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Rihanna has more Pop #1's than any person in history... With Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" going #1 this week, she has now set the record for the most Pop Songs #1's. Rihanna has scored seven Pop #1's, the most in the chart's 18-year history.
Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Lady Gaga are all tied for second with six #1's. Rihanna's other Pop #1s include "SOS", "Take A Bow", "Disturbia" and "Rude Boy". She is also featured on T.I.'s "Live Your Life" and Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie", both Pop #1s. [SOURCE]
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Nicki Minaj is a very good rapper, and over the past few years she's used mixtapes and guest appearances to let everybody know it. Both formats suit her, the same way sketch comedy suits some actors better than leading roles. She's funny, and surprising, and sometimes she leaps from voice to voice with showy speed — a Barbie-inspired chirp gets followed by a Caribbean growl, following which she's just a tough girl from Queens, following which she's English, or crazy, or an evil twin she calls "Roman Zolanski."
That range leaves her sounding unhinged and dominating at the same time, which is usually a fun combination. More important, it turns one of the obstacles to her work — being a woman in a job almost exclusively done by men — into an opportunity. The average male emcee doesn't have access to the same number of poses Minaj does: She can roar and spit the way her peers do, but they can't necessarily bat their eyes and drop into coy, teasing voices like she can. Sometimes, next to Minaj, they seem a little penned in by their own masculinity, while she can perform any role she likes — right down to the Day-Glo wigs, bizarro fashion, and Betty Boop facial expressions that have endeared her to the pop world.
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Though the holidays are just around the corner, Rihanna has her mind on using her celebrity to help others. The Bajan singer has partnered with the American Cancer Society to record a PSA, where she gives a quirky rendition of the 'Happy Birthday' song and wishes many more birthdays in hopes of increasing the number of cancer survivors.
"More birthdays mean more hope, more love, more friends, more summers, more memories that you can enjoy and spend with your family and your friends and the people that you love and the people that love you because you deserve that," she said in the clip.
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Rihanna and Kanye West have made beautiful music together in the past; they share a Grammy for “Run This Town” with Jay-Z and Rihanna is the butter on the bread that is Ye’s “All of the Lights.” But the two came together for another reason entirely for the latest issue of Interview Magazine. Kanye West played one of his most hated figures — journalist — to interview Rihanna for the cover story.
The admiration Ye has for his little sister is clear in the questions he asks. “How does it feel to know you could have any man in the world? Or woman. How does it feel to know that you can turn straight women gay?” Ye asked. “No one woman should have all that power.”
Through the rest of the interview, the flowery cover for it is above, Rihanna tells Kanye about not showing too much vulnerability in this business, fashion, and starting a family (“If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma.”). See photos from the cover shoot here and read the interview here.
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