Rihanna介绍

The album featured production from

Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken,

Stargate

and Poke & Tone.

Her debut

single,

highly across the world, peaking at number two on both the

Billboard

Hot 100

and the

UK Singles Chart

.

Her debut album,

Music of the Sun

,

was first released later that month and went on to sell over two

million copies worldwide and received a

Gold

certification by the

Recording Industry Association of America

(RIAA), denoting shipments

of over 500,000 units to retailers in the United States.

[29]

The album

received mixed reviews by music critics.

Rolling Stone

magazine gave

it 2.5 out of 5 stars and described as lacking the replay value,

ingenuity and rhythm of the single with

[28]

[27]

frills

[30]

Sal

Cinquemani of

Slant Magazine

described the album as a

R&B chanteuses

dancehall-pop mixture that owes plenty of its sweat and shimmy to

Beyoncé

's

Baby Boy

A second single,

Want

[31]

In October 2005,

Rihanna struck an endorsement deal with Secret Body Spray; her first

[32]

of many.

A month after the release of her debut album, she began working on

her second studio album.

[33]

The album contained production from Evan

Rogers, Carl Sturken, Stargate,

J. R. Rotem

and label-mate singer-

songwriter

Ne- Yo

.

A Girl Like Me

was released in April 2006, less

than eight months after its predecessor.

[35]

Its lead single,

SOS

was an international success following its March 2006 release as it

charted in the top five in

Canada

, the

Republic of Ireland

,

New

Zealand

and the

United Kingdom

and reached number one in the U.S. and

Aust ralia

.

[36]

Critical response to the album was mixed;

Rolling Stone

magazine commented

but superior follow-up doesn't deliver anything else as ingenious as

its lead single.

[37]

The album entered charts across the world,

peaking at number one in Canada and at number five in both the UK and

the U.S., where it sold 115,000 copies in its first week.

[29][38]

Unfaithful

territorie s, reaching number one in

Portugal

, Canada and

Switzerland

.

[39]

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We Ride

Break It Off

Sean Paul

,

were also released as singles.

Following the release of the album,

Rihanna embarked on her first headlining tour, the

Rihanna: Live in

Concert Tour

, as well as supporting

The Pussycat Dolls

on the

PCD

World Tour

and performing alongside Jay-Z and Ne-Yo on the

Rock Tha

Block Tour

. Rihanna created her Believe Foundation in 2006 to help

terminally ill children.

[42][43]

She also made her acting debut in a

cameo

role in the straight- to-DVD film

Bring It On: All or Nothing

,

which was released on August 8, 2006.

[44]

[34]

[27]

2007

–

09:

Good Girl Gone Bad

and subsequent re-release

Rihanna performing at the

Brisbane Entertainment Centre

in 2008

For her third studio album,

Good Girl Gone Bad

, Rihanna embraced a

new musical direction through uptempo dance tracks produced by the

likes of

Timbaland

,

and

Sean Garrett

.

[45][46]

First released in

May 2007, the album topped the charts in multiple countries including

the UK, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Russia and at number two in

the US and Australia.

[47]

The album received positive reviews by

critics, becoming the most critically acclaimed of her first three

albums.

The album's lead single,

Umbrella

thirteen countries and stayed at number one in the UK for ten

consecutive weeks; this made it the longest-running number one single

since

Wet Wet Wet

's single

Love Is All Around

at the top in 1994.

[49][50]

It became Rihanna's first single to be named

one of the

best-selling singles worldwide

, having sold over 6.6

million singles since being released.

The songs

Shut Up and

Drive

Hate That I Love You

Don't Stop The Music

released as singles from the album. In support of the album, she

kicked off her second headlining tour, the

Good Girl Gone Bad Tour

in

September 2007, with a total of 80 shows across the US, Canada and

Europe.

[53]

The same month, Rihanna became the official face of tourism

for Barbados and subsequently featured in many of their advertising

campaigns; she holds the honorary title of Ambassador for Culture and

Youth in Barbados.

The

50th Grammy Awards

saw Rihanna nominated for

a string of awards, winning for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for

[55]

Throughout 2008, Rihanna performed on the

Glow in the Dark Tour

alongside

Kanye West

,

Lupe Fiasco

and

N.E.R.D

.

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On February 20, 2008,

Barbadian Prime Minister

David Thompson

presented the singer with

several gifts at a national concert in an event named

Day

To help raise awareness and combat

HIV/AIDS

, Rihanna and

other public figures designed clothing for the February 2008

H&M

Fashion Against AIDS line.

[59][60]

Her third album's reissue,

Good Girl

[57][58]

[54]

[51][52 ]

[48]

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

reaching peak positions across the world.

[61][62][63]

In August 2008,

Rihanna and

Beyoncé Knowles

,

Mary J. Blige

,

Mariah Carey

and a host

of other female singers recorded the charity single,

Just Stand Up!

the theme song to the anti-cancer campaign

Stand Up to Cancer

.

Live Your Life

rapper

T.I.

, was first

released in November 2008 and peaked in the top five in

Austria

, the

Netherlands

, Canada, Ireland, the UK and Australia, reaching number

one in New Zealand and the U.S.

[65]

A remix album,

Good Girl Gone Bad:

[64]

The Remixes

, was released in January 2009.

Good Girl Gone Bad

has

shipped over 2.7 million units in the United States alone, receiving

a two-times-platinum certification from the RIAA and marking

Rihanna's best-selling album to date in the country.

[29][66]

Since its

release,

Good Girl Gone Bad

has sold over seven million copies

worldwide.

[67]

2009

–

10: Domestic violence case and

Rated R

Rihanna in

Paris

in April 2010

On February 8, 2009, Rihanna's scheduled performance at the

51st

Grammy Awards

was cancelled.

[68]

Reports later surfaced regarding an

altercation with then-boyfriend, singer

Chris Brown

, who was arrested

on suspicion of making criminal threats.

[69]

On March 5, 2009, Brown

was charged with assault and making criminal threats.

[70]

Due to a

leaked photograph from the

Los Angeles Police Department

obtained by

—

which revealed that Rihanna had sustained visible

injuries

—

an organization known as STOParazzi proposed a law called

enforcement agencies from releasing photos or information that

exploits crime victims.

[71]

Gil Kaufman of

VH1

reported the

coverage of the Rihanna/Brown case has brought up a number of issues

regarding the privacy of alleged victims of domestic violence,

including the decision by almost all major news outlets to divulge

the identity of the victim

—

which is not typically done in

domestic-violence cases

leaked photograph.

[72]

Rihanna was subpoenaed to testify during a

preliminary hearing in Los Angeles on June 22, 2009.

[73]

On June 22,

2009, Brown pled guilty to the felony assault. In exchange for his

plea Brown received five years probation and was ordered to stay

fifty yards away from Rihanna, unless at public events, which then

would be reduced to ten yards.

However, in February 2011, at the

request of Brown's lawyer, Judge Patricia Schnegg modified with

Rihanna's consent the restraining order to a

allowing both singers to appear at awards shows together in the

future.

[75][76]

Returning to music after the assault, Rihanna collaborated with Jay-Z

and Kanye West on

Run This Town

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[74]

Billboard

Hot 100, number one in the UK, and reached the top ten in

ten other countries after its July 2009 release.

[77]

Her fourth studio

album,

Rated R

, was released in November 2009.

[78]

Critical response

was favorable;

Rolling Stone

claimed that Rihanna

sound and made one of the best pop records of the year

[79]

The

album's lead single,

Russian Roulette

reaching number one in Norway and Switzerland and making the top ten

in sixteen other countries.

[80]

This was followed by the release of

H ard

Young Jeezy

and

Rude Boy

worldwide success from the album, topping the U.S.

Billboard

Hot 100

for six weeks, as well as claiming top ten positions in twenty-two

other countries.

[81][82]

Two other singles were released from

Rated R

;

Rockstar 101

Slash

and

Te Amo

[83][84]

Rated R: Remixed

was

released in the spring of 2010 and featured ten tracks from the album

remixed by

Chew Fu

.

To further promote the album, she embarked on

her second worldwide tour, the

Last Girl on Earth Tour

.

[86]

At the

52nd

Grammy Awards

,

Best Rap Song

' and 'Best Rap/Sung

[87 ]

Collaboration'.

[85]

2010

–

present:

Loud

,

Talk That Talk

, film debut and

Unapologetic

Rihanna performing on her

Loud Tour

During the summer of 2010, Rihanna collaborated with rapper

Eminem

on

Love the Way You Lie

number one in over twenty countries worldwide.

[88]

The song became

Rihanna's seventh U.S. number one of her career, making her the

female artist with the fifth-most number ones in the chart's

history.

Despite reaching number two, the song became the

biggest-

selling song of 2010 in the UK

, and the first Rihanna's singles to

sell over one million copies in the country.

[90][91]

With sales of over

nine million to date, it is one of the

best-selling singles worldwide

and Rihanna's biggest-selling single worldwide.

[92]

She also lent her

vocals to

All of the Lights

My

[89]

Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

, alongside

John Legend

,

The- Dream

,

Elly Jackson

,

Alicia Keys

,

Fergie

,

Kid Cudi

, and

Elton John

.

[93]

In October 2010, she released an

eponymous book

and announced that

she was parting ways with manager Marc Jordan and would henceforth be

managed by Jay-Z's

Roc Nation

.

The following month saw the

release of

Loud

, Rihanna's fifth studio album.

[96]

Its lead single,

Only Girl (In the World)

including Australia, Canada, the UK and US.

The album's second

single,

What's My Name?

Drake

, also reached number one

in both the U.S. and UK, making Rihanna the first female solo artist

to have five number one singles in the United Kingdom in consecutive

years.

[100]

The song reached number one on the U.S. Hot 100 before

history that an album's lead single reached number one after the

second.

[101]

S&M

Britney Spears

,

Man Down

California

King Bed

Cheers (Drink to That)

singles.

January 2011 saw the release of Rihanna's first fragrance;

Reb'l

Fleur

[105]

The following month,

award for 'Best Dance Recording' at the

53rd Grammy Awards

.

[106]

In

June 2011, Rihanna embarked on the

Loud Tour

and broke the record for

selling out ten nights at the

The O

2

Arena

in

London

, the most sold

out shows for a female artist in the venue's history.

In

October 2011,

Nicki Minaj

released the collaboration

Fly

Rihanna from her album

Pink Friday

which peaked within the top twenty

in both the US and UK.

Rihanna's sixth album,

Talk That Talk

,

was released in November 2011 in both deluxe and standard editions.

[112]

The lead single,

We Found Love

worldwide, peaking in the top ten in thirty countries and breaking a

string of records worldwide.

[113]

It topped the

Billboard

Hot 100

for

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