News: Rihanna set for Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica
Jamaican reggae music fans will get the chance to see Barbados native Rihanna in performance at this year's staging of Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest. She is scheduled to perform on Saturday July 22 the final night of the festival which is dubbed The Summit.
Rihanna's sophomore album A Girl Like Me debuted two weeks ago at number five and number two respectively on Billboard's 200 and R&B Hip Hop album charts. Her first album Music of the Sun debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200. Rihanna also has the number one song in America as SOS (Rescue Me) removed Daniel Powter's Bad Day from the top of the Hot 100 chart.
Rihanna didn't top the Billboard Hot 100 on her first trip with Pon de Replay last summer. However the tune did manage to hit the top of Billboard's Dance Music Club Play chart. Now her third single SOS (Rescue Me) is also number one on Billboard's Dance Music Club Play chart. Rihanna is the first Barbados native to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, since 2001 when Barbados native Rayvon, teamed up with Jamaica's Shaggy for the chart topper Angel.
Like Angel, SOS (Rescue Me) is a sampled hit. Angel sampled Merilee Rush's 1960's hit Angel of the Morning, while SOS samples the 1981 hit Tainted Love by the British duo Soft Cell. SOS now ranks among the six songs with the shortest titles to have topped the Billboard pop chart.
Rihanna's "SOS" notches a third week atop the Billboard Hot 100 this week. The cut also remains No. 1 on the Pop 100 and Hot Digital Songs charts for the same span. Daniel Powter's former Hot 100 chart-topper "Bad Day" sticks to No. 2 there and leads the Adult Contemporary chart for a fourth week.
Some more chart news for fans of red hot Rihanna, the eighteen year old singer's SOS which galloped from number 34 to number one, is the second biggest jump to number one. In 2002, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson rocked from number 52 to number one with A Moment like This.
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