To tell the truth, we found the task quite challenging. The matter is most teens of our town turned out to like both Russian and foreign music very much. As for the most popular foreign performers, they are: Rihanna, Triangle Sun, Florence and the Machine, Madonna, Oasis etc. We did some research and found out that teens abroad are fond of the same singers and bands. Rihanna is a Barbadian-born American recording artist and actress. Rihanna's debut studio album, Music of the Sun (2005), peaked at number ten on the Billboard 200 and features the Billboard Hot 100 top five hit single "Pon de Replay". Rihanna's seventh album, Unapologetic (2012), was preceded by the lead single "Diamonds", which became Rihanna's twelfth number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rihanna's work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including four Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, eighteen Billboard Music Awards and two BRIT Awards. In 2012, Rihanna was awarded by her label, Def Jam, for selling 25 million records worldwide and 75 million singles, since the beginning of her career in 2005, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. She has achieved a total of twelve number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the youngest solo artist to achieve the feat. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the seventeenth overall artist of the same decade. In 2012, Forbes ranked her as the fourth most powerful celebrity of 2012 with earnings of $53 million between May 2011 and May 2012.The same year, American magazine Time named Rihanna one of the most influential people in the world.