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The wait is ova - for one of the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history, as multi-platinum, award-winning Def Jam recording artist Rihanna announces the completion of her fourth original studio album, Rated R, scheduled to arrive in the physical and digital marketplace on Monday, November 23rd.The "Russian Roulette" video, directed by Anthony Mandler, will premiere in prime-time on ABC.

"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 The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Chase & Status, Stargate, Justin Timberlake and more.

Rated R is the long-awaited follow-up to Good Girl Gone Bad (May 2007), 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" (featur­ing Ne-Yo), and "Don't Stop the Music." Good Girl Gone Bad spent 98 total weeks on the Soundscan chart, 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."

Good Girl Gone Bad was the third album release in less than two years by the 21-year old Barbados native Rihanna. It followed-up 2006's RIAA platinum A Girl Like Me, which contained the back-to-back hits, "S.O.S." and "Unfaithful"; and her RIAA gold debut from 2005, Music Of the Sun, featuring the world-wide smash, "Pon De Replay."

User Reviews about Rated R

Sounds like all of her other cd's. I like maybe 5 songs. Rude boy is my favorite song on this cd as it is great to get my hyped when I workout. -- Typical Rhianna

i enjoyed "the wait is over" "russion roulette" "so hard" "te amo" and "cold case love" but songs like "G4l" are just plain ridiculous. this little spoon fed girl wouldn't last a minute with a real gangter and is just sending a stupid message to young women. never the less rihanna shows that she's growing as an artist and thats always a good sign especially since i thought her last album was horrible. if she keeps heading in this creative direction she can really make a name for herself. she just needs to sing about better subject matter! -- some really good songs and some really bad ones

This cd is definitely "Rated R". I was a little dissappointed, but just a little. I think Rhianna is trying to be too hard and bad a--. A little goes a long way. The music is good, but her lyrics need some improving. -- It's ok...

I love Rihanna's new album Rated R. I bought this CD at Target. I love her songs, like Madhouse, Hard (feat. Jeezy), Wait Your Turn, Rockstar 101 (feat. Slash), Russian Roulette, and The Last Song. Say hello to Rihanna's new album Rated R. Buy this album! -- Rated R is the best album ever!

Not that I'm surprised, but this CD was excellent! Every song on it is great and I can listen to it over and over again! Great for working out to also! -- Awesome CD