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As you know, Rihanna performed Bob Marley’s Redemption Song on Oprah yesterday. The song is available for charitable purchase through iTunes for a limited time. Proceeds will benefit Hope for Haiti Now. Download the song here – only for US citizens. If you’re not from the US, visit our forum to listen to it.

Right now, the song is #14 on iTunes, let’s make it top 10!

In other news, Russian Roulette has been certified worldwide platinum for sales of +2 million in 10 weeks. Congratulations, RiRi! Thanks, RihannaTroops.

Rihanna says she will perform a new song called “Stranded” with rapper Jay-Z and U2′s The Edge and Bono at Friday’s “Hope for Haiti” telethon in London.

During the taping of a Norwegian talk show in Oslo on Thursday, the R&B superstar said she feels drawn to the cause because of Haiti’s proximity to her home country of Barbados.

“In the Caribbean, we think of ourselves as one big family, one country,” Rihanna told the host of the show, Fredrik Skavlan. “We’re all together. We all represent each other.”

She said she felt “great sadness” when thinking about the humanitarian disaster that struck Haiti following a Jan. 12 earthquake.

“It’s like it happened to Barbados,” she said.

“Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” will be an international event. Haitian native Wyclef Jean will anchor the show from New York, while George Clooney will do so from Los Angeles. Coldplay is also to perform from London.

The funds raised from the benefit will be donated to several relief organizations, including UNICEF, Oxfam America and Partners in Health.

Rihanna has just performed at Oprah show dedicated to earthquake in Haiti. Remember that for the next 48 hours you can download from iTunes a special version of “Redemption Song” by Rihanna. Proceeds will benefit Hope for Haiti Now. Download the song here – only for US citizens.

UPDATE: Watch the performance below:

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As we reported yesterday, Rihanna is going to perform Bob Marley’s Redemption Song on Oprah today.

The song is available for charitable purchase through iTunes for a limited time. Proceeds will benefit Hope for Haiti Now. Download the song here – only for US citizens. If you’re not from the US, visit our forum to listen to it.

Back in 2006, Rihanna used to perform Redemption Song while on tour. Click read more to watch a beautiful performance of the song in Portugal.

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Justin Timberlake, Rihanna and Christina Aguilera are among the music stars set to perform at Friday’s Hope for Haiti Now telethon for earthquake relief.

The two-hour event will air on several networks at 8 p.m. ET, hosted by George Clooney in Los Angeles, Wyclef Jean in New York and CNN’s Anderson Cooper in Haiti.

Sting will be joined in New York by Bruce Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Shakira.

Timberlake and Aguilera will take the stage in Los Angeles, along with Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift and a group performance by Keith Urban, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow.

In London, the lineup includes Rihanna, Bono, Coldplay, Jay-Z and The Edge.

Source: PEOPLE.com

We’re proud of you, RiRi!

The horrible earthquake in Haiti has put out a worldwide call for action and aid. There are numerous reputable charities working to get aid to the devastated country, while disaster relief teams from the US and elsewhere on their way, and others already in place.

Musician Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti has set up a texting donation program; by texting “Yele” to 501501 you can donate $5 or visit www.Yele.org and click “Donate.” Jean told The Insider

Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced. I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is, and idle hands will only make this tragedy worse. The over 2 million people in Port-au-Prince tonight face catastrophe alone. We must act now.

Unik Ernest, a New York nightlife entrepreneur whose whose Edeyo Foundation has built a school and provides meals, books and libraries for children in Port Au Prince told Tonic.com that his famous friends like Mark Wahlbergand Tommy Hilfiger

called him and offered “to support any initiative (Edeyo is) planning at this moment,”

Ernest also claims he’s planning a telethon and a benefit concert

tentatively scheduled for the first two weeks of February. Celebrities he says will be involved include: Rihanna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, Usher, John Legend, Mariah Carey, Jamie Foxx, Wyclef Jean, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Kerri Washington, Susan Sarandon and others.

I’ll take a wait and see on that. That energy, effort and money for setting up a concert and telethon could go directly to charities like Save the Children, Unicef, and The Red Cross which also has a texting program in place– you can donate $10 to help rescue Haitians by texting the word HAITI to 90999 — and a $10 charge will show up on your phone bill.

Rihanna Daily has already donated, now it’s your turn!

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Rihanna and Grey’s Anatomy star Justin Chambers are stepping up to help a 26-year-old winter Olympic hopeful find a life-saving donor match. Seun Adebiyi, a Nigerian Yale Law School Graduate was training for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games when he was diagnosed with Leukemia.

When Rihanna, who made a public plea last year to help 6-year-old Jasmina Anema find a match, received a letter from Seun, she was so moved by his plight that she joined his mission to recruit 10,000 donors with DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center.

“Leukemia interrupted Seun’s dream of being the first Nigerian in the Winter Olympics. But together we can help him make his dream come true! We need to find him a bone marrow donor! Please sign up with DKMS,” said Rihanna.

Source: JustJared.com

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Remember this list? TheDailyBeast reports:

#7: Rihanna

Charity: UNICEF
Annual Impact: $2,305,743

The Barbadian singer who became ubiquitous for her summer smash “Umbrella” in 2007 quickly became a pop star and fashion world muse. All the better for UNICEF, the international children’s aid organization which tapped the musical wonder girl to be the face of its first campaign highlighting its collaboration with Gucci in 2008. The campaign became something of a viral hit, generating more than 1 million results on the Internet. Previously Rihanna had performed at one of UNICEF’s fundraisers, which culminated in $5.5 million in donations. “We have a celebrity, a very famous face, together with the entire organization of UNICEF and Gucci,” said Gucci’s creative director. “With those three elements together, we want to surprise people, to impact people’s hearts.” Rihanna also created The Believe Foundation in 2006 to help needy children.

Breakdown: TV ($738,243), Print ($507,500), Internet ($1,060,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)

Justin Timberlake has beaten tireless campaigners Bono and Madonna to top a new list of celebrity philanthropists.
The SexyBack singer’s continued work for the Shriners Hospital for Children has an annual impact of more than $9 million (£5.6 million), a figure that dwarfs Madonna’s $5.5 million (£3.4 million) for Raising Malawi and Pamela Anderson’s $4.8 million (£3 million) for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s work for her personal charity, Oprah’s Angel Network, netted almost $4 million (£2.5 million), while U2 frontman Bono’s annual impact on the ONE Foundation was estimated at $3.6 million (£2.25 million).
Angelina Jolie, Rihanna, George Clooney, Salma Hayek and Shakira also made it into the top 10.

Thnx Laura for the news