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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.

Rihanna matches her longest command of the Billboard Hot 100, as “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, spends a seventh week at No. 1. Good work Rihanna Navy!

She had previously led for seven frames with “Umbrella,” featuring Jay-Z, in 2007 and as a guest on Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” last year.

“Found” equals Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” – the year’s No. 1 Hot 100 song – for the chart’s longest rule this year.  “Found” extends its stay in the Hot 100′s penthouse by spending a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs with 146 million all-format audience impressions (up 2%), according to Nielsen BDS. On the Digital Songs chart, the track holds at No. 2 for a third frame, after five frames at No. 1, with 149,000 downloads sold (down 9%), according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album’s performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard’s “chart year” runs from the first week of December to the final week in November.

Artists Of The Year:
#2: Rihanna

Hot 100 Songs:
#12: “S&M”
#20: “What’s My Name?”
#40: “Only Girl (In The World)”
#69: “We Found Love”
#77: “Cheers (Drink To That)”

Billboard 200 Albums:
#9: “Loud”

Social 50 Artists
#3: Rihanna

Dance/Club Artists:
#3: Rihanna

Digital Songs Artists
#3: Rihanna

R&B/Hip-Hop Albums:
#3: Loud

Pop Songs Artists
#2: Rihanna

Radio Songs Artists
#3: Rihanna

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It’s official! Rihanna is the Queen of Facebook. The social networking site has revealed the most popular musicians on its platform by scoring them on how many ‘Likes’ they have, how fast their profiles are growing and their popularity in the media. Rihanna has become the most talked-about music artist on Facebook this year. Rihanna has also scored the ‘Most Listened to Songs’ top spot with her recent international chart-topper ‘We Found Love’.

Rihanna has topped the list after amassing over 47.6 million fans on the site, while Bob Marley trails in second place with Avril Lavigne in third.

David Guetta resides at four and Enrique Iglesias rounds off the top five. However, Lady GaGa sits at seven despite having over 45.5 million ‘Likes’.
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Rihanna registers a sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris.

“We Found Love” continues its Hot 100 dominance by spending a third week at No. 1 on Radio Songs with 143 million all-format audience impressions (up 3%), according to Nielsen BDS. On the Digital Songs chart, the track holds at No. 2 for a second frame, after five frames at No. 1, with 164,000 downloads sold (down 22%), according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Rihanna notches a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “We Found Love” (featuring Calvin Harris).

“We Found Love,” the lead single from Rihanna’s sixth studio album, “Talk That Talk,” spends a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs with 139 million all-format audience impressions, up 6%, according to Nielsen BDS. On the Digital Songs chart, the track dips to No. 2 after five frames at No. 1 (209,000 downloads sold, down 1%, according to Nielsen SoundScan).

Two additional tracks from “Talk That Talk” concurrently bow on the Hot 100: the title cut (featuring Jay-Z), the chart’s highest debut at No. 31 (73,000 downloads), and “Where Have You Been” at No. 65 (39,000).

Rihanna has become the first female artist to simultaneously top the UK singles and albums charts twice in a year.

The Bajan popstar achieved the feat after “We Found Love”, featuring Calvin Harris, won its sixth week at the head of the singles chart, while new album “Talk That Talk” has also gone straight to number one, selling over 160,000 copies in its first week of release.

Rihanna previously did the same in January, when “What’s My Name”, featuring Drake, and “Loud” topped the singles and albums chart respectively.

Rihanna also becomes the first solo female artist to rack up two UK number one albums in the same year, equalling the record of Michael Jackson, REM, Elton John, Blondie and Robbie Williams, and to have six number one singles in five consecutive years.

She also still currently holds the record for most weeks at number one in the UK singles chart in 2011 with seven, which is one week away from equalling the Spice Girls’ career total.

Rihanna tallies a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “We Found Love” (featuring Calvin Harris), while she makes history on the Digital Songs chart with a little help from friend Drake.

“We Found Love,” the lead single from Rihanna’s sixth studio album, “Talk That Talk,” released Monday (Nov. 21), spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with 211,000 downloads sold, down 6%, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Radio Songs, the track lifts 3-1 with 129 million all-format audience impressions, up 14%, according to Nielsen BDS, granting the title Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a fourth consecutive week.

“We Found Love” is Rihanna’s ninth No. 1 on Radio Songs, the second-best sum after Island Def Jam labelmate Mariah Carey‘s 11 dating to the chart’s inception 21 years ago.

It’s a historic week on Digital Songs for Rihanna, who becomes the first woman to chart three titles in the top 10 simultaneously, as two new tracks join “We Found Love” in the upper tier: Drake’s “Take Care,” on which she guests, arrives at No. 4 (162,000) and her own “You Da One” opens at No. 9 (124,000). No artist had placed as many entries in the chart’s top 10 since a record six songs by Michael Jackson, led by “Thriller” at No. 2, ranked in the region the week of July 11, 2009, following his passing.

On the Hot 100, “Take Care” storms in as the chart’s highest debut at No. 9 and “You Da One” vaults 73-14 in its second chart week.

Rihanna has reclaimed the Number One spot in the UK singles chart tonight (November 20) with her Calvin Harris collaboration ‘We Found Love’. This is the track’s 5th week on top!

Rihanna collects a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “We Found Love” (featuring Calvin Harris). “We Found Love,” the lead single from Rihanna’s sixth studio album, “Talk That Talk,” due Monday (Nov. 21), spends a third week at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with 227,000 downloads sold, down 4%, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Radio Songs, the dance track lifts 4-3 with 115 million all-format audience impressions, up 12%, according to Nielsen BDS.

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Further helping set up the album’s launch, second single “You Da One” debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 73 and Radio Songs at No. 28 with 38 million in first-week audience after the song was serviced to radio Friday (11).