Groove Magazine Zimbabwe Issue 1 | Page 31

BILLBOARD CHARTS:RIHANNA’S #1 HITS SOS (2006) 1 Week Take A Bow (2008) 3 Weeks Disturbia (2008) 3 Weeks Live Your Life (2008) 2 Weeks Rude Boy (2010) 2 Weeks Love the Way You Lie (2010) 2 Weeks Only Girl (In the World) (2010) 3 Weeks S&M (2011) 1 Week We found love (2011) 8 Weeks Stay (2013) “Talk that Talk”, “We all want love”, “Drunk on love” and “Roc me out”. •“Shaffer Chimere Smith, popularly known as Ne-yo, wrote “Unfaithful”, “Take a bow”, “I hate that I love you”, “Russian roulette” and “Stupid in love”. • The eerie “Disturbia”, was written by former boyfriend, Chris Brown • “Rehab” was written by Justin Timberlake and produced by Timbaland. RiRi has proved that she has the qualities of a long standing artist and she is not going anywhere, anytime soon. Like Janet Jackson and Madonna, she has the ability to evolve her image and music, something very few artists can achieve. She’s achieved success as a reggae, R&B, pop and techno-dance artist. Her hairstyles and hair colour also have made her quite a trendsetter. RiRi’s star power is at four because of her daring nature when it comes to her career. RiRi’s Hit Songs • • Rihanna’s hit song “Umbrella’’ was written by Tarius “The Dream” Nash. This song actually set off The Dream’s song-writing career, making him the most sought after song-writers in the business. Ester Dean wrote and cowrote most of Rihanna’s songs on her “Loud”, “Talk that Talk” album. From the album “Rated R”, Ester wrote the hit song, Rude Boy”. Other hit songs include” What’s my name?”, “S&M”, “Fading”, “Complicated”, “You da one”, “Where have you been?”, Rihanna’s Star power She has managed to achieve success in a short space of time. Be it her edgy songs, her diverse hairstyles, or her bad girl persona, 29