Rihanna’s iPod Songs List
Rihanna knows a pop hit when she hears one—just check the Billboard charts. So what is the sexy songstress listening to these days? iTunes got a peek at her playlist, which includes a couple songs from her “bro” Jay-Z, a guilty pleasure by a teen sensation, and a newcomer’s mixtape smash that she considers one of the best hip-hop songs of the past decade.
1. “Best I Ever Had” – Drake
2. “Closer” – Kings of Leon
3. “Young Forever” – Jay-Z feat. Mr Hudson
4. “Venus vs. Mars” – Jay-Z
5. “Meet Me Halfway” – Black Eyed Peas
6. “La La La” – LMFAO
7. “Throw It in the Bag (Remix)” – Fabolous feat. Drake and The-Dream
8. “Party in the U.S.A.” – Miley Cyrus
9. “Thinking of You” – Katy Perry
10. “Umbrella” – Rihanna feat. Jay-Z
11. “Russian Roulette” – Rihanna
12. “Sweet Dreams” – Beyoncé
13. “Waiting on the World to Change” – John Mayer
If you didn’t know, Rihanna has a purple iPod, I couldn’t find the photo where she is at a airport with it! But if you want to, you can buy an iPod with a “Rated R” R logo on it!
Rap-Up
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Rihanna Shares Her First Concert Experience
The 21-year-old singer shared her first concert experience with iTunes.
“My very first arena concert was Beyoncé/Alicia Keys/Missy Elliott [in 2004]. I think it was the ‘Ladies First’ tour,”
she said.
Despite her bad seats, she will always remember that special night.
“I was in like a nosebleed seat, but I was in tears. I could not believe that Beyoncé was right there, and Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott.”
Rihanna was in awe of the artists she now considers her peers.
“I was a little starstruck. No, I was very starstruck, but it was so much fun. It was very inspiring and it motivated me so much.”
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UK Charts Update – January 24, 2010
The UK Charts have just been updated, and all of Rihanna’s singles and albums have gone up except ‘Russian Roulette’ which has fallen from #19 to #25. However, on the UK Singles Chart, ‘Hard’ is up from #55 to #42! If it jumps 2 more places, it will be in the top 40! Also, ‘Rude Boy’ has debuted at #52 on downloads alone! In the R&B Chart, ‘Hard’ has gone up to #14 from #17 and ‘Rude Boy’ has debuted at #19. The album, ‘Rated R’ has risen to #30, last week it was #34. On the R&B Chart it is back up to #4 which is its previous peak!
Congratulations Rihanna!
REMEMBER: KEEP BUYING THE ALBUM AND REQUESTING THE SINGLES!
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HQ Candids – Jan 23rd/24th
Rihanna looks cute in a gray fur hat while arriving to Cannes airport in France on saturday. Today she left France with Will.I.am. She is now rumored to be in LA.
Jan 23rd
Jan 24th
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‘Hope For Haiti Now’ Album Number 1 on iTunes!
The ‘Hope For Haiti Now’ album is currently number 1 on iTunes in the UK! It is ahead Florence + The Machine, Justin Bieber and Paolo Nutini. The album features live performances from the biggest stars including Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Alecia Keys and Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge & Rihanna. The album includes the live performance and the studio version of ‘Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)’.
Keep buying the single and the album!
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Rihanna Performes Russian Roulette On NRJ
Update - Rihanna danced backstage while the Black Eyed Peas performed!
Update – Rihanna was backstage with Mika
Update – Rihanna won the award “International Female Artist Of The Year”! CONGRATS RIHANNA!The audience were screaming Rihanna Rihanna Rihanna!
Update - Rihanna Walking On The Red Carpet [Rihanna-Diva]
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First Photo Of Rihanna at NRJ Music AWards Red Carpet
UPDATE – 
UPDATE - Head over to the gallery to see 3 HQ photos!
Rihanna looks amaaaaaaaaaazing!! More Coming! Watch LIVE!
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Rihanna Is In France [Cannes]
Rihanna has now arrived to France [Cannes] for the NRJ Music Awards!
Her backup-singer Ashleigh tweets:
“leaving my hotel in about an hour to sing on the NRJ awards in Cannes with Miss Rihanna”
Stay tuned for photos and videos!
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“Stranded” [Haiti Mon Amour] #1 on iTunes
Rihanna, Jay-Z and Bono are already #1 on iTunes with “Stranded” [Haiti Mon Amour]! Keep buying the song and support Haiti, the songs cost’s only $0.99!
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‘Hope For Haiti Now’ Backstage Interview
LONDON — At precisely 10:30 p.m. here in London — two and a half hours before the start of Friday night’s (January 22) “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon — Rihanna was finally in the same room as Jay-Z, Bono and The Edge, her three collaborators on “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour),” the song they had recorded just three days earlier in studios all around the world.
The four, backed by Jay’s cracking live band and a full gospel choir, were about to perform the song together for the first time, in front of a studio of television producers and, really, the entire world. But not a single one of them was nervous. Rather, they saw it as a tremendous opportunity — not just to help the victims of last week’s devastating earthquake, but to remind them that they will never be left stranded, not even after the TV cameras leave and the focus of the globe shifts elsewhere.
“I got the call three days ago to be a part of this. Bono and Jay-Z called me up, they wanted me to be a part of it, and, of course, anything that can help Haiti, I want to be a part of,” Rihanna told MTV News on Friday night. “This song is really important. Lyrically, Jay-Z gets really, really deep in his verses, more than I’ve ever heard him get. He gets really real. I know a couple of people he’s singing about. We have mutual friends that suffered loss, they lost their family, they lost friends, and it really hits home. So this is really a song for Haiti, letting them know we are not going to leave you stranded; we are going to do every last thing to help you. You are not alone.”
Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke — just more proof of how deeply this tragedy has affected her. Like she said earlier in the week on “Oprah,” where she performed a haunting version of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song,” she’s from the Caribbean nation of Barbados. It’s not a stretch to say the footage coming out of Haiti hit her close to home.
“When I first heard about it, I was at home, and I kind of didn’t believe it. I was in such shock. An earthquake in Haiti was shocking to begin with. And [one of] that extent; a 7.0, that’s huge, that’s unheard of,” she said. “And being from the Caribbean, I was in shock for a long time. And when I started looking at the pictures, at the footage, seeing that little boy get beaten up for food, seeing people trapped under the rubble, kids not knowing where their parents are, bodies just getting dropped outside of the hospitals, that just made it really real.
“It made me want to do something about it, I wanted to help, because we all have to help,” she continued. “And now my role is to encourage more people to help, to join with me to help.”
MTV
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