The O2

Music superstar and Grammy Award winner, Rihanna, today announces she will be embarking upon a full UK arena tour in May 2010.

As part of the tour Rihanna will be returning to The O2 on 10 May 2010 as her only London date. Rihanna previously played a sold out gig there in March 08.

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 launched on 20 October worldwide on www.rihannanow.com and is currently at number 2 in the UK charts. "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.

Rihanna is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing and talented artists of our time and this is guaranteed to be one of the hottest, most talked about spectacles of 2010.

For full tour dates visit www.rihannanow.com.

Tickets for Rihanna's show at The O2 go on sale 9am Friday 11 December priced £49.50 / £42.50 / £38.50 adv (subject to booking fee) and are available via www.theo2.co.uk or by calling 0844 856 0202.

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