Billboard singles reviews: Rihanna, Pink
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It took only one listen to recognize  that Rihanna&#39;s &quot;Umbrella&quot; was destined to command chart heavens  and become the red-hot ingenue&#39;s second Billboard Hot 100 No.  1, following &quot;SOS.&quot; With mission accomplished, the second  single from third album &quot;Good Girl Gone Bad,&quot; out June 5,  further demonstrates why the 19-year-old continues to  trailblaze as top 40&#39;s most consistent hitmaker. &quot;Shut Up and  Drive&quot; again sounds like nothing before it, opening with  grimacing guitars, a cagey sing-songy verse and a layered  chanting chorus (borrowing elements from New Order&#39;s &quot;Blue  Monday&quot;) that taunts, &quot;Start me up and watch me go, 0 to 60 in  3.5/You got the keys, shut up and drive.&quot; In short order,  Rihanna and an able collaborative stable have catapulted a  potential one-trick dancehall diva to the most dexterous singer  of the decade&#39;s second half.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three albums that reached stores  ahead of schedule will lead the next Billboard 200 chart and  raise the profile of hip-hop and R&B.
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Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous"  featuring Timbaland led the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for  a fourth week Thursday, while Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" held at  No. 2 but replaced Furtado atop the Hot Digital Songs chart.
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R&B star Rihanna spends her ninth week at number one with her single Umbrella, her biggest hit to date.
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Barbados-born singer Rihanna dominated the British pop market on Sunday, topping both the album and singles charts, according to the Official UK Charts Company. via The West Australian
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R&B star Rihanna's song Umbrella is the longest-running number one single in a decade with 10 weeks on top.
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Pink products- already popular with women and the fashion and beauty companies that cater to them - are everywhere this month. October is designated as National Breast Cancer
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Shania Twain's "Greatest Hits" and Toby Keith's "Greatest Hits 2" each have a shot of topping the next U.S. pop charts with sales of more 500,000 units or more, but Eminem could pip them at the post when data for the week ended Nov. 14 are released next Wednesday.
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Once upon a time, if you named any song in the Top 40, I could hum a few bars. So it was startling to scan Billboard's Top 40 recently and realize the extent of my cluelessness about pop music, circa 2006.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West looks set to win the closely watched duel with rival rapper 50 Cent for the No. 1 slot on next week's U.S. pop album chart, according to preliminary sales data issued Wednesday.
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Last night Billboard held its annual music awards show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. To the surprise of absolutely no one, the major winners of the night were Usher (with 11 tropies) and Alicia Keys, who took home seven awards.
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The Kaiser Chiefs rise to number one in the  UK singles chart, while Amy Winehouse's album is back on top.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Despite another week of tough  competition, Usher and Alicia Keys held onto the top slot of  Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth week in a row  with "My Boo."
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The Grammys have gone autobiographical. Kanye West raps about religion, his fears and his own greatness. Usher steamed up the charts with songs about sex, affairs and breakups. Alicia Keys sang about aching for love, confiding secrets and imagining a different future for herself.
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Before 2007 is out, Eve, Missy  Elliott, Foxy Brown, Trina, Shawnna and Remy Ma should have new  albums in stores, setting the stage for a banner year in the  world of female rap. For the long-suffering genre, that would  mean that more than two or three titles could finish in the top  100 of Billboard&#39;s year-end Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - R&B singer Rihanna's "Umbrella" and hip-hop trio Shop Boyz' "Party Like a Rockstar" claimed the top two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth consecutive week Thursday.
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Usher and Alicia Keys have something to celebrate besides the success of their collaboration on the single My Boo. The singers took home a cumulative 18 trophies from this weekâs Billboard awards, which were held at the glamorous MGM Grand in Las Vegas.