She’s gifted modern pop music with some of its biggest hits, but now it’s time That Grape Juice gifts Rihanna – with an ode to her greatest performances just in time for her birthday.

Indeed, while some will argue the singer’s inconsistent live acts – featuring their fair share of stage presence shortages and poor vocal displays – make it a difficult task to collect a number of qualitative stage showings, there are a wealth of demonstrations that prove such is simply not the case.

Over the course of 10 years and 7 albums worth of material, Ri has a bevy of memorable moments on stage.  With her outstanding 2015 Grammy performance still fresh in our minds as evidence of her growing abilities, tuck in below to see our picks for the birthday girl’s best:

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Lil Wayne isn’t the only Hip Hop titan facing legal drama this year.

For this week has welcomed the arrival of developments in ongoing legal palava in the lives of Jay Z and ‘Stan’ lyricist Eminem.

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Cop a gander of Rita Ora!

The singer/actress serves demure diva on the cover of InStyle UK‘s April 2015 issue.

23-year-old Ora has been everywhere of late as she gears of up for the release of ‘Testosterone’, the lead single from her hotly anticipated new album (which will dub as her American debut).
Indeed, beyond this new feature, the star has been shining in her role as coach on The Voice UK and has  earned praise for her appearance in the new ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ movie.

Peep another snap below…

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With a new album nigh, Kanye West is ditching the reclusive aura that has defined him in recent years and stepping back into the media spotlight.

Following headline grabbing appearance at the Grammy Awards and an ostentatious New York Fashion Week presentation, Yeezy stopped by The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 this morning.

Renown for their no holds barred approach, hosts DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, and Angela Yee grilled the rapper on everything. As such, discussed was his relationship with Amber Rose and her recent scalping of wife Kim Kardashian, the Beyonce-Beck Grammy rant, his new music, and much more.

Watch the insightful chat below…

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He may have presented the project as a mixtape, but this week has seen the confirmation of news that Drake‘s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ isn’t a mixtape at all…it’s an album.

Full story below…

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2015 hasn’t set off to the best of starts for Pop feline Nicole Scherzinger.

For, it appears the singer isn’t only severing ties in her private life but also in her professional endeavours.

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The time is almost nigh for Tamia fans!

As reported, the R&B songbird’s new single ‘Sandwich And A Soda’ is set to hatch any day now.

Following the unwrapping of a brief snippet, the Canadian bred beauty has unveiled the cut’s accompanying cover. Check it out above.

As keen appreciators of Tamia’s talent and catalogue, we can’t wait to hear the song!

Pending its debut, listen to a preview below…

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Lady Gaga has always stood as a present day pop anomaly.

As an artist, Gaga – born Stefani Germanotta – has carefully skated on commercial relevance by offering an EDM-wrapped package similar to the radio’s top offerings, yet qualitatively different in its decoration with undeniable vocal talent and stage presence oft-lost on her pop competitors.  These qualities, much like her ever-changing image, saw her inaugural years court as much positivity for her eccentricity as it did negativity for claims of being gimmicky.

Yet, for as meteoric as her rise to pop dominance was, her slide down the slope of commercial relevance has seemingly met similar acceleration.  Indeed, the years that followed her blockbuster ‘Born This Way’ album don’t see her every “hairdo and don’t,” on-stage antic, nor music release greeted with the same level of intense media coverage they once received.  While the cause of this shift has seen many-a-finger pointed toward the allure of “her gimmick fading,” others even argue that her inconsistent choice of sound (i.e. departure from “black music”) is to blame.

I, on the other hand, will argue that neither are the primary perpetrator, but instead wish to place a lens on Gaga’s aggressive social agenda which, in turn, caused the drift of her faithful buying audience.  Full analysis below:

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Drake isn’t the only Pop prince rocking and ruling the charts this week.

For, should one pay the Billboard Hot 100 a visit, they’d find Bruno Mars at #1 with the single ‘Uptown Funk’, placed in the enviable spot for a total of seven weeks!

His chart reign continues as Rihanna’s ‘FourFiveSeconds’ finds itself placed at #4, and as Chris Brown & Tyga‘s joint jam ‘Ayo‘ impacts iTunes UK‘s Top Ten by claiming the #9 spot for itself.

The cut’s charting in the market will come as a welcome surprise for Brown fans as past legal troubles have seen him unable to promote music in the country physically.

However, it seems his absence has made the hearts of British fans grow fonder as his success with this single comes after 2013’s ‘Loyal’ was certified Gold in the market for sales of over 400,000 units.

More good news below…

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It appears Iggy Azalea has finally followed her Grand Hustle mentor T.I.‘s advice.

Read her rant below:

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‘Hot S**’ rapper Vanilla Ice has been arrested on suspicion of burglary this week, picked up by police after claims he had broken into and stolen from a Florida home.

Bad news below…

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Not even the combined powers of music super divas Beyonce, Lady Gaga, and Jennifer Hudson were enough to shift killer ratings for the second installment of the ‘Grammy tribute’ series – this time paying homage the academy’s most decorated artist Stevie Wonder.

Airing February 15th on CBS, the showing – a critics top pick –  did manage to draw a respectable viewing audience, but still nearly less than half of last year’s episode in honor of the Beatles (which drew a whopping 13.95 million viewers).  The numbers are all the more disappointing as, unlike the Beatles tribute, Wonder’s installment had little competition elsewhere on television.

But, as reports below reveal, all was not lost.  For, after the likes of Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, Janelle Monae, John Legend, and Ed Sheeran put their ever modern twists on Wonder’s classic hits, interest in the 70s & 80s numbers found itself skyrocketing on top sites Spotify and Shazam.

Get the full reports on the TV and streaming numbers below:

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