Rihanna releases new video and is crowned best-selling digital artist of all time

 
Biggest seller: Rihanna (Picture: Getty)
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Emma Powell2 July 2015
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Rihanna has been crowned the best-selling digital artist of all time, according to new figures from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The 27-year-old singer has amassed more than 100 million Gold and Platinum song certifications making her the first and only artist to surpass RIAA’s 100 million Digital Singles Award mark.

Fans of the Diamonds singer - who first made her mark in the charts with Pon de Replay in 2005 - are eagerly awaiting the release of her eighth album R8, her first since Unapologetic in 2012.

The album will feature Four Five Seconds - her collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney and Kanye West - as well as B**** Better Have My Money, the video of which she released this week.

Rihanna's BBHMM video: the most shocking moments (explicit content)

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The seven minute video features nudity, drug-taking, torture, and shows Rihanna drenched in blood and draped over a trunk filled with money.

The video will no doubt be deemed controversial as some clips show Rihanna, along with two assistants, hanging a woman naked by her feet in a warehouse before dragging her around the desert in a leather trunk, taking her back to her home and murdering her husband.

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