A Trio of Rihanna features

As if conquering the globe with Loud wasn't enough!

With 'Loud' charting top 3 all over the globe and Only Girl (In The World) and What's My Name? topping charts, that's not all Rihanna's been up to. Here are three tracks which have all been scaling US itunes today due to the release of their parents albums.

Kanye West - All Of The Lights



After causing controversy with Taylor Swift last year at the VMAs Kanye was always going to be up against it when attempting to launch his next album. Having experienced a similar backlash to that of Chris Brown's what he really needed was some material to recapture his fans. Unfortunately Power was not the track to do that with, as it struggled top 40 both here and in the US. Having said that 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is still aiming at 400k during Black Friday week in America!

All Of The Lights is a blatant attempt to recreate the success of Run This Town, and it's better in my opinion. I didn't warm to that track too well as I felt Rihanna was being under used, but the subtlety here actually adds to the track. You can imagine the video featuring the pair in the midst of a marching procession; it would be so apt with the drums and trumpets backing the track. Towards the end there seems to be an overload of artists making their input which I really don't think was necessary.


David Guetta - Who's That Chick?



This track has been around for a while acting as a advertisement campaign by Doritos and has two videos - both a day and night version. There was initially some confusion as to whether this would be the lead single from 'Loud' in preference to Only Girl of which I'm relieved they made the right decision. Rather surprisingly, it hasn't even been included as a bonus track on 'Loud' despite being released next Monday.

The song has a high energy and is fun. It helps create a complete transformation from the darker Rated R and LTWYL back to the fun loving girl we all fell in love with during those 'GGGB' days. I'm glad the track is being released under Guetta's name as the sound is so typical of his that it could come across as though RiRi was selling out in the same way other acts are jumping on the Red One band wagon (Sugababes, Backstreet Boys, Enrique, Sean Kingston...need I say more) to varying degrees of success.


Nicki Minaj - Fly



First off, I really don't see Nicki's appeal. She recently featured on Rihanna's album on Raining Men - I'm not sure if there's any correlation between her appearance and the fact it's my least favourite track off 'Loud', but oh well! However I downloaded this blindly off Play.com recently as part of the Becks deal to give out free music, and I'm quite impressed. The chorus is beautiful and inspirational - it's just a shame we have to have Minaj interrupting so often!

Nicki's had limited success so far with singles Your Love, Check It Out (Feat. Will.i.am) and Right Thru Me but this one could really break that pattern. She seems like one of those acts where the music industry just tries too hard to make happen (Hello Duffy & Adele). With a list of features longer than most artist's entire back catalogue it's like they are latching her on to any success she can get. Though it may pay off as the HDD predictions for next week are pitching her album 'Pink Friday' to challenge Kanye for the top of the Billboard 200 by clearing sales of 400k! Good luck with that anyway - Rihanna brings a really uplifting element to this song and I hope it gets a release for her sake.


(Sorry for any poor quality versions, youtube really isn't what it used to be).