I should have given Diamonds a lower mark. It really is up there with her worst. YUCK.

Diamonds is fabulous, easily her best ballad.

07 | Take Care (Drake ft. Rihanna) | Average: 9.1333


It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to, can't deny that I want you, but I'll lie if I have to...

Highest Scores
11 JakeWild
11 Casey__

Lowest Scores
06 Robot
03 -Gary

In at seven is the final song to not feature Rihanna on lead vocals, "Take Care" by Drake, from his album of the same name, which samples Jamie xx's remix of Gil Scott Heron's "I'll Take Care of You" (I hope I got that bit right!). It's a great house song, again telling the tale of love between Rihanna and her lover (in this instance, Drake). It became a UK top 10 hit upon the release of the album, giving Rihanna simultaneous top ten hits with a song which is yet to appear here. It also became a Billboard top 10 hit, and finished within the top 25 of 2012.

I adore this. :wub: Better than anything from her last three studio albums.

Take Care is really good, but it's not as good as quite a lot of her other songs.

06 | What's My Name? (ft. Drake) (Loud) | Average: 9.1935


You got that something that keeps me so off balance, baby you're a challenge, let's explore your talent...

Highest Scores
11 152chris
11 Jack
11 gooddelta
11 G R I E F
11 ▲▲▲
11 JakeWild

Lowest Scores
06 Nick F1
-1 Atonement

Just missing out on the top five, and causing double-Drake in the top ten is "What's My Name?", the second single released from Loud and Rihanna's fifth UK #1 single. The song if more R&B-orientated than the majority of Rihanna's material at the time, which is perhaps one of the many reasons that this became a success - off the back of club banger "Only Girl (In The World)" (more on that later), people were keen for a nice side! This came along and gave her back-to-back #1s for the first time. It's another lyrically-suggestive number, but again it works so well. For some reason, I did not give this an 11 when rating, although it clearly didn't need it - if it weren't for the -1 score that it got from Atonement, it would have made the top three with ease!

Never mind being one of my favourite Rihanna songs, What's My Name is one of my favourite songs of all time! :wub:

I still love 'What's My Name', the best thing about the Loud era for sure.

U, WHYB, OG, WFL and S?

 

I hope it's a U/OG/WFL top 3. All fantastic lead singles!

05 | Only Girl (In The World) (Loud) | Average: 9.2419


I wanna make you beg for it, then Imma make you swallow your pride...

Highest Scores
11 ✖ leww ✖
11 パーベル
11 AdamAloud
11 Mikal
11 Nick F1
11 Casey__
11 -Gary

Lowest Scores
05 G R I E F
04 ▲▲▲

Next up is the final song from the Loud album, and Rihanna's 2010 comeback single which truly turned her into the star that we know and love today. Released just months after the beautiful "Love The Way You Lie" with Eminem, "Only Girl (In The World)" quickly climbed to #1 and soon became a UK million-selling single (one of three in her current collection!) The song is pretty self-explanatory, with Rihanna wishing to be all that her man cares for. The video also featured her then-iconic red locks (which starred throughout the Loud campaign). It was a song that took a long time to grow on me personally, although it's my one of my favourites of hers now, which most of you seem to agree with!

Three beauties there, especially the two Drake ones :wub:

 

Genuine WADAFUQ at Where Have You Been and Stay coming top 5. Both extremely underwhelming, especially compared to some of the ones they've managed to beat here.

 

I'd guess that We Found Love has this won though.

Cannot believe 'Stay' (I do love it, but really?!) has beaten everything in this top ten. A lot of my 11s and personal faves in the 10-5 section. 'What's My Name' and 'Only Girl' completely sum up my first year of Uni. I'm happy 'Take Care' made the top ten, so beautiful. I would LOVE for Rihanna and Drake to do an album together, it would be all types of amazing.

 

I'm hoping for a 'We Found Love' win here!

OK Umbrella has to win this now! I love both Where Have You Been and Stay to pieces but REALLY? And We Found Love is nice but all kinds of overrated, would be a massive letdown if it won. Still expecting an Umbrella vs We Found Love duel to the death.

Only Girl is the definition of AVERAGE.

 

And even though I'm very surprised that Where Have You Been and Stay are in the Top 4, they're both exceptional songs so they deserve their placing in this rate. :wub:

 

If it was my own opinion...

 

01 We Found Love

02 Umbrella

03 Where Have You Been

04 Stay

 

And this is where I think they'll chart as well, apart from Where Have You Been and Stay swapping their positions.

Edited April 22, 201312 yr by Grief

'Stay' FTW! I don't care if it's newer than the rest of the top 10, I believe it truly deserves it's position and am so, SO pleased it managed to at least beat out the overrated and generic 'Only Girl (In the World)'! Like I've said numerous times before it's definitely my favourite single she's released and it seems to be one of those songs which will appear in countdowns for years to come. 'Where Have You Been' coming top 4 though is more surprising for me. It's another generic "club banger" (albeit a damn good one), but I never envisioned it on doing as well as it has done. Low top 10 (literally 8-10) is all I thought it would do! Other than that a fantastic final set of songs!

 

Here's what I want:

01. 'Stay'

02. 'We Found Love'

03. 'Umbrella'

04. 'Where Have You Been'

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Here's what I think:

01. 'We Found Love'

02. 'Umbrella'

03. 'Where Have You Been'

04. 'Stay'

I love Stay as well and I'm so glad that it's got this high! It defined last Christmas for me as well. :wub: It's so beautiful.

'Stay' has got WAY too high.

Umbrella and Where Have u Been are only great songs in top 4, others two are just good and quite overrated especially W Found Love <_<

wait,wait,wait..... Unfaithful missed the top 10 :cry:

Where Have You Been and Stay are in my top 3 Rihanna songs ever, one of them should win but I think WFL will take it.