Trivia

In the United Kingdom, she became the only female; and the only artist in 52 years to have three top ten songs at once on the "UK Official Chart". She also became the first female artist; in the history of the chart, to have a number one in five consecutive years.

She's the highest paid female celebrity to be seated front row at fashion shows. She's paid an estimated $100,000, followed by Beyoncé, who is estimated at $80,000.

While filming a music video for her song "We Found Love" in Ireland, the farmer whose land was borrowed as a setting for the video, asked the crew to stop filming and leave the land after he objected to Rihanna's revealing outfits and state of undress, which he deemed as "inappropriate". (2011)

She was tagged "The Digital Download Queen" on account of her songs being downloaded over 75,000,000 times combined.

Was signed onto Def Jam Recordings at age 16.

Organised a bachelorette party for her close friend Katy Perry. (2010)

Her father is from Barbados and her mother is from Guyana. Rihanna's paternal grandfather, Reginald Leslie Forde, was of Afro-Bajan ancestry, and Rihanna's paternal grandmother, Betty Fenty, who is Caucasian, has English, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Rihanna's mother is of Afro-Guyanese ancestry.

She was arrested on August 17, 2005 in Berlin, Germany for not having a visa to enter the country. She was taken into custody for two hours before being released with a temporary visa.

Broke her own record by scoring her seventh US number one. "Love the Way You Lie" with rapper Eminem became her seventh number one single in five years. This gives her the most number ones from an artist in the last 10 years.

According to Fashion Lifestyle, she has had over 150 hairstyles since her music career became successful (2005). Her trademarks are her Long Straight Brown (2006), Medium Length Black Bob (2007) and Short Cropped look (2008).

Ranked #4 on Forbes The Celebrity 100 in 2012, with earnings of $53 million.

Her controversial music video for "S&M", was banned in 11 countries within a day of its release. This is Rihanna's second video to cause controversy as "Te Amo" was banned in many countries on account of its same-sex nature.

At the 2011 BET Awards, Rihanna was mistakenly announced as the winner of the Viewer's Choice Award. The actual winner was her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who later received the award.

Rihanna stated in an interview that her friend and former Island Def Jam Music Group artist Fefe Dobson was someone that she admired and looked up to, having a fellow black artist writing, singing, and performing the music she truly loves.

Became the youngest black female to grace the cover of American-Vogue magazine. (March 2011)

The song "S&M" featuring Britney Spears became her 10th No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. The song "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris became her 11th No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.

Is worth an estimated $143 million [Forbes magazine]. (February 2011)

Is a huge fan of Depeche Mode, The Prodigy, Chase & Status and Chris Brown. She worked with Chase & Status on her album "Rated R" (2009) after calling up member Saul Milton at 3 a.m.

Her third studio album "Good Girl Gone Bad" (2007) was the third highest selling album in the world in 2007 and was the eighth highest in 2008. It has sold just under eight million copies worldwide and has spawned three number one Hot 100 hits and two worldwide number ones.

Was on the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine (both 2012 and 2018).

Her third single "Rude Boy", from her fourth studio album "Rated R" (2009), became her sixth American number one single. This makes her the most successful female artist of the last 10 years.

On August 29, 2009, her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling as a result of his attack on her on February 8, 2009.

She has seven number one singles in Australia as of February 2011, making her the only non-Australian artist to do so in the last 20 years.

Billboard magazine named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade.

Rihanna and then-boyfriend Chris Brown canceled their performance at the Grammy Awards just hours before the show started after Brown was caught up in a late-night domestic dispute, which later turned out to be a physical attack on Rihanna. (February 2009)

Her fifth studio album "Loud" (2010), sold 2.8 million copies worldwide in three months. The album also marks the launch of her business "Rihanna Entertainment". (February 2011)

Has attained nine number one Hot 100 singles. Three of them were achieved in 2010. She become the only female in American history to have her first single to go number one after the second. (February 2011)

In the 2011 Billboard online poll, Rihanna's song "We Found Love" was voted as the third Best Music Video for 2011 (receiving 11% of all votes), behind "Till the World Ends" by Britney Spears (45% of all votes), and "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga (23% of all votes). Rihanna also won for Best Awards Show Performance with Britney Spears at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.

Performed Mariah Carey's inspirational song "Hero" at her school's talent show.

Attended Combermere which is a sixth form school similar to high school in America.

She has two younger brothers, Rorrey Fenty and Rajad Fenty, two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father's side, each born to dissimilar mothers from previous relationships.

In 2012, she collaborated with Chris Brown. On February 20, 2012 (her 24th birthday), Rihanna released the remix of her fourth single "Birthday Cake" featuring Chris Brown. The single comes from her album "Talk That Talk". Brown also released a remix of his song "Turn Up the Music" featuring Rihanna.

Friends with Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Good friends with Katy Perry.

Q magazine named her one of the top 100 acts of the last century. (November 2009)

She was included in FHM magazine's list of '100 Sexiest Women in the World' in 2008 (#11), 2009 (#43), 2010 (#43), 2011 (#3), 2012 (#3), 2013 (#2) and 2014 (#3); Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2007 (#8), 2008 (#15), 2009 (#8), 2010 (#6), 2011 (#22), 2012 (#32), 2013 (#3), 2014 (#11), 2015 (#31), 2016 (#85), 2018 (#85), 2019 (#76), 2022 (#84) and 2023 (#84); and was named Esquire magazine's 'Sexiest Woman Alive' on October 12, 2011.

Selling 62 million records since 2005, she's the most successful artist over the last decade. She's also the first ever artist ever to have five, 3X platinum selling digital singles.

According to Forbes magazine, she made an estimated $15,000,000. (2008)

Attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School in Bridgetown, Barbados.

As of March 1, 2011, she has reached over 1.2 billion YouTube views on her official Vevo page.

Sampled Michael Jackson's 1983 song "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" in her 2007 song "Don't Stop the Music".

Has appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia magazine for their "Extreme Couture" edition. (September 2009)

Is a huge fan of the television series Breaking Bad (2008) and Bates Motel (2013). She also watches a great deal of reality television shows, and her father introduced her into Star Trek while growing up.

Is a self-confessed huge fan of the Star Trek franchise. In 2016, she released her single "Sledgehammer", which was used to promote Star Trek Beyond (2016), the third film in the Star Trek reboot series. The music video for the single was the first to be recorded entirely with IMAX cameras.

In her article in the August 2012 issue of "Harper's Bazaar", she said that, growing up, she watched horror movies and professional wrestling, saying the Undertaker was her favorite. This is actually appropriate, since the Undertaker (Mark Calaway) is a horror-themed wrestler.

In 2012, Rihanna founded the Clara Lionel Foundation Scholarship Program, a non-profit organization named after her grandmother and grandfather for students attending college in the United States and from Caribbean countries including Barbados.

Celebrities who have copied, matched or gotten tattoos similar to Rihanna include Lena Dunham, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Drake, Lily Allen and Lindsay Lohan. In real life, many fans have gotten replicas of her sternum tattoo.

With 14 Billboard Hot 100 number one hits so far, she has more hits than any contemporary artist. If she hypothetically gets five more, she will beat Mariah Carey's record, and if she gets seven more, she will beat The Beatles' record and will have the most number one singles of all time.

Was upset that she was forced to miss the wedding of Katy Perry because of her recording schedule. Rihanna and Perry have maintained a close relationship for a number of years, and she even planned Perry's bachelorette party. Perry went on record to say that while she (Perry) was a little upset that Rihanna could not make it, no one was more upset than Rihanna herself.

On February 28, 2017, she received the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On September 20, 2018, she was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary by the government of Barbados, with special duties promoting education, touring and investment for the island.