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| December 13, 2006 |
| Rihanna caps huge year with 4 Billboard Music Awards |
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 The tidal wave of industry acclaim for Def Jam recording artist Rihanna, her platinum second album A Girl Like Me and its back-to-back #1 Hot 100 and Hot Dance anthems of 2006, “S.O.S.” and “Unfaithful” – reached a new high at Monday night’s Billboard Music Awards.
Rihanna carried away four top awards, including Female Artist of the Year, Female Hot 100 Artist of the Year, Female Pop 100 Artist of the Year, and Hot Dance Airplay Song of the Year for “S.O.S.”
Following in the footsteps of “Unfaithful” and “S.O.S.,” her newest single, “Break It Off” is skyrocketing up the US pop charts. The single is already at # 37 bullet on Billboard’s HOT 100 chart, with over 3200 spins and 30 million in audience.
Rihanna wrapped up a whirlwind 3-week European tour with the Pussycat Dolls that took them to the continent's biggest cities . The tour climaxed with a pandemonium-filled Friday night at Wembley Arena in London on December 1st. Rihanna returns to Europe on December 12th, when she will be the special musical performer at the Nobel Prize Awards in Oslo. After performing on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve spectacular, Rihanna will return to the U.K. and Ireland for another two weeks of shows, starting January 27th in Cardiff, Wales.
The Billboard Music Awards cap a gigantic year for Rihanna, who has collected a shelf of awards as 2006 comes to a close:
America’s Teen Choice Awards’ Breakthrough Female Artist and R&B Artist of the year;
Canada’s Much Music Award as Best International Artist;
MTV Europe Music Award as Best R&B Artist;
The European MOBO (Musicians of Black Origin) Award as Best R&B Artist;
Japan’s MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in A Video for last year’s “Pon de Replay”;
The BMI Urban Awards tribute for “Pon de Replay”;
The World Music Awards honor as the Best Selling Barbados Artist.
In addition, the BET Music Awards nominated Rihanna for Best New Artist. The MTV VMAs (U.S.) nominated Rihanna for Best New Artist in a Video and for the Viewers’ Choice Award. MTV Europe Awards nominations included Best New Act and Best New Song for “S.O.S.” And there was an MTV Australia Awards nomination for Best Dance Video.
Rihanna’s homeland of Barbados showered her with 8 major awards: Best Dance Single for “Pon de Replay”; Best Reggae/Dancehall Album for Music of the Sun; Album of the Year for Music of the Sun; Song of the Year for “Pon de Replay”; Best New Artist; Female Artist of the Year; Best Selling Female Artist of the Year; and Entertainer of the Year.
A Girl Like Me is the follow-up to Rihanna’s RIAA gold debut album of last year, Music Of the Sun, which featured her #1 Dance hit “Pon De Replay,” a traffic-stopper in the U.S. and Europe that was certified a triple-platinum digital download by the RIAA. With its infectious taste of “Tainted Love” (the Soft Cell classic), “S.O.S.” became Rihanna’s second worldwide phenomenon – hitting #1 in the U.S. and Canada, the Japanese International chart, the Australian singles chart, and European airplay chart.
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