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Rihanna Fenty born
February 20, 1988, known mononymously as Rihanna,
is a Barbadian recording artist and actress. Born inSaint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at age 16 to pursue a recording career
under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers. She subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings.
In 2005,
Rihanna released her debut studio album, Music of the Sun, which peaked in the
top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and
features the Billboard Hot 100 top five
hit single "Pon de Replay".
In less than a year, she released her second studio album, A Girl Like Me(2006), which peaked within the top-five in
the United States, and produced her first Hot 100 number one single, "SOS". Rihanna's
third studio album, Good Girl Gone Badreleased
in May 2007, spawned the international hit singles "Umbrella", "Don't Stop the Music", "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia", with an additional four
singles being released. The album was nominated for nine Grammy Awards, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for
"Umbrella". Her fourth studio album Rated R (2009),
produced the top-ten singles "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy", with the latter achieving
the number-one spot on theBillboard Hot
100. Loud (2010), Rihanna's fifth studio album,
spawned the number-one hits "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?" and "S&M". "We Found Love" served as the lead
single from Rihanna's sixth studio album, Talk That Talk (2011). The song was an international
success, topping the charts in more than twenty countries.
Rihanna's
work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including five American Music Awards,
eighteen Billboard Music Awards,
two BRIT Awards and six Grammy Awards. She has achieved a total of
eleven number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the youngest
solo artist to achieve the feat. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist
of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the seventeenth artist of the same
decade. She is the
highest-selling digital artist in US history, having sold 47,571,000 singles as
of 2012. Furthermore, she has also shipped 7.3
million album units in the United States as of September 2011. Some of her singles have earned their
place on the list of best-selling singles worldwide. Rihanna has sold more
than 25 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide since the beginning of
her career in 2005, which makes her one of the best selling artists of
all time. In June 2011, Forbes reported that Rihanna had earned $29
million between May 2010 and May 2011. In
2012, American magazine Time named
Rihanna one of the most influential people in the world. Rihanna was also
ranked the fourth most powerful celebrity in 2012 with earnings of $53 million
between May 2011 and May 2012, according to Forbes.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rihanna
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