Where: LG Arena, The NEC, Birmingham 
When: FRIDAY, 07/05/2010, doors at 18:30,
starts at 19:30
Music superstar and Grammy Award winner Rihanna will be embarking upon a full UK
arena tour in May 2010.
Having released her fourth studio album - one of
the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history- Rated R, Rihanna will
be returning to the UK to wow fans nationwide with a full UK arena tour. The
long-awaited follow-up to her 2007 smash Good Girl Gone Bad which contained the
non-stop string of hit singles that began with the MTV VMA and Grammy
Award-winning global #1 hit “Umbrella” (featuring Jay-Z), then “Shut Up and
Drive,” “Hate That I Love You” (featur¬ing Ne-Yo), and “Don't Stop the Music.”
Good Girl Gone Bad went 5x Platinum in the UK, earned cumulative sales of more
than 36-times platinum in at least 20 territories around the world, and spun off
the CD+DVD package Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded (January 2009) – which continued
the string of hits with the #1 “Take A Bow,” and the #1
“Disturbia.”
Rated R’s first single pick, “Russian Roulette” was written
and produced by fellow Def Jam artist Ne-Yo, whose long track record with
Rihanna includes the #1 hit “Unfaithful” (2006, from A Girl Like Me), their Top
10 duet “Hate That I Love You” (2007, from Good Girl Gone Bad), and #1 pop/ #1
R&B “Take A Bow” (2008, from Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded). In addition to
Ne-Yo, other producers and writers on Rihanna’s new album include the team of
Chase & Status, Stargate, Justin Timberlake, The-Dream and Tricky Stewart
and more. Incl Will:iam
Rihanna also teamed up with Jay-Z on the first
single off his latest album ‘The Blue Print 3’ (released in September this year
via Roc Nation) which reached number 1 in the UK singles chart. The rapper also
joined Rihanna at her Nokia album launch performance recently to perform the
track to an ecstatic, packed out Brixton Academy.
