)

DVDs

 * 2008: Good Girl Gone Bad Live
 * 2012: Loud Tour
 * 2013: 777-A tour documentary

Tours

 * Rihanna Live in Concert Tour-2006
 * Good Girl Gone Bad Tour -2007-2009
 * Last Girl on Earth Tour -2010-2011
 * Loud Tour -2011
 * Diamonds World Tour -2013