“Pour It Up” has recently become Rihanna’s 28th song (including collaborations) to go Platinum in the United States. The track has also peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her 33rd Top 20 hit.
“Pour It Up” has recently become Rihanna’s 28th song (including collaborations) to go Platinum in the United States. The track has also peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her 33rd Top 20 hit.
Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette” music video has recently become her 12th VEVO Certified video (with over 100 million views), making Rihanna the artist with the most VEVO Certified videos. But we can do it even better! One of Rihanna’s biggest hits ever, “Umbrella,” is missing only 5 million from getting a VEVO certification! The video was released back when VEVO didn’t exist and obviously it has less views than the newer clips. Together we can pass that number – just watch the video!
“You Da One” is even closer with over 97 million views!
Check all of Rihanna’s VEVO Certified music videos here. Let’s do this!
Rihanna’s “Stay” music video, released only two months ago, has just reached 100 million views, whch means it’s now VEVO Certified. Click here to watch them all.
There are over 3.5 billion views and 7.6 million subscribers on RihannaVEVO’s channel.
Rihanna’s “Stay” music video premiered last night on E! News and it’s now available on her VEVO channel, watch the video above. Such a simple, emotional and beautiful video!
On Monday, Feb. 11, E! News will debut “Stay,” Rihanna’s new single off her seventh studio album, “Unapologetic”.
“The video was really, really simple. I pretty much stayed put in a bathtub, and we shot it really tight, really close,” she told us of the video. “There’s Mikky Ekko in the video as well. This is the first time I’ve ever collaborated with him, so I’m excited about that because he’s actually the one who wrote the song and I kinda just fell in love with it so much and in love with the tone of his voice and we wanna keep him a part of it, so you’ll see him in the video.” The singer added, “It’s a very emotional song and it’s personal, so you just think about…it’s almost like telling a story, and when you tell a story, even to yourself—if you’re saying it out loud and expressing how you feel—it needs to be powerful because it needs to be authentic.”
Rihanna’s video for “Diamonds” is a feast for the eyes. It’s full of dreamy, surreal images of the pop star, as she (somewhat mournfully) makes her way through a number of sometimes-unimaginable set-ups.
The dreamlike scenes run the gamut of the beautiful and the sad. She’s singing in the desert with two wild horses. Later, she’s in a post-apocalyptic world while people around her go up in flames. She rolls up cigarettes made of diamonds and other stuff (recalling the track’s album art). She goes swimming. She cries. She even clutches the tattooed arm of her lover.
If fans are confused by what’s happening in the video, that’s just fine. According to the singer, the Anthony Mandler-directed clip is running more on emotion, than any tangible storyline.
“With every song it’s a different story, so the visuals are very specific to that story and that world. With ‘Diamonds,’ it was just a series of vignettes that we put together to help get the emotion across throughout the song ’cause the song changes and it builds, and there’s no real way that you could do that,” she explained. “You just want people to feel that and I wanted little cutaways of interactions that would give you the right emotion.”
Mandler and Rihanna are no strangers to creating memorable videos. While “Diamonds” is their latest baby, they have also collaborated on videos for “Hate That I Love You,” “Disturbia,” “Russian Roulette” “Only Girl (In the World)” and “Man Down,” among others.
“Diamonds” is not only visually setting the tone for her November 19 album release, Unapologetic, but also giving fans an idea of what they may hear on it. “It was the right powerful record,” she said. “It was hopeful. It was also different from what people are used to hearing from me. It was a song that meant something, and that’s the whole theme throughout the album.”
Tune in to MTV & VEVO TONIGHT at 6:55 pm EST for the premiere of Rihanna’s “Diamonds” music video.
RiRi herself will deliver a special introduction before the video airs. The 24-hour exclusive of “Diamonds,” premiering on MTV and MTV.com, will extend to all of MTV’s channels at 7 p.m. ET, when mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV Jams premiere the music video and put it into regular rotation. Fans around the world will also be able to stream the video online at Rihanna.MTV.com.
Just after you check out the video, Rihanna will be taking over Facebook Live for a real time interview with Bravo’s Andy Cohen at 7 PM EST. RSVP here.
If you live outside the United States, find out what time you can watch the video:
Get your first look at the fiery set of Rihanna’s new music video, “Diamonds”, premiering on MTV and VEVO Thursday at 6:55 p.m. ET/PT.
UPDATE: Via MTV: On Thursday, November 8 at 6:50 p.m. ET, we’ll host the exclusive world premiere of the hotly anticipated vid on-air and online. And that’s not all: Rih Rih herself will deliver a special introduction. The 24-hour exclusive of “Diamonds,” premiering on MTV and MTV.com, will extend to all of MTV’s channels at 7 p.m. ET, when mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV Jams premiere the music video and put it into regular rotation. Fans around the world will also be able to stream the video online at Rihanna.MTV.com.
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THIS IS THE END (2013) Release date: June 2013 Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen Status: Post-production
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse. Actors are playing themselves.
NUDE (2012) Release date: November 2012 Details: Third fragrance
Nude by Rihanna is a sweet floral – fruity fragrance with a
vanilla background. With its woody and skin musky notes, the fragrance
transmits intimacy and a feeling of bare skin and nakedness.
STYLED TO ROCK Coming in: Fall 2013 Network: Style Official Website
The Styled To Rock competition launches with a nationwide search for cutting-edge designers looking to take their craft to the next level. Rihanna will personally select the 12 designers.
LOUD TOUR LIVE AT THE O2 DVD Release date: December 18, 2012 Pre-order now: DVD, Blu-Ray
Loud Tour Live At The O2 is a 90 minutes-plus chronicle of Rihanna's sold-out show at the legendary London venue, the climactic final stop of her 2011 world tour.
UNAPOLOGETIC (2012) Release date: November 19, 2012 Label: Island Def Jam
Rihanna has released her 7th album, "Unapologetic". The first single, "Diamonds", is one of Rihanna's biggest hits worldwide. "Stay" is the second single and "Pour It Up" has been added to the U.S. radios.
Current Projects
What is Rihanna currently working at
THIS IS THE END (2013) Release date: June 2013 Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen Status: Post-production
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse. Actors are playing themselves.
NUDE (2012) Release date: November 2012 Details: Third fragrance
Nude by Rihanna is a sweet floral – fruity fragrance with a
vanilla background. With its woody and skin musky notes, the fragrance
transmits intimacy and a feeling of bare skin and nakedness.
STYLED TO ROCK Coming in: Fall 2013 Network: Style Official Website
The Styled To Rock competition launches with a nationwide search for cutting-edge designers looking to take their craft to the next level. Rihanna will personally select the 12 designers.
LOUD TOUR LIVE AT THE O2 DVD Release date: December 18, 2012 Pre-order now: DVD, Blu-Ray
Loud Tour Live At The O2 is a 90 minutes-plus chronicle of Rihanna's sold-out show at the legendary London venue, the climactic final stop of her 2011 world tour.
UNAPOLOGETIC (2012) Release date: November 19, 2012 Label: Island Def Jam
Rihanna has released her 7th album, "Unapologetic". The first single, "Diamonds", is one of Rihanna's biggest hits worldwide. "Stay" is the second single and "Pour It Up" has been added to the U.S. radios.
Rihanna’s video for “Diamonds” is a feast for the eyes. It’s full of dreamy, surreal images of the pop star, as she (somewhat mournfully) makes her way through a number of sometimes-unimaginable set-ups.
