With "Rated R" ready to hit stores and a troublesome year nearly behind her, Rihanna took some time out to hit back at outrage over her infamous barbed wire adorned cover and lack of clothing this week.
"I definitely thought the barbed wire was cool," Rihanna said at radio when speaking of the single cover for "Russian Roulette". "It was a symbol of strength but fearlessness all at once ...Read
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Rihanna's long anticipated album "Rated R" sprung a leak late last week and has been making its rounds around the net. Despite the leak being bad news for the "Russian Roulette" singer, reviews of the effort have been quite solid.
Featuring thirteen songs, Rihanna's "Rated R" has thus far been called everything from "dark" to "different". Overwhelmingly fans seem to like the majority of t ...Read
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Rihanna has officially earned her twelfth top 10 charting Billboard Hot 100 single with "Russian Roulette".
The lead single from "Rated R" reached no.9 on this week's chart after rocketing sixty-six spots (75-9) to arrive in the top 10.
Second only to Beyonce's 13 Hot 100 top 10 charting singles, Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" moved 132,000 digital copies over the last week, reports ...Read
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Rihanna is amped up for a show that will not only allow to her perform songs from "Rated R" for the first time, but for a worldwide audience via Nokia.
"It's a live stream worldwide, which means everyone can watch it at the same time all over the world, live, all at once, which is exciting," Rihanna confirmed earlier this week.
While the prospect of getting back on stage as a solo ac ...Read
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Now that the silence surrounding February's unfortunate turn of events has been broken, Rihanna feels better and perhaps free to move forward.
"It was the biggest weight lifted off my chest," she told MTV News Monday. "If you watch the interview(20/20), you see it was a subject that I didn't talk about for the eight months that I didn't talk about it, so that was my first real time openin ...Read
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Rihanna made strides by revealing intimate details surrounding her relationship with Chris Brown and even her family last week but, the "Russian Roulette" singer says she has no plans to become a spokesperson.
"I don't want to be the big domestic-violence spokesperson, because that doesn't define who I am," Rihanna told MTV this week. "But if I can help young women in any way, and that (d ...Read
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Rihanna's anticipated appearance on '20/20' paid off for ABC Friday.
According to recently revealed ratings, the exclusive interview was watched by some 8.2 million between 10pm and 11pm EST November 6.
The exclusive, which featured Rihanna speaking out for the first time on an abuse ridden childhood and 'incident' with Chris Brown, also ranked high amongst viewers between the ages ...Read
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During an anticipated airing of her 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer Rihanna stepped away from music and Chris Brown to discuss a childhood ridden with abuse.
Telling Sawyer she had witnessed regular abuse at the hands of her father, Rihanna admitted, like Brown, to being afraid as a child.
According to the singer, her father was severely abusive to her mother and hit her "numerous" ...Read
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Rihanna cleared up rumors that she has still been communicating with Chris Brown in a preview clip on today's Good Morning America.
Admitting that she finally broke things off with Chris Brown after several reunions, Rihanna told 20/20's Diane Sawyer "He didn't accept that very well".
While Rihanna has made the break up official, as revealed in the interview, the "Wait Your Turn (W ...Read
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