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Rhianna 's new guitarist - Nuno Bettencourt
During the summer, Rihanna collaborated with rapper Eminem on "Love the Way You Lie", which reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as other countries like Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. The song was Rihanna's seventh number-one hit single on the Hot 100 of her career, making her the female artist with the fifth-most number-ones in the chart's history. In August, 2010, a wax figure of Rihanna was unveiled in Madame Tussauds in Washington D.C..

Rihanna will release her fifth studio album, Loud, on November 16, 2010.
Its lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", was digitally released in the United States in September 2010.[78] In its second week, the song jumped to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one in Canada and Australia.[79] She also released a self-titled book,[80] and is currently working on Peter Berg's film, Battleship, scheduled for release in 2012.[81] On October 20, 2010, Rihanna announced that she was parting ways with manager Marc Jordan and will henceforth be managed by Jay-Z's Roc Nation Management.[82] She is also starting her own company, Rihanna Entertainment, in which she will "merge all of her businesses including music, film, fragrance, fashion and book ventures".

Volume 65 of the Contemporary Black Biography book series notes that "Rihanna is the rare rhythm and blues (R&B) diva to emerge from the Caribbean world."[83] Becoming an international sensation, Rihanna is known for blending R&B with Caribbean music, such as reggae and dancehall. Peter Coulter of the Antrim Times commented that "[Rihanna] has an amazing voice which showed during her acoustic set, she just needs to work on her audience engagement during live shows." At the time of her debut, reviewers referred to her as a "bubblegum queen" and her music to "teen pop." Larry Meyler of The Sun stated that "Rihanna going bad is very good" and that she had "[shaken] off any "teen pop" image as she rocked the stage.]While performing at the Ottawa Bluesfest, Denis Armstrong of Canadian Online Explorer commented on her performance saying "her show was a Disney-esque choreographed fantasy of non-stop hip-swivelling, sassy attitude and personal endearments and a string of funky, sugar-free hits." After revealing a new image while headlining her first tour, she was likely to be criticized for her tight leather outfit during each show.[88] A review in The Times compared Rihanna's stage wardrobe styling to that of Janet Jackson. He described her outfit as "a vision of Ann Summers couture in thigh-high boots and a few scraps of black PVC. Stuart Derdeyn of The Province commented that "even with the whole haute couture B&D clearly firing on all points, she's still got a ways to go to become the new Janet Jackson.
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