UNLOCKED won the ‘Best Use of Social Media’ Award at the 2011 Creative Media Awards.

The Rihanna: UNLOCKED campaign was designed as a thank you to her millions of fans worldwide, aka the #RihannaNavy. The campaign put the fans in the driver’s seat with the power to unlock exclusives from Rihanna’s new album. The interactive, gamified experience centered on the artist’s Facebook profile, through which The “Navy” was tasked to work in combination with fans around the world on multiple “missions” to access new content.

Congratulations are in order for Team Rihanna, Roc Nation, Def Jam, AgencyNet and the Rihanna Navy!

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.

Princess RiRi performed in front of 18 thousand fans in Barcelona, Spain, last night (Dec. 14).

Director Melina Matsoukas has talked to pitchfork.com about Rihanna’s “We Found Love” music video:

Pitchfork: I was pleasantly surprised by Rihanna’s acting in this video.
MM: She’s good, right? I was surprised, too. There’s a moment in the “Man Down” video when she’s about to be raped, and she gives this glance, and I remembered thinking, “Wow.” That gave me a hint. So I went for it with this treatment and she loved it. Then she texted me a couple days before the shoot when I’m in Belfast still trying to cast: “You better get me a hot guy because I love this treatment and I’m definitely fake fucking him all over the place.” [laughs] So I had to find her a guy that she was really attracted to because if she doesn’t like him, we’re fucked. So it’s two days before the shoot and I call this boxer that my friend’s friend told me about and I’m like, “You have to tape yourself right now! Be that man we all want but we know we shouldn’t fuck with. Just smoke your cigarette and say everything really masculine and rough around the edges.” So he sends us this little thing off his iPhone, and it was perfect. And then he met Rihanna on set, and I’m like, “OK, you guys are just lost in love– go!” And he took her hand and they started running around and it was just magic. It felt so real. They didn’t have to do any of the face fucking until the third day [laughs], so that helped a little, too.

Pitchfork: There’s a great shot when they’re arguing in the car and you can see Rihanna’s veins popping out of her neck. What were they shouting about?
MM: [laughs] She’s just mad as shit. I’m in the car with them, laying down in the back seat so no one could see me, and walking them through the fight. And I’m just like feeding her stuff. She looks really intense but she’s saying the most outlandish shit ever, like, “Dudley, you fucking tight-pant-wearing da da da,” just screaming. And then those veins popped out. It definitely tells that story– I wouldn’t want to get her mad.

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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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Rihanna and Melissa were recently seen in Milan outside their hotel, signing autographs to fans. This is almost the end of the Loud Tour. Over the course of six months, RiRi played 98 shows and is culminating with three gigs at London’s O2 Arena on December 20, 21 and 22.

You’ve seen the ads and watched the video. Watch the backstage footage of that now-notorious video shot by Stephen Klein and directed by Johan Renck on location in New York, featuring Rihanna:

Rihanna has recently filmed another ad campaign for Armani in Dublin, Ireland.

Thanks for the tip, Eva!

Check out a brand new behind the scenes video from Loud Tour in Atlantic City! You can see Rihanna getting ready for the show (including practicing with her voice coach on Skype).

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Rihanna was spotted yesterday in Milan in her natural brown hair again! In the evening she has performed in Assago. Next stop = Spain!

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Last night Rihanna performed in Turin, Italy! Federico from RihannaItalia.it was there so make sure to read the full coverage on our italian page! Rihanna even took Fede’s flag! Check the gallery for some pictures from the show.

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So here we are, a $200 million film based on Battleship. You know, the matrix-based board game that mixes hide and seek With geometry class. And here’s 18 things you should know about Battleship according to ComicBookMovie. Read more after the cut.

In the movie, Rihanna stars as a Petty Officer (GM2) Raikes, Hopper’s best friend, crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones.

The story takes place In the Hawaiian Islands, where an international naval fleet at Pearl Harbor engage in a very dynamic and intense battle against an alien race known as “The Regents”. The aliens come to planet Earth, on a mission to build a power source in the ocean. Upon their visit, they come in contact with the navy fleet. The film is also purported to show both sides of the story, from the aliens’ perspective, as well as the humans’ so the audience knows exactly where the opponent’s ships are.

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