rihanna

 

  • After signing with Def Jam in 2005, she soon gained recognition with the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of
    which were influenced by Caribbean music and peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart.

  • The album had Rolling Stone magazine stating that Rihanna “transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year”.

  • It became her second US number one album and featured the chart-topping single “Work”.

  • [133] Two further singles followed its release: “Bitch Better Have My Money” and “American Oxygen”;[134][135][136] neither made the final track listing for Rihanna’s eighth
    studio album.

  • [63] Her third studio album’s reissue, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, was released in June 2008 with three new songs: “Disturbia”, “Take a Bow” and the Maroon 5 duet “If I
    Never See Your Face Again”, plus a Spanglish version of “Hate That I Love You” featuring Spanish pop singer David Bisbal.

  • In support of the album, Rihanna began the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour in September 2007, with 80 shows across the US, Canada, and Europe.

  • [57] On June 9, 2008, Rihanna released Good Girl Gone Bad Live, her first live long-form video.

  • Around that time, Rihanna had already begun work on her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad.

  • [54][55] The songs “Shut Up and Drive”, “Hate That I Love You” (featuring Ne-Yo), and “Don’t Stop the Music” were also released as singles, with the latter becoming an international
    hit.

  • The song appeared on J-Status’ debut album The Beginning, released in several European countries only.

  • [36] Aside from her work in music, Rihanna made her acting debut in a cameo role in the successful straight-to-DVD film Bring It On: All or Nothing, released in August 2006.

  • By late 2008, Rihanna still remained on the charts with the release of the fifth single from Good Girl Gone Bad, “Rehab”, and was named “Diva of the Year” by Entertainment
    Weekly for her “newfound staying power”.

  • It is Rihanna’s best-selling album in the country to date.

  • [51] Rihanna performing during Good Girl Gone Bad Tour in Brisbane, 2008 The lead single, “Umbrella”, topped the charts in 13 countries and remained at No.

  • [15] Without a name or any material, the girl group auditioned with American record producer Evan Rogers, who commented, “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like
    the other two girls didn’t exist.

  • [15] Rihanna takes influence from the different types of music she discovered when she came to America and revealed that rock music was one of the first genres she fell in
    love with.

  • [142] The album was supported by the release of four singles, including the lead single “Work”, featuring Drake, which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

  • [117] In September 2012, “We Found Love” won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, making Rihanna the first woman to receive the accolade more than once.

  • [161] She was next featured on Canadian singer PartyNextDoor’s song “Believe It”, which was released on March 27, 2020.

  • Rihanna’s third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporated elements of dance-pop and established her status as a sex symbol in the music industry.

  • [99] To promote the album, Rihanna embarked on her Loud Tour in June 2011, which sold out 10 nights at The O2 Arena in West London, the most sold-out shows for a female artist
    in the venue’s history.

  • [83] Reaching number 2, the song became the biggest-selling song of 2010 in the UK and the first of Rihanna’s singles to sell over a million copies in the country.

  • With sales of over 250 million records worldwide, Rihanna is the second-best-selling female music artist of all time.

  • [15] She cited Brandy’s fourth studio album, Afrodisiac (2004), as her main inspiration for her third album, Good Girl Go

  • [115][116] March 2012 saw the simultaneous releases of two collaborations between Rihanna and Chris Brown: remixes of her song “Birthday Cake” and his “Turn Up the Music”.

  • [78][79][80] The album was supported by six singles, including “Rude Boy”, which was the biggest worldwide success from the album, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 for six
    weeks and reaching top 10 positions in 22 other countries.

  • [109] “You Da One” and the album’s title track, featuring Jay-Z, were released as the second and third singles, to moderate success.

  • [151][152] In November 2017, Rihanna was part of N.E.R.D’s comeback single “Lemon” from the band’s album No One Ever Really Dies.

  • [31] With several songs to pick as a lead single, “Pon de Replay” was chosen because it seemed like the best song suited for a summer release.

  • “[189] Another major influence on Rihanna’s music and career has been Mariah Carey, whose song “Hero” she performed when Rihanna was still a teenager at her high school talent
    show.

  • She continued to mix pop, dance, and R&B genres on her next studio albums, Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012), the latter of which
    became her first Billboard 200 number one.

  • [37] A month after the release of her debut album, Rihanna began working on her second studio album.

  • First she was the featured part in Future’s “Selfish”, the lead single from the rapper’s sixth studio album, Hndrxx.

  • [172] When she first came to the US, she was exposed to different types of music with “rock being one of them, and I fell in love with it.

  • Rihanna performing during the Loud Tour in 2011 In summer 2010, Rihanna collaborated with rapper Eminem on “Love the Way You Lie”, which was a major worldwide success, reaching
    No.

  • [28][173] Her early dancehall roots can be found on her debut album, Music of the Sun, and its follow-up, A Girl like Me.

  • “Pon de Replay” and “The Last Time” were two tracks recorded for the demo tape, which were eventually included on her debut album Music of the Sun.

  • [132] A year after Rihanna began working on her eighth studio album, the single “FourFiveSeconds” was released, which featured Rihanna paired up with Kanye West and Paul McCartney.

  • [112] Rihanna performing during the Diamonds World Tour in 2013 In early 2012, two collaborations featuring Rihanna were released: Coldplay’s “Princess of China”, from their
    album Mylo Xyloto, and Drake’s “Take Care”, from his album of the same name.

  • [178] During a review for Good Girl Gone Bad, Slant Magazine to write that Rihanna “finally figured out that she’s a dance artist and the majority of the album is comprised
    of uptempo dance-pop [songs like]” “Push Up on Me” and “Don’t Stop the Music”.

  • [107][108] The song was later named the 24th biggest hit of all time on the Billboard Hot 100.

  • “[131] In May 2014, Rihanna left Def Jam Recordings to sign fully with Roc Nation, the record label that had managed her career since October 2010.

  • [24] Impressed, Rogers scheduled a second meeting with Rihanna’s mother present and then invited Rihanna to his hometown in the United States to record some demo tapes that
    could be sent to record labels.

  • [23] Music career 2003–2006: Beginnings and early releases In 2003, Rihanna formed a musical trio with two of her classmates in her home country of Barbados.

  • [72] A few months after the incident, Rihanna was featured on the single “Run This Town” by Jay-Z, which also featured Kanye West and was released as the second single from
    Jay-Z’s eleventh studio album The Blueprint 3.

  • Rihanna’s musical career has been an experiment with new musical ideas and stated that she wants “to make music that could be heard in parts of the world that I’d never been
    to”.

  • The DVD and Blu-ray release featured Rihanna’s concert at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom, held on December 6, 2007, as part of the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour.

  • [164][165][166] While recording tracks for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rihanna took vocal lessons from Ne-Yo.

  • [121] The album’s second single, “Stay”, featuring Mikky Ekko, reached the top five in over twenty countries, including No.

  • [96] “Man Down” and “California King Bed” were released as singles in May 2011 with moderate success.

  • [190] She revealed that Carey’s song “Vision of Love” “was the song that made [her] want to do music.

  • “, from the album One More Love (2010).

  • [45][46] 2007–2008: Breakthrough with Good Girl Gone Bad In early 2007, Rihanna appeared on the single “Roll It” with Jamaican band J-Status and fellow Barbadian singer-songwriter
    Shontelle.

  • [43] “Unfaithful”, the album’s second single, reached the top 10 in 18 countries, including No.

  • [30] Rihanna performing at the KIIS-FM Jingle Ball, December 2005 After signing with Def Jam, Jay-Z and his team did the A&R for Rihanna’s debut album and spent the next three
    months recording and completing her debut album.

  • [90] The album produced three US Billboard Hot 100s.

  • [193] She stated, “He’s one of my favourite artists of all time – he really paved the way for every other artist out of the Caribbean”.

  • [153][154] 2018–present: Hiatus and upcoming ninth studio album In October 2017, Shakka revealed that he was working with Rihanna on her “absolutely insane” album.

  • [179] It represents a departure from the Caribbean sound of her previous albums and is described as a turning point in her career.

  • [52][53] It was Rihanna’s first single to be named one of the best-selling singles worldwide, with sales of over 8 million copies.

  • 2014–2017: Standalone releases, Home soundtrack and Anti In 2014, Rihanna appeared on Shakira’s single, “Can’t Remember to Forget You”.

  • [30] She also stated that one of the first songs she remembers falling in love with was Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” and that it “was really inspiring, and
    it made me develop a passion for music, so really, she’s partly responsible for me being here in this industry.

  • [130] Following the release of Unapologetic and its accompanying tour, Rihanna aimed to take a hiatus from recording music, stating: “I wanted to have a year to just do whatever
    I want artistically, creatively.

  • [123] On May 6, 2013, Fox aired a documentary about the tour, with a documentary DVD being released the following day as Rihanna’s third live long-form video release.

  • [137] Rihanna performing on the Anti World Tour in 2016 In late 2015, Rihanna inked a $25 million contract with Samsung that would see her promoting Samsung’s Galaxy line
    of products whilst Samsung would sponsor the release of her eighth studio album and its supporting tour.

  • [186] She also branched out into house music with tracks like “We Found Love”, “Only Girl (In the World)” and “Complicated”.

  • 1 in the UK[105] The album’s lead single, “We Found Love”, topped charts in twenty-seven countries and peaked in the top 10 in 30 countries and broke many chart records worldwide.

  • Summer 2017 saw the release of Rihanna’s collaborations with record producer DJ Khaled, “Wild Thoughts”, which also featured Bryson Tiller and was a worldwide success, and
    Kendrick Lamar’s single, “Loyalty”, which earned Rihanna her ninth Grammy Award at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.

  • [24][28] At the audition, she sang Whitney Houston’s cover of “For the Love of You”, as well as the demo tracks “Pon de Replay” and “The Last Time”.

  • The albums spawned a string of chart-topping singles, including “Rude Boy”, “Only Girl (In the World)”, “What’s My Name?

  • [195][196] During her childhood, she would go around singing Whitney Houston songs and “A Whole New World” into her hairbrush so much that her neighbors started calling her
    “Robyn Redbreast”.

  • [56] Rihanna was nominated for several 2008 Grammy Awards for Good Girl Gone Bad, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella” alongside Jay-Z, her first Grammy Award.

  • [124] In February 2013, at the 55th Grammy Awards, Rihanna won her sixth Grammy Award, in the category Best Short Form Music Video for “We Found Love” (2011).

 

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