Happy 30th Birthday, Rihanna!

Rihanna is everyone’s friend-in-their-head, all-around cool chick, beauty and fashion icon, entrepreneur and oh, yeah, singer! She’s the It Girl Of It Girls and she’s one of the most hard-working and beloved superstars of all time. Today our girl turns 30! Can you believe it? Of course, Rihanna herself took time to note the moment in her usual humorous way.

Here are 10 of the videos that made Rih Rih the most fab chick in the musical, and really, any, universe.

PON THE REPLAY (2005)

2x Platinum, #2 U.S.

Yes, Rihanna burst on the scene in 2005 as the cutie from the Caribbean. Did you know then that she’d take it this far?

UMBRELLA f/ Jay Z (2007)

6x Platinum, #1 U.S.

The good girl gone bad gets a monster hit with the help of her boss, Roc Nation head Jay Z.

RUSSIAN ROULETTE (2009) 

2xPlatinum #9 U.S.

One of Rihanna’s most emotionally intense videos with a cameo from Jesse Williams.

RUN THIS TOWN (2009)

2x Platinum #2 U.S.

Rihanna runs this town with fellow superstars Kanye and Jay.

DIAMONDS (2012)

6x Platinum #1 U.S.

Diamonds in the sky is what Rihanna’s career has looked like since the beginning.

WE FOUND LOVE (2011) f/Calvin Harris 

9x Platinum #1 U.S.

This burner about a love gone wrong from the beginning is among one of Rihanna’s biggest hits.

MAN DOWN (2011)

2x Platinum #1 France

Well before the #MeToo movement became mainstream, Rihanna deftly showed a revenge fantasy of a woman whose assault moves her to violence.

STAY (2013)

6x Platinum #3 U.S.

One of Rihanna’s most beautiful songs, and one of her most intimate videos.

WORK (2015)

6x Platinum #1 U.S.

Rihanna and Drake used their ‘did they or didn’t they’ relationship to have a little fun with their fans and each other.

WILD THOUGHTS (2017)

3x Platinum, #2 U.S.

Well, technically, it’s a DJ Khaled song featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller, but it feels like a Rihanna song to us. It’s hot AND haute.

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