It’s been a good run of concerts for Rihanna, who last night was awarded with a an award in recognition of breaking the record for the most sell-out dates at the venue by a female artist.

Rihanna will have performed to more than 170,000 fans over 10 nights, beating Britney Spears who packed houses over eight nights in June, 2009, during her Circus world tour.

Sally Davies, events director at The O2, said: ‘We at The O2 felt that this amazing record could not pass unrecognised and as Rihanna has spent so much of her time in London at our venue, we wanted to give her something to remember us by. We hope to see her here again very soon.’

To Drake, Take Care is the story of a kid who goes from wide-eyed Toronto dreamer to rap royalty. But while Drizzy has painted that picture through songs on his sophomore set, the Young Money star hopes to roll out more visuals in support of the album’s narrative, and he has big plans for one video in particular.

We’ve already seen “Marvins Room” and “Headlines,” the Lil Wayne-assisted “The Motto” is already in the can, and when MTV News caught up with him backstage at the Power 106 Cali Christmas Concert, Drizzy Drake revealed he’s set to shoot a clip for the title track with Rihanna.

“It’s a project where I think visuals are called for, for a lot of those records,” he said. “So we’re working on definitely the ‘Take Care’ video, which we’re trying to get shot soon and a couple of other ones, too, off the album.”

Drake, who can now hoist another platinum plaque for Take Care, wouldn’t dish on the treatment or concept for the video, but he has high expectations for it. + Continue reading…

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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“That Rihanna reign just don’t let up”, a prophecy that holds truer than ever as we reflect on the last year in the superstar’s record-breaking career. 2011 saw Rihanna continuing to sell millions upon millions of albums, receiving a flurry of prestigious awards, dominating the airwaves with her smash singles, gracing covers of magazines around the world, embarking on a massive international tour spanning over a hundred cities, lending her iconic brand to several billion dollar cooperation campaigns, and still managing to find time to record yet another album filled with a collection of songs that have Rihanna fans gitty with excitement as to what 2012 can only bring. Rihanna has become the rare form of pop star that has managed the seemingly impossible act of, not only maintaining, expanding her popularity and quality as the years of her reign accumulate.

Loud sold over 6,000,000 copies internationally propelled by it’s string of smash singles, acclaimed promotional performances, and critical praise. It is, to date, Rihanna’s fastest selling album to reach that sales bracket and the second best seller, of any artist, since it’s release. However, Rihanna was not about to milk the success dry from the project, and announced mid-year that she was working on her follow-up already. Talk That Talk was released worldwide in late November to an opening of over 500,000 copies sold — easily clearing her career biggest launch. Following, just two weeks later, Talk That Talk continued to break Rihanna records by becoming her fastest album to shift over a 1,000,000 units. Having sold a career total of over 26,000,000 albums bodes well with her retaining her lead as the most successful album’s artist since her debut over half a decade ago.

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Rihanna hosted a private party in London on Sunday (18th December) and dressed up as Madonna from her ‘Like A Virgin’ video.

The ‘We Found Love’ singer had just arrived in the capital in preparation for her final three shows of her ‘Loud’ tour and decided to put on a prom party for her tour crew and friends.

Rihanna tweeted:

I’m decked out in lace, sequins, a giant bow, and hair spray!!!!! #80sBaby

Watch a sneak peak from Rihanna’s upcoming music video “You Da One”! The video is expected to premiere this week!

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It’s hard to keep up with Rihanna’s ever-changing hair color and wardrobe, but one thing that will be sticking around for at least the next 10 days is her manicure.

While in Milan last week, the chart-topping singer got her nails done by CND VIP manicurist for Milan’s Ladybird House Flavia Pitton, who used CND Retention+ Liquid and CND Retention+ Powder to build up a strong base on her nails, then topped it off with CND Shellac in Black Pool — a creamy, jet-black shade.

“I love the easy application and the ‘just like polish’ appeal that make CND Shellac’d nails always so chic, even when you go for a trendy design,” Pitton tells Us Weekly.

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Big news Navy! You’ve been begging for it & Rihanna heard you! The last three dates of the LOUD Tour at the O2 in London will be filmed for a concert DVD coming out in 2012!

Rihanna was spotted doing some pre-Christmas shopping at Armani on London’s Bond Street last night. She’s currently in town for the last 3 shows from Loud Tour.

RiRi tweeted:

#YOUDAONEVIDEO you know im already in trouble 4 this but, i like to keep yall in the loop.

“You Da One” is the second single off of Rihanna’s sixth album, “Talk That Talk”.
Request “You Da One”; Buy “You Da One” on iTunes.

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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