Rihanna becomes the top selling R&B/ HipHop artist in the UK – Music News

Rihanna becomes the top selling R&B/ HipHop artist in the UK – Music News

The Official Chart Company (OCC), which compiles various music charts in UK such as UK Singles Chart, UK Official Download Chart, the  "official" UK UK Albums Chart, charts about specific genres and music videos. Quite recently, the OCC revealed the final
R&B/Hip Hop Songs tally, which showed that the Barbadian pop singer Rihanna was the biggest selling “R&B” artist of the year 2011.

According to the official release of OCC, Rihanna’s "Only Girl (In The World)" (no.19), "What’s My Name?" (no.11) and "S&M" were placed in the top 20. Later on, "S&M," ended up being her best selling single, and came in just behind "On The Floor" by Jennifer
Lopez and Pitbull at no.2.

Hence, the pop diva Rihanna emerged as year’s best selling artist with top three singles and albums. It is true that, in the recent years, she has piping back to back music album at a real rapid pace but you gotta admit that she never failed to impressive.
She produced hits after hits and took the music industry by storm with her songs. She has not taken a break in past few years but she has given some quality hits to the world.

This distinction for Rihanna isn’t necessarily surprising, considering her recent 2 billion views accumulated on Vevo and the success of "We Found Love".

As such, Rihanna’s "Loud" and "Talk That Talk" have been branded the top selling R&B/Hip Hop Albums of 2011, respectively.

In comparison, Beyonce follows aptly at no.4 on the albums tally with "4". JLS (Jukebox, no.7), Chris Brown (F.A.M.E., no. 9) and Katy B (On a Mission, no.10) round out the top 10.

Currently, she has been making shocking waves with her album, Talk that Talk. Her latest album features songs such as “Cheers”, “You Da One”, “Talk that Talk” , which are getting a lot of air time on the radio and TV channels.

Good luck Rihanna, you are the Go. Never stop!

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