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Manchester Arena and O2 Arena, the two largest indoor arenas in the U.K., dominate this week’s Hot Tours rankings with concert box office totals reported from the final quarter of 2011.  Eight of the 10 top-grossing tours in this week’s tally are based on the reported grosses from these two arenas.

Rihanna is No. 1 with ticket sales revenue from the final European leg of her Loud Tour that began in June 2011 and wrapped in December.  Included in her reported totals are seven headlining performances at O2 Arena during the final two months of 2011 (Nov. 13-15, Dec. 1, 20-22).  More than 116,000 fans attended the seven London shows with tickets sales totaling £5.3 million ($8.5 US$).  The Manchester Arena also reported three Rihanna concerts, adding £2 million ($3.1 US$) to the native Barbadian’s $12.6 million combined box office gross that lands her this week’s top ranking. In addition to these two U.K. arenas, the 15,000-seat O2 World in Hamburg, Germany also reported ticket sales from its Loud Tour performance on Dec. 4 that drew a sellout crowd of 13,409.

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According to the british Official Charts Company, Rihanna not only has three top selling R&B/Hip Hop Singles of 2011 in UK but also the year’s best selling R&B/Hip Hop albums overall.

While Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull narrowly pip Rihanna’s ‘S&M’ at the post to claim the biggest selling R&B / hip hop track with ‘On The Floor’, RiRi is sitting pretty with the two biggest selling R&B / hip hop albums of the last twelve months with 2010’s ‘Loud’, and last year’s ‘Talk That Talk’, occupying the Number 1 and Number 2 slots, respectively. Flop who?  #UKNavy goes hard!!

The full Top 20s are as follows:

Top 20 R&B / hip hop albums of 2011
01 LOUD – RIHANNA
02 TALK THAT TALK – RIHANNA

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Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, remains atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a milestone 10th total week at the summit.

The song, which already represents Rihanna’s longest stay at No. 1 on the Hot 100, becomes one of just 11 boasting a solo female lead billing to have ruled for at least 10 weeks in the tally’s 53-year history. “We Found Love” is the first such leader since Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” logged 10 weeks on top in 2006-07.

Here is the complete list of songs by women to achieve strangleholds of at least 10 frames on the Hot 100 (including two tracks in which other acts share lead credit and one in which two women trade lead vocals):

Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Peak Year
16, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995 (*the longest reign of any title in the chart’s history)
14, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
14, “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston, 1992
13, “The Boy Is Mine,” Brandy & Monica, 1998
11, “I’ll Be Missing You,” Puff Daddy & Faith Evans featuring 112, 1997
11, “Un-Break My Heart,” Toni Braxton, 1996
10, “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, 2011 (to-date)
10, “Irreplaceable,” Beyonce, 2006
10, “Foolish,” Ashanti, 2002
10, “Physical,” Olivia Newton-John, 1981
10, “You Light Up My Life,” Debby Boone, 1977

“We FoundLove” maintains its Hot 100 dominance by spending a ninth week atop Radio Songs (150 million audience impressions, down 1%, according to Nielsen BDS), while slipping 4-6 on Digital Songs (140,000 downloads sold, down 24%, according to Nielsen SoundScan).

UPDATE: Rihanna tweeted:

“10 weeks at #1??? Yall are SO good to me, Im giggling rt now! God is #MAJAH always! My fans run dis world!!! Thank u for the LOVE! #WFL”

Rihanna’s mega-hit “We Found Love” keeps taking over the world. It is the most popular song worldwide for the 10th week!

Congratulations, Rihanna!

After a two-week respite, Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, returns to the Billboard Hot 100 summit (2-1) for a ninth total week in charge.

The song, which already represents Rihanna’s longest residence at No. 1 on the Hot 100, matches Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” in early 2010 for the longest time tallied atop the Hot 100 for any song since the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” racked 14 weeks on top in summer 2009.

On Radio Songs, “We Found Love” rules for an eighth week (152 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS), granting Rihanna her longest reign on the list as a lead act, besting the seven-week domination of her “What’s My Name?,” featuring Drake, early last year. She also ties her longest stranglehold atop the chart overall, having spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs as a guest on T.I.’s “Live Your Life” in 2008-09 and Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” in 2010.

On Digital Songs, “We Found Love” descends 2-4 with 185,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

• “We Found Love” extends its reign as Rihanna’s longest-leading Billboard Pop Songs No. 1, as the song, featuring Calvin Harris, rules for a sixth frame. That’s twice the total of her three previous longest commands: “Take a Bow” and “Disturbia,” which led for three weeks apiece in 2008, and “Only Girl (In the World)” (three, 2010). Rihanna concurrently debuts on Pop Songs at No. 39 as a guest on Coldplay’s “Princess of China.” The entrance of “Princess Of China” queens Rihanna as the sole artist with the most Pop Songs entries since the Nielsen BDS-based list launched the week of Oct. 3, 1992. Now with 30 visits, she passes Island Def Jam labelmate Mariah Carey (29) for first place.  

• Rihanna was one of the first celebrities to congratulate Beyoncé and Jay-Z on their first child, a girl named Blue Ivy Carter. She tweeted: “Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih”

• RiRi got  a new Jeep from Roc Nation, click here to see a picture. Hopefully she will have her U.S. driver licence soon.

• Rihanna is featured on the new GRAMMY Awards promotional video. Don’t forget that Rihanna is nominated for 4 awards. It’s still unkwon if she will be at the show on February 12.

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.

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With an eighth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 for “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, Rihanna links her longest command of the list.

The song’s reign bests the seven-week rules of two of her prior leaders: 2007′s “Umbrella,” featuring Jay-Z, and last year’s “Love the Way You Lie,” on which she assisted Eminem.

“Found” also takes over as the longest-leading No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year (just beating the buzzer, as this week’s Billboard charts are dated Dec. 31, 2011). The song had been tied with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” – the year’s No. 1 Hot 100 song – for the chart’s longest penthouse residence this year.

“Found” remains at No. 1 on the Hot 100 by logging a fifth week atop Radio Songs with 148 million all-format audience impressions (up 1%), according to Nielsen BDS. On Digital Songs, the track holds at No. 2 for a fourth frame, after five weeks at No. 1, with 149,000 downloads sold (down less than 1%), according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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Rihanna’s new album “Talk That Talk” has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide just 3 weeks after its release!

Week 1: 504,000
Week 2: 282,000
Week 3: 249,000
Total: 1,035,000

Congratulations, Rihanna! Great job, Rihanna Navy!

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New sales data from the Official Charts Company reveals that Rihanna has overtaken Adele to become the UK’s biggest singles artist of 2011.

Based on all sales year to date, Rihanna has sold 3,119,000 tracks in the UK while Adele has sold 3113,000. Rihanna overtook Adele last month to become the artist who has spent the most week’s at the top of the Official Singles Chart in 2011 when her track ‘We Found Love’, Ft Calvin Harris, gave the Barbadian singer her then collective sixth week at Number 1 compared to Adele’s five.

‘We Found Love’, from her current album ‘Talk That Talk’ is RiRi’s biggest selling single this year, clocking up over 771,000 sales, making it the eighth biggest selling single of 2011 so far, while tracks such as ‘S&M’ (633,000) and ‘What’s My Name’ (343,000), which are taken from her 2010 album, ‘Loud’, have continued to sell well this year.