While Rihanna’s new single “Russian Roulette” rockets up the charts, Def Jam is capitalizing on its golden goose by releasing a 3-CD collector’s package featuring the hits that made her famous.

The box set, due December 15, contains her first three albums, Music of the Sun, A Girl Like Me, and Good Girl Gone Bad, with space for a fourth disc, Rated R, which will be released on November 23.

Among the tracks included are “Umbrella,” “S.O.S.,” “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia,” “Pon De Replay,” “Hate That I Love You,” “Don’t Stop the Music,” and “Unfaithful.”

Source: Rap-Up.com

Rihanna’s official website has been update with the following news:

• Want the chance to join an exclusive listening party for Rihanna’s new album Rated R before its release on November 23rd? For just one tweet you can gain access to the exclusive stream of the entire, highly anticipated new album from Rihanna and chat on Twitter with fellow fans about it. Click back here Friday to hear it first!

• Best Buy Union Square In Store Signing: 5 pm – New York City
  Your Chance to Meet Rihanna in Person! Monday Nov 23 Best Buy | Union Square NYC
  Be one of the first customers to purchase her new CD RATED R beginning at 8:00 AM on Monday at Best Buy Union Square to obtain your wristband for a very special event later that day: RIHANNA signing copies of her highly anticipated Def Jam album RATED R beginning at 5:00 PM! That’s Monday, November 23rd @ 5:00 PM @ Best Buy Union Square in NYC! Hurry, space and time are limited.

• In the New York City area on Tuesday, Nov 24th? You could be in VIP for Rihanna’s Good Morning America performance! Text RiGMA to 66937 and enter to win! Msg&Data rates may apply.

As Rodrigo promised, here’s a video made by Universal Music Brazil showing the “Rated R” booklet. Of course you won’t understand what the woman is talking, but it’s not that important :P.

Click here to watch the video! Since we don’t have the embed code, watch it at the brazilian MTV page.

Thoughts?

• MadHouse posted another backstage video minutes before Rihanna’s show in Lodon. Click here to watch RihMix Episode 2!
• Are you going to be in the New York City area on Tuesday, Nov 24th? You could be in VIP for Rihanna’s Good Morning America performance! Text RiGMA to 66937 and enter to win! Msg&Data rates may apply.
• 6 hours ago Ryan Seacrest posted on his Twitter (thnx paraNoidMijo):

Btw rihanna on radio show tomorrow. Any messages for her? Any thing u really still want ti know…hit me back. Good night

Rihanna’s official website has a new layout, and we’re in love with it! Check out RihannaNow.com!

There’s a video of an exclusive all-access peek at Rihanna and her crew behind the scenes during the photo shoot for Rated R. Warning – it’s HOT!

Transmitting 24/7, Rihannanow is ground zero for everything Rihanna! Check back frequently for exclusive looks, listens and special fan offers you won’t find anywhere else.

Check back, lots of stuff is coming soon!

UPDATE: Watch the video on YouTube:

Music superstar Rihanna will be the featured host of The iTunes Download with Alex Luke this weekend. In this rare radio appearance, Rihanna will join Luke to discuss her musical influences and play her favorite music from her iPod.

Nationally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, The iTunes Download with Alex Luke is a two-hour weekend music show airing on Top 40 radio stations nationwide. Each week, master of ceremonies and iTunes Director of Music Programming Alex Luke welcomes celebrities and entertainers from all walks of life to host the program with him and give listeners an inside look at their music downloads, as well as the music on their iPods. Recent guests have included The Fray, Shannon Elizabeth, One Republic, Jason DeRulo, Jesse McCartney and others. Additional information about the show can be found at www.theiTunesDownload.com

Pictured left to right: Alex Luke and Rihanna at the Villa Lounge in West Hollywood, Calif., where they recorded the program

Rihanna spent more than $50,000 to fly her family to New York to celebrate her Glamour Award as a thank-you for supporting her through tough times.

She flew in her mom, Monica Fenty, plus her brothers and aunts from her native Barbados to watch her pick up the Woman of the Year Award in an emotional ceremony at Carnegie Hall Monday night. Afterward, the songbird introduced them to Iman, Serena Williams, Tyra Banks and fashion designer Stella McCartney.

Rihanna said during her tearful acceptance speech, “I really look up to my gran and my mom. They are my two women of the year . . . Without their unconditional love and guidance, I wouldn’t be here.”

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Today on GMA abuse survivors reacted to Diane Sawyer’s Rihanna interview. “She’s acknowledging being beaten,” said one woman, “It makes me so angry when people think about abuse as an isolated incident. It’s a pattern of behavior.”

Click here to watch the video.

Thanks, Natasha!

Rihanna doesn’t take bubbly from strangers. While hanging out with a gaggle of assistants and singer James Blunt at a party thrown by Vegas nightclub The Bank at Wonderland in LA, the songstress was sent a $10,000 bottle of Champagne by Jets receiver Braylon Edwards and a handful of his teammates, who were at a nearby table. But according to a partygoer,

“She didn’t know who they were, so she sent it back.”

Edwards’ rep says Braylon later introduced himself and all was well. Also at the club was Mickey Rourke entertaining his girlfriend’s mother from Russia.

Source: DailyFill.com

Friday’s interview with Rihanna sent ratings for ABC’s “20/20″ soaring.

The newsmagazine notched a 2.7 rating/9 share among adults 18-49 at 10 p.m. Friday, dramatically higher than the show’s usual Nielsen number (in recent weeks, a 1.6). It was by far the top-rated show of the night in the key demographic, and the best adults 18-49 performance by the newsmag in nine months.

The chat proved particularly potent with viewers 18-34, giving “20/20″ its best ratings in that demo (2.3/9) in nearly three years.

Among all viewers, “20/20″ was seen by 8.18 million people, winning its 10 p.m. timeslot by a hair over CBS’s “Numbers” (8 million). NBC’s 9 p.m. installment of “Law & Order” was Friday’s No. 1 show in viewers, bringing in 8.4 million pairs of eyeballs.