Rihanna: Right Now - New Single

[Me. I Am Salman]

I really like this album :love:
favourites are Diamonds, Numb, Jump, Stay & Nobody's Business
on the whole I think it's better than TTT.. but I haven't listened to it enough to be sure

[Doogle]

1. What Now
2. Numb
3. Nobody's Business
4. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
5. Get It Over With
6. Diamonds
7. Stay
8. Phresh Out The Runway
9. Lost In Paradise
10. Jump
11. Pour It Up
12. Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Song
13. No Love Allowed
14. Right Now

[Shaun]

Loveeeee Song was one of the best on first impressions, I thought

[Doogle]

I really liked the chorus but the rest of it was someone dreadful feat. Rihanna

[MeMyselfAndI]

Can someone PM the link to download the album & instructions on how to download it lmao

[Saph]

I've changed my mind after listening again today...

Rated R > Loud > Good Girl Gone Bad > Talk That Talk > Unapologetic > AGLM/MOTS

[Jords]

Dunno if I care, TTT really did not stick in mind. Shall probably give it a listen.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Good Girl Gone Bad > A Girl Like Me > Loud > Unapologetic/TTT (haven't decided) > Music of the Sun > Rated R

imo

[Doogle]

Rated R > Loud > Good Girl Gone Bad > Unapologetic > A Girl Like Me > Talk That Talk > Music of the Sun

I've re-listened to all lately so even though I always change my mind that's my current thoughts. Loud as an album felt badly presented but the songs were great and it was my favourite "era" of Rihanna in terms of videos, singles, promo etc. so I moved it up because I think I had it quite low before.

[Saph]

Rated R > Loud > Good Girl Gone Bad > Unapologetic > A Girl Like Me > Talk That Talk > Music of the Sun

I've re-listened to all lately so even though I always change my mind that's my current thoughts. Loud as an album felt badly presented but the songs were great and it was my favourite "era" of Rihanna in terms of videos, singles, promo etc. so I moved it up because I think I had it quite low before.

same

[armand.kay]

Loud & Talk that talk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else she has done with her life.

[Saph]

http://soundcloud.com/rihanna/diamonds-remix-f-kanye-west

diamonds remix ft kanye west

[Saph]

http://soundcloud.com/rihanna/diamonds-remix-f-kanye-west

diamonds remix ft kanye west

[Smithy]

I've changed my mind after listening again today...

Rated R > Loud > Good Girl Gone Bad > Talk That Talk > Unapologetic > AGLM/MOTS

IA with this

[Me. I Am Salman]

his part was almost 2 mins long D:
anyway it's not bad

[Smithy]

Half of Me leaked in full idk if it's been posted or not but yah

[Doogle]

I couldn't find a HQ link

[Smithy]

Mines 128kps (cd rip i think)

[reece(:]

Rated R > Unapologetic >GGGB > A Girl Like Me > Loud > Talk that Talk > Music of the Sun

[Niall]

cannot wait to tear this shambles of an album to pieces when I review it <3

:amazed:

[Saph]

Half of Me is amazing :D

[Saph]

ffJaw3Fu64Y

[Vladimir]

i'm not in love with the album tbh :( it's gonna change hopefully

1. Stay
2. Diamonds
3. Lost In Paradise
4. No Love Allowed
5. What Now
6. Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary
7. Jump
8. Numb
9. Nobody's Business
10. Right Now
11. Loveeeeeee Song
12. Fresh Off The Runway
13. Get It Over With
14. Pour It Up

[Saph]

Me neither, hopefully it will grow on me as the era goes on.

I think she should release these songs..

1. Diamonds - sept 2012
2. Jump - dec 2012/jan 2013
3. No Love Allowed - mar/apr 2013
4. Nobodies Business/Lost In Paradise - jun/jul 2013
5. Half Of Me - aug/sep 2013

if she releases Right Now/FOTR :bored:

[Smithy]

She'll be lucky to get 3 (successful) singles from this album, I think this'll be even more of a disjointed era than TTT seeing as she's touring

[Saph]

The tour wont matter much, she was touring all through the Rated R and Loud eras

[MeMyselfAndI]

I need instructions on how to actually download the album, All the links I press download i can't actually play the songs. It just says windows can't open file. I've downloaed 7-Zip but wtf do I do. When I downloaded Glassheart It just went straight to windows media player, no hassle :conf:

[Shaun]

I'm not sure how to use 7-Zip, I use WinRAR, and basically what you do with a .zip or .rar file is, when you download it, it should open in WinRAR or 7zip. You then click "extract" and choose a file folder for it to be sent to. You can then add them to iTunes/WMP from there

[Jords]

Listening now :)

[Jords]

aint no bodeh binny

[Jords]

First listen...

1. Half Of Me
2. Pour It Up
-------------------------
3. Stay
4. Phresh Out The Runway
5. Love Without Tradegy / Mother Mary
6. Jump
7. Diamonds
8. Lost In Paradise
-------------------------
9. No Love Allowed
10. Nobody's Business
11. Numb
12. Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Song
-------------------------
13. Right Now
14. What Now
15. Get It Over With

Not too bad, depends how much it holds interest. I really do like Half of Me and Pout it Up!

[MeMyselfAndI]

I've listened to the whole album twice, I don't think it's very good at all.. I'll listen one more time & rank the songs.

[Saph]

I'm still undecided as too how much I like/dislike it.. its sort of like the crap songs are SO crap but the good songs are SO good that it needs that balance.. as a whole i'm disappointed, I was hoping she would do more Rated R, less Talk that Talk but its aaaalriiight. No doubt we'll have another album next year so until then Unapologetic will satisfy my Rihanna cravings. ;) and plus theres new albums from Mariah, Beyonce, Gaga and maybe Britney to tide me over.

[Iceman]

Numb>>>>>>>>>>>>the rest of the album that i didnt listen to.....

Em has all of 30 seconds....it's quite weak but I dont mind these features are just promo for the album......i'll judge him when I hear his solo stuff.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Numb is so awful

[Iceman]

LOL

[MeMyselfAndI]

Nobody’s Business
Diamonds
-----------------
Lost In Paradise
Love Without Tragedy
--------------------
No Love Allowed
Right Now
Jump
Stay
Fresh Off The Runaway
Loveeeeeeeee Song
----------------------------------------------
Right Now
Power It Up
Get It Over With
Numb


Only 4 songs I can say I like /:

Album has too many random not needed features (Like 7 feature artists :conf:), Also far too many bridges in songs

Listened to the album 3 times, so It's not as if they're growers tbh

[Saph]

I'm making a pop divas calender for 2013, so far I have..

Jan - Nicki
Feb - Rihanna
Mar - Madonna
Apr -
May - Gaga
Jun - Beyonce
Jul -
Aug - Jlo
Sep -
Oct - Britney
Nov -
Dec - Mariah

[Smithy]

Numb>>>>>>>>>>>>the rest of the album that i didnt listen to.....


:joker::joker::joker:

[MeMyselfAndI]

Definately her worst album yet

Rated R > GGGB > Loud > A Girl Like Me > Music Of The Sun > Talk That Talk > Unapoligetic

[Saph]

dont think she'll never make an album like Rated R again seen as its one of her lowest selling albums :(

[MeMyselfAndI]

I'd give:
Rated R - 9/10
Good Girl Gone Bad - 9/10
Loud - 7.5/10
A Girl Like Me - 6.5/10
Music Of The Sun - 6/10
Talk That Talk - 5/10
Unapologetic - 3/10

[Me. I Am Salman]

Rated R is awful and I will never understand why people like it so much
Also Unapologetic isn't bad at all imo :)
But GGGB > all.

[MeMyselfAndI]

I don't actually know what I prefur to GGGB to Rated R, I listed to GGGB way more & had much more standout tracks, but Rated R as an album really flowed

[Saph]

Rated R is awful and I will never understand why people like it so much
Also Unapologetic isn't bad at all imo :)
But GGGB > all.

Why don't you like Rated R? I never used to like it when it was out but when Loud came along I started loving it :s then hated Loud until TTT came along.. maybe i'll love Una when album #8 comes

[Saph]

I'm going down to hmv tomorrow to get my real copy of Unapologetic and ill listen in full and make my final decision.

[Jords]

Half of Me is too good for deluxe!

[Me. I Am Salman]

Why don't you like Rated R? I never used to like it when it was out but when Loud came along I started loving it :s then hated Loud until TTT came along.. maybe i'll love Una when album #8 comes

It was just so dreary and dull.. videos as well
I know people say it's a really personal album but that doesn't automatically make it good
gave up on her but then Loud came along :lovedup:

[Saph]

#1 in over 30 countries (on itunes) already :D hopefully she can hold it

[Saph]

reviews are in

Financial Times - 4 out of 5


Unapologetic is a big budget affair designed to sell millions but it’s also a powerful, even unsettling, act of personal expression. It opens with “Fresh Off the Runway”, an aggressive statement of purpose with synths roaring like a private jet and Rihanna strutting through the song in lip-curled mode. “Numb” boldly throws us off balance with woozy drugged beats, hallucinatory vocals and a sinister guest spot from Eminem as a sexual predator. Thoughts turn to Rihanna’s assault at the hands of former partner Chris Brown, who, apparently forgiven, turns up on the upbeat duet “Nobody’s Business”. Yet the after-effects of his violence grip the album, in its imagery (“I pray that love doesn’t strike twice”) and musical effects such as “Jump”’s dubstep seizures. Themes of assertion and victimhood are framed by cutting-edge dance-pop devised by an elite squad of producers (David Guetta, Stargate, Labrinth), while Rihanna adapts herself effectively to each song’s mood, from power balladry to the reggae lilt of “No Love Allowed”. The result is chart music at its most artful: precision-tooled on the surface, emotionally ambiguous and unresolved at its core.



The Urban Daily
It’s here. A moment in pop music where the artist set up to look the best, sound the best and actually be the best, lives up to the hyperbole and wins the prize. Rihanna will dominate our digital waves whether we want her to or not, but despite the great opportunity to—and even greater expectation that she would—the biggest star on the planet didn’t just chill under that glass ceiling of expectation.
Kinetic and musically varied, Unapologetic blasts the sounds of global, post-mod youth culture through every track. She creates an emotional soundtrack not of some affected, stupid-rich celeb, but of a 24-year old survivor who rocks and laughs and cries. Three years ago, no one would have paid attention to a beautiful piano-ballad like “Stay,” but now you can’t deny its truth. Not because of the events we all witnessed, but because of how honest and emotionally-connected her vocals are.
“Diamonds” succeeds in its video-driven who-is-this-about mystery, but works better if taken as a self-reflective song of love, affirmation and triumph. “…you’re a shooting star I see.”
“What Now” takes a page from Pink’s yell-as-long-as-you-have-a-great-hook style and raises her one.
“Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary” takes some Madonna-esque ‘90s synth notes and flips them into a brave confessional. “Mr. Jesus, I would love to be a Queen… / but I’m from the left side of an island” is the chant that will end her stadium tours with a perfect raise-your-smartphone-candle moment. “I’m prepared to die…” she cries. A 21st century big-girl-lost.
Unapologetic is Rihanna’s 7th album in as many years and so I’m transferring my “hottest working in show business” title—held by Diddy for a decade—to the Barbadian workaholic with over 140 MM digital sales worldwide & twelve Hot 100 #1s singles. Most of the hits have been the brash and upbeat kind.
“Fresh Out The Runway” continues the tradition. It’s loud and as curse-filled as it should be to satisfy the album title, reminding all the parents from the album’s first verse that your tween ain’t ready for Rihanna yet. The second David Guetta produced electronic dance track, “Right Now,” is a future #1 that sounds so obvious because…it’s that good.
Adele was our last pop obsession. Her success was a wonderful correction on the landscape, a reminder that every seven years listeners must experience overwhelming talent or else suffer that same-song-over-and-over descent into superficiality. Unapologetic also helps us avoid that fate soaring when it unhooks itself from what’s pop-current and comfortable.

Deep in nightclub basements, tracks like the dark, ethereal “Power It Up” or “Jump” sound like radio versions of the electro and dub-step ahead-of-the-curve kids have been raving to for a year. On the album of the biggest pop star in the world, her sounds advance the culture.
Yep, it’s hard to find the beat to dance to on “Numb” but that’s the whole point. When the song’s intoxicating melody gets destroyed by an Eminem guest verse that sounds like it’s been pushed through a digital wood chipper, hope you have the largest Beats headphones.

The same are-you-cool-enough-test happens on “Loveeee Song” feat Future (you fail if you say he sounds like a drunk singing a love song) until the album pulls back with the more straight-ahead “Lost In Paradise” and dancehall-tinged gem “No Love Allowed.”
Rihanna’s critics haven’t needed to comment on her actual music or talent lately, her personal life has given them all the bullets they need to shoot her down one Instagram pic at a time. This album re-ups the chamber not with the rumor of a make-up with the redemptive (?) Chris Brown, but the actual fact of it—at least on wax.
The duet, “Nobody’s Business” is already the album’s most talked-about track, but…guess what? it’s also the album’s best, a perfect blend of R&B soul and pop feel-good with an irresistible sing-in-the-shower falsetto hook. Rih Rih and her ex harmonize over a cool melody that makes you dance to what is essentially a middle-finger-to-the-world hook. When Brown grunts “ain’t nobody’s bidness, but mine and my baby…” he’s impersonating Michael Jackson on purpose and MJ’s “Leave Me Alone” ain’t got nothing on this.
So when the 24/7 mania comes for the song’s forthcoming music video—and I’m as sure that will happen as I am Gov Christie will announce his ’16 Presidential run the week after he covers People mag 100 lbs lighter—Rihanna’s triumph is a super fresh song from a super fresh artist at the very top of her game. Unapologetic is Rihanna’s best.

The Guardian - 3 out of 5 stars
You don't even have to listen to Rihanna's seventh album to set alarm bells ringing. You merely have to look at its track listing. There, sandwiched between a collaboration with singer Mikky Ekko called Stay and the intriguingly titled Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary comes track 10: Nobody's Business (feat. Chris Brown). Uh-oh.

If nothing else, Nobody's Business is – if you'll pardon the phrase – one in the eye for the kind of person who tells you modern pop music has nothing new to offer: it's hard to think of another perky disco-house number featuring a victim of domestic abuse duetting with her abuser about how perfect their relationship is. "Could we become love's persona?" they coo, prompting the answer: no you probably can't, because three years ago, one of you beat the other one up so savagely he left her with major contusions either side of her face, a bloody nose, a split lip and bite marks on her arms and fingers, an incident she told police was symptomatic of an "ongoing and escalating abusive relationship".

You'd listen to Nobody's Business with your jaw on the floor if you weren't well primed for what to expect. Vast swathes of Unapologetic's lyrics appear to be concerned with Rihanna and Brown's relationship. You get a lot of stuff about how exciting dangerous men are, the appeal of affairs that are wrong but feel right, how no one else can match up to him. "I pray that love don't strike twice," offers Love Without Tragedy, again inviting an inevitable response: you want to pray your ghastly on-off boyfriend doesn't, either. You could dismiss all this stuff as merely wildly misguided and naive were it not for the fact that elsewhere, Unapologetic actually appears to play on the incident in question.

"Your love hit me to the core, I was fine til you knocked me to the floor," she sings over a loping, drumless reggae rhythm on No Love Allowed. "Dial 911 it's a critical emergency." Rihanna might argue with some justification that a lot of other people have made money from her relationship with Brown, so why shouldn't she? Furthermore, perhaps, she's only telling the truth about how she feels. But that doesn't make hearing it any more edifying. Still, the whole thing must come as quite the spirit-bucking tonic for any listening domestic abusers.

Leaving all that aside to concentrate on the music is a big ask. But it's worth noting that, sonically, Unapologetic is a far more interesting album than its predecessor. Rihanna is as responsible as any artist for the homogenisation of the Top 40 into the same weary pop-dance template. It gets used over and over again because it's commercially successful, and it's been more commercially successful for Rihanna than anyone, providing the basis for S&M, The Only Girl in the World, We Found Love and Where Have You Been. And yet, it's largely absent here, the David Guetta-produced Right Now notwithstanding. That sounds less like a song than a bid to break the world record for cramming current pop cliches into three minutes. Elsewhere, however, the various producers seem to have been minded to try something different, or at least to rearrange voguish sounds into less familiar shapes. Fresh Off the Runway piles on distorted synthesisers derived from Joey Beltram's 1990 rave classic Mentasm until it sounds weird and disorientating. What Now attempts to weld a walloping brostep drop to a sensitive acoustic guitar and piano ballad with suitably peculiar results: there's a fantastic moment towards the end where producer Ighile throws in a widdly-woo guitar solo, apparently in the mistaken belief that the track wasn't yet preposterous enough.

During its best moments, you're struck by the suspicion that Unapologetic's producers might be trying to undercut the lyrical content. Numb apparently returns to the subject of Rihanna's personal life – "Can't tell me nothin' … I don't care, get closer to me if you dare" – but the music doesn't sound defiant: it lurches and drags along, an oppressive mass of slowed-down voices and grating electronics. Pour It Up's invitation to splash your cash in a strip club is set to a weird, disjointed, gloopy backdrop: it doesn't sound like much fun there, a sensation compounded by a particularly dead-eyed vocal. You get another one of those on Jump, ostensibly an unmissable invitation to frenetic sexual activity in Rihanna's boudoir, rendered intriguingly weird by her delivery. "Ride my pony, my saddle is waiting," she sings, blankly, as if she finds the prospect of frenetic sexual activity only marginally more attractive than having a verruca frozen off.

So there's stuff here that's worth hearing, if you could untangle the music from the artist's personal life. But you can't, and furthermore, you get the feeling that the artist doesn't want you to. Perhaps it's quite a cold and canny move masquerading as an outpouring of unpalatable emotion, playing on the public's prurient interest in her love life. Perhaps that's too cynical. Either way, for all its musical value, listening to Unapologetic is a pretty depressing experience.

USA Today
The catchiest song on Rihanna's new album, Unapologetic (* * * out of four), may also be the most disturbing one. On Nobody's Business, an exuberant, strings-laced duet that nods to great pop-soul records of the '70s and early '80s, the singer is joined by fellow star and former steady Chris Brown, his voice limpid and silky smooth. "I want to be your baby," she croons to the man who pled guilty to assaulting her three and a half years ago. "You'll always be my baby. Tell me what you want now."

There are other infectious tunes on Unapologetic (out Monday), and others that will make you squirm a bit. It's not always clear if the 24-year-old superstar is being painfully candid or playfully provocative -- or which of those approaches should be more unsettling. The tracks, crafted by a team that includes Stargate, The-Dream and David Guetta, use spacious arrangements filled with bright, sometimes frosty electronic textures that, like the lyrics, alternately convey lust and fear, a need to connect and an impulse to retreat. "Get close to me if you dare," Rihanna teases on the coldly thumping Numb, featuring a cheeky Eminem.

On the frantic, pulsing Right Now, she extols instant gratification: "Tomorrow's too far away … All we get is right now." What Now veers from sweetly spare acoustic verses to a thrashing chorus; on the bridge, Rihanna laments, "I don't know where to go/I don't know what to feel."

Several songs portray the singer as a young woman prone to romanticize danger. On Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary, propelled by a rhythmic riff that recalls The Police's Message In A Bottle, she recalls a relationship wrecked by an incident in a car -- the scene of her alleged confrontation with Brown -- and admits that it "felt like love struck me in the night." Then the arrangement slows, and over a stark, airy backdrop, she appeals to "Mister Jesus" and "Mother Mary," but resolves, "I'm prepared to die in the moment."

On the last track of the standard version of Unapologetic, the anthemic Lost In Paradise, she confesses, "If I open up my eyes/I can see the storm," but opts to keep them closed: "It may be wrong/But it feels right." Maybe it's nobody's business if she feels that way, but Rihanna still compels our curiosity -- and our concern.

[Jake.]

I love Half Of Me/Stay!

[Jordan.]

About to listen now :suspect:

[Saph]

just brought my copy from HMV :D I was £2 short of the Deluxe one so had to settle for the standard one..

it was really embarrassing, I walked in and spent about 15 mins looking around the whole store to find it and just as I was about to leave I saw a massive display right at the front door D;

[Jordan.]

Like Right Now, Jump & Phresh Out the Runway so far :worship: The rest are getting deleted.

-carries on-

[Saph]

cover looks nicer with no writing

http://thehonestyhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Rihanna-Unapologetic-Album.jpg

[Jordan.]

Right Now
Jump
Phresh Out the Runway
Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
--------------------
Nobodys Business
Pour It Up
No Love Allowed
Lost In Paradise
Stay
-------------------
What Now
Get It Over With
Numb
Loveeeeee Song

It's alright overall, not as good as TTT (I don't have any of her other albums to compare to)

[Saph]

i'm gonna say..

1. Half Of Me
2. Lost In Paradise
3. No Love Allowed
4. What Now
5. Nobody's Business
6. Get It Over With
7. Jump
8. Stay
9. LWT/MM
10. Diamonds
11. Pour It Up
12. Numb
13. Fresh Of The Runway
14. Loveeee Song
15. Right Now

[Saph]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8EMAeVCMAEUpuB.jpg:large

[Saph]

UK Navy, today, Rihanna will turn on the Christmas tree lights at Westfield Stratford City in London at 4PM. Come down! And tonight's 777 Tour stop brings the show to The Forum...head over to the venue NOW for your free tickets, while stocks last!

I forgot about this D;

[Tom4784]

I'm nearly at the end of the album (thankfully) and there's not been a single good track so far. Like with Talk That Talk it just feels like Rihanna's just released the castoffs from other albums.

[Saph]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdr05brd4S1rcd0aoo1_500.jpg
:worship:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Unapologetic scored 71 on metacritic :worship:

Just 1 point below GGGB and 4 points below Rated R making it her 3rd highest rated album

1. Rated R - 74
2. Good Girl Gone Bad - 72
3. Unapologetic - 71
4. Loud - 67
5. Talk That Talk - 64

(AGLM & MOTS didn't get a score)

[Saph]

thats good :) TTT deserves a bit more than 64 imo :suspect: and Loud..

[Saph]

Everyone blanks AGLM and MOTS :laugh: i'm sure most people just assume GGGB was her first album

[Me. I Am Salman]

well that's a crime because A Girl Like Me is one of her best
SOS, A Girl Like Me, PS I'm Still Not Over You, Unfaithful, We Ride, Who Ya Gonna Run To & If It's Lovin' That You Want Part II :worship:

[Saph]

I love MOTS as well, Pon De Replay & Thug In My Life :lovedup:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Let Me & Rush :lovedup:
She actually performed Let Me at the Loud Tour

sBtJ_EWeLlw

:worship:

[Saph]

hope she performs some earlier songs at the diamonds tour

[Harry!]

Today I got my copy in HMV. I do like it - deeper messages like Rated R and powerhouse vocals like LOUD. I am not quite sure how it is gonna be an stadium album but it will be fun live. Rihanna's best album has to be Good Girl Gone Bad/Loud. My favourite is probably Talk That Talk because of my live connection with that album at Wireless.

My Rihanna album collection :)


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8Fgjg9CMAAroLY.jpg

[Saph]

My Rihanna album collection :)


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8Fgjg9CMAAroLY.jpg


oh you just had to go and upstage me :tongue:

[Harry!]

oh you just had to go and upstage me :tongue:

I did post it on my Twitter and inspired by your post I though I post it here too. :). No matter how many copies of her albums we have it is great that we are supporting her :).

[Saph]

I did post it on my Twitter and inspired by your post I though I post it here too. :). No matter how many copies of her albums we have it is great that we are supporting her :).

:lovedup:

[Saph]

watch 777 live!

ceEsTxYzGhQ

[Me. I Am Salman]

ooh :amazed:

[Saph]

ew why is she singing wait your turn thats a filler

[Me. I Am Salman]

Man Down :love:

[Doogle]

I only have A Girl Like Me, Good Girl Gone Bad and Loud on CD

[Saph]

:worship:

[Saph]

52,990 watching now

[Saph]

love how she chooses the London performance to stream live ;)

[Saph]

60,313 watching now

[Saph]

Unfaithful :love:

[Saph]

is anyone other than me watching? :p

[Me. I Am Salman]

I watched a bit but it's really slow for me so I stopped :laugh:

[Iceman]

I have it on while im thinking of how to start an assignment thats due in the morning...

[Saph]

:D

[Iceman]

Run This Town, one of my favourite songs she featured on

[Iceman]

:amazed: Live your life :amazed:

[Jake.]

I can see it being one of her acclaimed ones.

[Saph]

nearly over now :( just 4 more songs

[Me. I Am Salman]

Rihanna switched on the Christmas lights at Westfield Stratford today
Could have gone hadn't it been for college :bored:

[Saph]

Stay :love:

[bbfan1991]

Are some of the tracks on YouTube? I cannot stop listening to Nobody's Business atm:blush:.

[Saph]

I'm not sure, they probably are though :)

[bbfan1991]

She looks hot:blush:.

[Saph]

I think We Found Love is the last song

[bbfan1991]

Tune:D.

[Saph]

aw its over, she did good :')

[bbfan1991]

I missed half of it:(, was out.

[Saph]

I think it will be available to watch on that YT channel anytime now :)

[bbfan1991]

Thank you:).

[Jordan.]

No Love Allowed has grown on me the most already, one of the best :worship:

[Harry!]

Bought tickets for her Twickenham show - Golden Circle!

[Saph]

Unapologetic is set to debut in the US with sales of 240,000 – 260,000 (her biggest yet!)

past album debuts;
MOTS = n/a
AGLM = 115,000
GGGB = 162,000
RR = 181,000
Loud = 207,000
TTT = 198,000

hopefully she gets that first US #1!

[Me. I Am Salman]

wow :worship:
I wonder what it'll be for the UK

[Me. I Am Salman]

Rihanna, Chris Brown duet 'leading candidate for next single'

Rihanna's new duet with Chris Brown is likely to be her next single.

Vice President of A&R at Island Def Jam, Abou Thiam, has revealed that 'Nobody's Business' is the leading candidate to be the Bajan star's next release.

However, he told Billboard that the label "always takes the approach of putting the record out, getting feedback and letting people decide where to take it from there".

He added: "There's a lot of big records on the album, but we want the people to decide what they want to be next."

The track has been the focus of many reviews of Unapologetic, which received a mixed response from critics upon its release yesterday (November 19).

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a439590/rihanna-chris-brown-duet-leading-candidate-for-next-single.html


yes please :love:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Rihanna co-wrote half of the songs on the album, I don't know why people are saying she just churns out what's given to her

[Saph]

:love:

everyone says its so she can get credit rights and get onto the best selling artist lists :bored: ..pressed... pressed.

[Saph]

I'd be happy with Nobodys Business :) even though I still cant bare Chris Brown..

[Saph]

Meanwhile, Roc Nation president and co-founder Jay Brown insisted that Unapologetic's success will not be measured on sales, but rather its cultural impact.

"She's in a phase where she's going from being cultural to iconic. It's good for her to do her own thing and not do the norm and stretch a little," Brown said.

"She knows that her fans love her being honest about who she is, and that's why she named the album that way - she's not going to apologise for who she is."

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ym5yDLxf1qiyde3.gif

[Me. I Am Salman]

Can mods please merge this with the Unapologetic thread :D

[Saph]

is this thread worthy to join the Unapologetic thread? :suspect:

[Me. I Am Salman]

yes :laugh:

[Smithy]

It's funny coz the title is probably true

[Saph]

http://cdn.thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-7.42.41-PM.png

Diamonds is Rihannas 12th US #1 making her joint 2nd with Madonna for most No.1s by a female artist in the US (1st is Mariah Carey)

[Me. I Am Salman]

In 6 years as well.. incredible :love:
With Unapologetic predicted to be her first US #1 album she's going to be a very happy lady

[Saph]

susan boyle releases an album every November and no one batters an eyelash :suspect:

[Iceman]

http://cdn.thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-shot-2012-11-20-at-7.42.41-PM.png

Diamonds is Rihannas 12th US #1 making her joint 2nd with Madonna for most No.1s by a female artist in the US (1st is Mariah Carey)

:amazed: I can understand why she keeps releasing albums theres demand there for it.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Susan Boyle is a fat old bagpipe, stopped Loud from going to #1 in the US and I think Rated R too

[Saph]

bitch

[Vladimir]

It's funny coz the title it probably true

:joker:

[Harry!]

Currently number 1 in the UK midweeks!

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums

[Me. I Am Salman]

Good, it better stay there. And why the hell is Susan Boyle in the top 5 :yuk: why would you buy a Susan Boyle album?

[Jake.]

Good, it better stay there. And why the hell is Susan Boyle in the top 5 :yuk: why would you buy a Susan Boyle album?

Because people have music tastes which differ to that of yours, perhaps? Crazy thought really.

[Saph]

Susans career is based around keeping Rihanna off the top :suspect: I just know it

[Harry!]

Talk That Talk was an instant number 1, I would expect Unapologetic to be!

[Jords]

After a couple more listens...

1. Pour It Up +1
2. Half Of Me -1
3. Nobody's Business +7
4. Lost in Paradise +4
5. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary -
--------------------
6. Right Now +7
7. Diamonds -
8. Phresh Out The Runway -4
9. Stay -6
10. Jump -4
11. Numb -
--------------------
12. No Love Allowed -3
13. Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Song -1
14. What Now -
15. Get It Over With -

Pretty decent album Ri!

[Iceman]

Merged these if you want the title updated just post in here and i'll change it

[Saph]

thankyou :)

[Saph]

wait is there a way I can edit the OP to make it more fancy?

[Gstar]

Haven't posted since the album came out! Unapologetic slays

[Saph]

omg you got Tyra i got Miss J ;D

[Saph]

I'm liking the album more and more with each listen.

Itunes UK updates;
#12 Diamonds (single)
#27 Right Now
#32 Diamonds (album)
#44 Nobodys Business
#47 Half of Me
#61 Numb
#72 Loveeee Song
#77 Stay
#81 Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary
#96 No Love Allowed
#108 Jump
#117 What Now
#125 Phresh Off The Runway
#149 Pour It Up
#162 Lost In Paradise

each song is climbing each time i refresh

Get It Over With is the only song too not chart

[Saph]

No Love Allowed is being tipped as the 2nd single according to its writer, Elijah Blake

[Saph]

Can I be in charge of this thread? the OP person doesn't come on anymore and the OP is so ugly its driving me mad D;

[reece(:]

Get It Over With is definitely the worst of the bunch

[Me. I Am Salman]

Is that Kanye West on Jump :suspect:

[Vladimir]

Is that Kanye West on Jump :suspect:

no, it's Kevin, Danja's protege

[Jordan.]

No Love Allowed is being tipped as the 2nd single according to its writer, Elijah Blake

:amazed:

[Doogle]

Just listened to Fire Bomb, such a perfect song.

But this album is realllllly good, far better than TTT. I don't get the hate for GIOW, it doesn't feel filler to me.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Unapologetic is #1 :D

[Me. I Am Salman]

Her third consecutive #1 album in the UK, equaling Madonna's chart record

[Saph]

:worship:

[Saph]

whats it like down at #7 SuBo?

[Me. I Am Salman]

quite bad I heard

[Vladimir]

what a great performance on the xf :amazed:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Pour It Up next single (confirmed)

http://www.mtv.co.uk/files/imagecache/inline/2012/11/29/screen-shot-2012-11-29-at-114600.jpg

One of my favourite songs from the album but I think she should have gone for Nobody's Business as the second single

I hope there's a video

[Doogle]

I call flop

[Saph]

Are u sure its confirmed? :suspect:

[Doogle]

It's not, that's a photoshop cover and Rihanna tweteed it or something to appreciate it, it's a mix up of 3 different pictures. I don't think it's a single

[Saph]

I hope not.. NLA/NB please rih!

[Me. I Am Salman]

no it's real and confirmed :)
http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/rihanna/369893-rihanna-topless-pour-it-up-artwork-new-single

[Doogle]

Oh

**** sake rhenna

[Jordan.]

Pour It Up :worship:

That MTV article doesn't really confirm it though they could just be referring to the tweet.

[Saph]

I love the single cover art, its better than the unapologetic one :love: but still wish she eas releasing something different..

[Jordan.]

Rihanna confirms new single 'Stay'
Published Friday, Nov 30 2012, 16:27 GMT | By Lewis Corner |10 comments

Rihanna has confirmed that her new single will be 'Stay'.

The star will release the track as the second cut from her latest album Unapologetic on January 7, after it received its UK radio premiere earlier today.

Rihanna performs a secret gig as part of her 777 tour at the HMV Forum in Kentish Town, London.

The track was written by and features up and coming singer-songwriter Mikky Ekko, and follows previous chart-topper 'Diamonds'.

The announcement of 'Stay' as Rihanna's new single comes a day after the star posted artwork for her track 'Pour It Up' online, seemingly hinting that it would be her next single.

It was recently revealed that Rihanna's collaboration with Chris Brown, 'Nobody's Business', has been flagged up as a likely future single.

Unapologetic became Rihanna's fourth number one album in the UK, while it marked her first ever chart-topper on the US Billboard 200.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a442142/rihanna-confirms-new-single-stay-listen.html

whyyy

[Saph]

ugh.. im so confused.. first its NB then NLA then PIU now Stay D;

I think it will flop, slow songs never do that well in the big charts

[Me. I Am Salman]

Don't know why she's releasing 2 ballads in a row :/

[Smithy]

all her ballads have flopped tbh

[Me. I Am Salman]

Diamonds was successful so you never know

[Saph]

Tbh has she ever released a slow song? Except diamonds

[Doogle]

Diamonds was at least mid-tempo and this is really slow. I can't imagine radio loving it like they do Adele ballads, purely because... I don't actually have a valid reason for that statement I'm just hoping you get what I mean :joker:

[Smithy]

Tbh has she ever released a slow song? Except diamonds

Cali King Bed is the first that comes to mind, im sure if you looked up her singles thered be more

[Vladimir]

Unfaithful, Take A Bow, Russian Roulette, CKB, Diamonds are all ballads, but none of them is as slow as Stay. I think it will flop tbh :(

[Saph]

I listened to the album again this weekend and have changed my mind again, its one of her best :love:

Stay
No Love Allowed
Jump
Half Of Me
Nobodys Business
What Now
Right Now
Lost In Paradise
Fresh Off The Runway
Pour It Up
Get It Over With
Numb
Loveeeeeee Song
Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary

[Marcus.]

her albulm ok

[Me. I Am Salman]

I couldn't stand Right Now when I first heard it but now it's my most played song on Last.fm :joker:

[reece(:]

Definitely up there I listen to the whole brilliant album if you replace Get It Over With with Half of Me :worship:

[Me. I Am Salman]

I like Half of Me but I do think it's a bit overrated

[Saph]

it was written by emeli sande -deletes from itunes-

[Doogle]

1. What Now
2. Numb
3. Nobody's Business
4. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
5. Get It Over With
6. Diamonds
7. Stay
8. Phresh Out The Runway
9. Lost In Paradise
10. Jump
11. Pour It Up
12. Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Song
13. No Love Allowed
14. Right Now

1. What Now (-)
2. Numb (-)
3. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary (+1)
4. Nobody's Business (-1)
5. Get It Over With (-)
6. Diamonds (-)
7. Half of Me (New since it hadnt leaked before lololol)
8. Phresh Out The Runway (-)
9. Lost In Paradise (-)
10. Stay (-3)
11. Pour It Up (-)
12. Jump (-2)
13. Lov7 Song (-1)
14. No Love Allowed (-1)
15. Right Now (-1)

I actually don't mind Right Now or No Love Allowed. Overall there's no tracks I hate, very good album :love:

[Saph]

I find that if I remove (feat. David Guetta) I like Right Now more :p

[Jordan.]

1. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
2. Diamonds
3. Pour It Up
4. No Love Allowed
5. Half Of Me
6. Jump
7. Right Now
8. Nobodys Business
9. Phresh Out The Runway
10. Lost In Paradise
11. Stay
---------------------
Deleted :idc:
Numb
What Now
Get It Over With
What Now

I like all of the top 10, not really listened to Stay much.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary is so boring though :laugh:

[Doogle]

Love Without Tragedy is amazing
Mother Mary is a bit meh, far too long

Also why all the hate for Numb and Get It Over With :sad:

[Saph]

Diamonds is up 7 to #3 on the uktop40

[reece(:]

Numb is much better than LTWYL

[Saph]

Styled To Rock has been picked up for a second season on The Style Network

[Doogle]

Numb is much better than LTWYL

:worship:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Love The Way You Lie :yuk:
Part II was the only song I hated Loud.

[Saph]

the Loud Tour Live in London will be available on DVD Dec 18th
http://www.amazon.com/Rihanna-Loud-Tour-Live-02/dp/B00AAQ7LP6

[Me. I Am Salman]

A warning to those who don't know
this is on the DVD
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4o8jCc0V1r3vccgo1_500.jpg

D:

[Saph]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4o8jCc0V1r3vccgo1_500.jpg

D:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m57rdwJW0t1qii6tmo1_500.gif

[Me. I Am Salman]

here's some of the DVD

YixA75JH668

SKIP 12:25 - 13:54

[Saph]

http://cdn.thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/article-2244236-16626877000005DC-489_634x631-1.jpeg

It may be hard to believe, but seven years have passed since the arrival of Island belle Rihanna, storming the charts with her debut single ‘Pon De Replay’- released May 4th 2005.

Fast forward to today and she’s Pop’s most consistent staple, well on her way to matching commercial feats scored by many of the acts she herself grew up listening.

Now, in honor of her unique rise to fame, the star has shared a picture of herself, taken on the day she auditioned for the man who would introduce her to future boss’ Jay Z and Jay Brown, Evan Rogers.
Rihanna
@rihanna
#throwbackRiRi the day I met and sang for Evan Rogers of SRP after school, my life has never been the same s instagr.am/p/S53FYlhM8o/

cute

[Saph]

is she dressed as a police woman :s

[Me. I Am Salman]

I hated Pon De Replay when it came out :laugh:

[Saph]

me two :laugh:

[Saph]

me two :laugh:

ew why did I write 'too' as 'two'

[Saph]

Chart News@chartnews
WW sales: @rihanna, Unapologetic 251,000 (743,000 total).

nearly at the 1m mark :D

[Me. I Am Salman]

ew why did I write 'too' as 'two'

I thought it was a pun :suspect:

[Me. I Am Salman]

I remember it was around the end of January (around 2 months after it released) TTT surpassed 2 million sales worldwide.

[Saph]

as of now her album sales WW are

GGGB = 7,200,000
Loud = 5,800,000
RR = 3,600,000
TTT = 3,500,000
AGLM = 3,300,000
MOTS = 1,000,000
Una = 740,000

[armand.kay]

I hate to say this but my Favorited on the album is 'Nobodys Business'.

[Doogle]

On an unrelated note I went into my room earlier to find my Mum had found a bunch of old games and CDs somewhere and she put them all on my bed to sort out and LOUD was among them :amazed:

[Saph]

Well I hope you bounded over to the cd player and blasted it on full volume ??

[Doogle]

You know it

I found my CD player and everything, was blasting Cheers for some time tbh

[Saph]

:amazed:

[Saph]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/09/article-2245345-166D0C14000005DC-475_634x425.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/09/article-2245345-166D0B44000005DC-459_634x480.jpg

love this woman :love:

[Saph]

has anyone watched that live at the O2 thing that came with the deluxe edition? Its really good :love: its more behind the scenes than actual performing.

[Saph]

rumor has it that Rihanna wants to take time out of the music business to get married and have a baby with Chris Brown.

ew.

[Brother Leon]

Can't fight Breezy's charm :worship:

[Me. I Am Salman]

I love this album more than ever before now

1. What Now
2. Right Now
3. No Love Allowed
4. Diamonds
5. Pour It Up
6. Jump
7. Nobody's Business
8. Numb
9. Stay

-------------

songs I don't care about and can go in any order

Loveeeeeeeeee Song
Phresh Off The Runway
Get It Over With
Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary
Lost In Paradise

[Saph]

I like all except LWT/MM and Loveeeee song

[Me. I Am Salman]

and I've decided Unapologetic > TTT

Good Girl Gone Bad > Loud > A Girl Like Me > Unapologetic > Talk That Talk > Music of the Sun >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the **** stain on her career that was Rated R

[Doogle]

Fire Bomb judges u

[Me. I Am Salman]

We Ride >

[Saph]

One day when rihanna dies of an overdose at age 37 you'll love Rated R :hmph:

Rated r > Loud > GGGB > Una > TTT > aglm/mots

[Saph]

http://cdn.thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rihanna-letter-unapologetic-thatgrapejuice-e1355417015204.jpg

[Me. I Am Salman]

I like her handwriting

[Saph]

Stay is Rihannas 24th uk top 10 :worship:

1. Pon De Replay #2
2. SOS #2
3. Unfaithful #2
4. Umbrella #1
5. Shut Up And Drive #5
6. Dont Stop The Music #4
7. Take A Bow #1
8. Disturbia #3
9. Russian Roulette #2
10. Rude Boy #2
11. Only Girl In The World #1
12. Whats My Name #1
13. S&M #3
14. California King Bed #8
15. We Found Love #1
16. Where Have You Been #6
17. Diamonds #1
18. Stay #6

19. Live Your Life #2
20. Run This Town #1
21. Love The Way You Lie #2
22. Whos That Chick #6
23. Take Care #9
24. Princess Of China #4

[Me. I Am Salman]

:worship:

[Me. I Am Salman]

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/84778685/The+Singles+Collection+Rihanna+Singles+Collection. jpg

found that on last.fm :joker:

[Saph]

the Loud DVD is out today

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/425679_10151300871861676_103138877_n.jpg

first one to send me a torrent wins my love

[Me. I Am Salman]

Loud :worship:

[Iceman]

Do you want me to edit the thread title, just while im online I thought i'd ask.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Nope that's ok :)

[Saph]

Hey boy I really wanna see if you can go down town with a girl like me. bump.

[Me. I Am Salman]

mods please sticky this immediately.

[Saph]

:worship:

[Jordan.]

Can't believe how well Stay is doing it'd be top 2 if it wasn't for charity singles :bored:

[Jords]

I love you Ri

[Me. I Am Salman]

What Now > Stay

[Saph]

Charity singles are the worst :bored:

[armand.kay]

Loveeeee song makes me wanna kill myself why was it aloud on the album http://www.messentools.com/images/emoticones/frutas/www.MessenTools.com-Frutas-static01.gif

[Saph]

Chart News@chartnews
WW sales: @rihanna, Unapologetic 274,000 (1,245,000 total).

sold over 1 mil

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x4DVN6831ow/TjBZDXZw7fI/AAAAAAAACC0/ixQkpRZWCDA/s1600/r3.jpg

[Me. I Am Salman]

Didn't it ages ago :suspect:

[Saph]

nope

[Saph]

not bad considering TTT only reached 1 mil in feb I think

[Me. I Am Salman]

Stay at #4 :amazed:

[Saph]

:worship:

[Saph]

technically Justice Collective and James Arthur don't count because they're charity songs and are **** so its #2 :')

[Me. I Am Salman]

Agreed the Justice Collective can go shove all the money they raised up their arse

[Me. I Am Salman]

arses*

[Saph]

that song will flop next week anyway when everyone realizes they don't care, so Stay might even chart higher ..maybe/hopefully.

[Me. I Am Salman]

agreed and marina & the diamonds sorry paloma faith sorry bitch no1curr about can fade back into obscurity

[Saph]

paloma should give up tbh

[Doogle]

It'll drop fast. Impossible will slightly go down so I think Scream & Shout might get it. Stay is probably going to get blocked unless it can stay high on iTunes until the video is released

[Saph]

She better make a good video.. not like the Diamonds one which she shot in about 8 minutes :suspect: S+S deserve #1 if only for 1 week so my dream chart would be...

Dec 31st
#1 Scream + Shout / will.i.am, Britney
#2 Stay / Rihanna
#3 Impossible / Shontelle (high climber..)

Jan 7th
#1 Stay / Rihanna
#2 S+S / will/Brit
#3 Impossible / Shontelle

and then Stay stays as #1 for a few weeks/months

[Doogle]

Until Beyonce releases her song and gets 83 weeks at #1

[Saph]

Rihanna has donated 1.75 mil to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Rihanna is one generous gal.

Yeah, in her latest bid to honor her home nation of Barbados and the legacy of her grandparents, the singer donated $1.75 million worth of equipment to Barbados’ ‘Queen Elizabeth Hospital’.

Making the donation under the Clara Lionel Foundation, set up in honor of her grandparents- Clara and Lionel Braithwaite, she told E!:

“This was my way of giving back to Barbados, in a form of philanthropy, by assisting the QEH in its continued modernization program. “I believe that this will have a huge impact on the people of Barbados. This was all done to save lives or at least extend them.”

[Me. I Am Salman]

such an inspiration :worship:

[Marc]

I really like 'Stay' :love:

[Jords]

good ol Rih

[Marc]

Didn't even know Stay was a single and was being released, I only just heard it

[Me. I Am Salman]

I really like 'Stay' :love:

Go listen to What Now, so much better :love:

[Jordan.]

I deleted What Now after the first day... let me relisten to it.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Well you're missing out

[Jordan.]

No it's staying deleted, pure filler :suspect:

[Me. I Am Salman]

:bored: it's the best song on the album