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2011 has been an amazing year for Rihanna! Make sure to check out part 2 of Rihanna’s 2011 Accomplishments (read part 1 here) and share it with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers:

• Obtained 10th Hot 100 #1 in “S&M”
• Obtained 11th Hot 100 #1 in “We Found Love”
• Obtained 21st Hot 100 Top 10 in “Take Care”
• Obtained 4th Trans-Atlantic #1 in “What’s My Name”
• Obtained 5th Trans-Atlantic #1 in “We Found Love” tieing Madonna for most.
• Obtained 9th Pop Songs Chart #1, Extending Lead In Chart’s History
• Obtained 19th Pop Songs Chart Top 10, Extending Lead In Chart’s History
• Sold approximately 6 Million Copies of “Loud” Worldwide
• “Talk That Talk” Opens To A Personal Best Of Over 500k #1 Worldwide
• Extends Lead Of Most Albums Sold Worldwide Post-Debut (2005-2011) with approximately 26 Million
• Awarded a Grammy Award (Dance Recording)
• Awarded a Billboard Award (Female Artist of the Year)
• Awarded a Brit (International Female Artist of the Year)
• Awarded a American Music Award (Favorite R&B Album)
• Awarded BET award (Best Female R&B Artist

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RiRi had some fun on the beach with friends and family in Barbados today (December 29).

In other news, Rihanna has confirmed that an extended version of “Birthday Cake” will be released in 2012.

UPDATE: More pictures have been added.

Don’t miss Glee’s “We Found Love” cover on January 17!

The annual Pollstar ranking of the concert industry’s top performing artists is out! Rihanna’s LOUD Tour is at No. 7 with:

Gross: 90.0 million
Average ticket price: 74.95
Average tickets: 15,395
Total tickets: 1,153,846
Average gross: 858,750
Cities shows: 78/99

Rihanna is behind U2, Take That, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Roger Waters and Elton John. Click here to see the full list.

The tour consisted of almost a hundred arena dates this year, including a record-breaking 10 sold-out London O2 dates due to demand, Rock In Rio headliner, and her first stadium concert in Barbados. The tour, featuring over two dozen of her biggest hits, was acclaimed by critics and applauded by fans.

Congratulations, RiRi!

The coronation of LMFAO’s “Sexy And I Know It” dethrones Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, after eight weeks at No. 1 — Rihanna’s longest Hot 100 command. “We Love Love,” now at No. 2 on the Hot 100, spends a sixth week in charge of Radio Songs (148 million), while slipping 2-3 on Digital Songs (276,000, up 86%).

“We Found Love” is #1 in the World Singles Top 40 for 7 weeks.

Rihanna’s 6th album “Talk That Talk” is up to No. 7 on Billboard 200, selling 99,000 copies last week and over 470,000 copies since its release in the United States. Worldwide, the album has sold over 1,4 million copies.

Click here to read more charts news.

After wrapping up the LOUD Tour, Rihanna flew to Barbados to celebrate Christmas with her family and get some well deserved rest.

On Tuesday (December 27), a lucky fan got the chance to take a photo with her. Rumour has it that she will stay in Barbados for New Year’s Eve.

Photos credit: Mister Fenty

• Rihanna, who recently reached 11 million Twitter followers, tweeted: “I’m gonna release “The Making of TTT” soon! I love it! The edit’s almost 100%….I think you’re gonna love it too. (…) Makin of TTT the album!Lol,not song. However Im not sure how soon ;)”

• MTV names Rihanna one of the hardest working pop stars of 2011: Three years, three albums: That’s the kind of frenetic rate that Rihanna has been working at since she left Chris Brown in 2009. Just this year alone, Rihanna has released six (!) singles: “S&M,” “California King Bed,” “Man Down,” “Cheers (Drink to That),” “We Found Love” and her latest single, “You Da One.” Rihanna also found time to guest on tracks by Kanye (“All of the Lights”), Nicki Minaj (“Fly”), Drake (“Take Care”) and more surprising artists like Coldplay (“Princess of China”) and the Lonely Island (“Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde”). We got tired just by typing all that out! Keep in mind that Rihanna cranked out all of that while also taking her Loud tour to over 20 countries for 100 dates. The amazing thing is that 2012 looks to be just as crazy, as she continues to promote Talk That Talk and preps for the release of her feature film debut, “Battleship.”

• Pop legend Cliff Richard wants to sing with Rihanna: Sir Cliff, 71 (we always forget this information and it surprises us everytime), has collaborated with stars such as Sir Elton John in the past, but said he really fancies warbling with a modern pop diva. Sir Cliff said: “Somebody asked me if I’d like to sing with Rihanna and I thought ‘Who wouldn’t?’ She looks fantastic, she’s got a great voice, but in the case of duets, if it’s feasible, it’s always a matter of what the song is. If we both like the song, that’s the best way to do a duet. I couldn’t just say, ‘yes, I’ll come’, and then sing some dance thing I don’t like.”

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We here at RihannaDaily would like to wish all of you, your family and friends a very Merry Christmas! Enjoy this special time and may all your dreams come true!!

The LOUD Tour is over!

Rihanna wrapped up her biggest tour to date tonight in London.

The tour consisted of almost a hundred arena dates this year, including a record-breaking 10 sold-out London O2 dates due to demand, Rock In Rio headliner, and her first stadium concert in Barbados. The tour, featuring over two dozen of her biggest hits, was acclaimed by critics and applauded by fans.

Since June 4, 2011, Rihanna has performed in the United States, Canada, Barbados, Finland, Norway, United Kingdom, Brazil, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Rihanna’s opening acts included J. Cole, B.o.B, Cee Lo Green and Calvin Harris. In a few shows she was joined by Drake, Jay-Z and Kanye West.

#LOUDtourMemories: Thousands of fans decided to share their memories today on Twitter. Check them out and share yours!

Click here to read more about the tour. Many backstage videos are also available on whosay.com/rihanna.

Rihanna Navy can’t wait to see you live again, RiRi!

It’s been a good run of concerts for Rihanna, who last night was awarded with a an award in recognition of breaking the record for the most sell-out dates at the venue by a female artist.

Rihanna will have performed to more than 170,000 fans over 10 nights, beating Britney Spears who packed houses over eight nights in June, 2009, during her Circus world tour.

Sally Davies, events director at The O2, said: ‘We at The O2 felt that this amazing record could not pass unrecognised and as Rihanna has spent so much of her time in London at our venue, we wanted to give her something to remember us by. We hope to see her here again very soon.’