The swarm of controversy surrounding Rihanna and Chris Brown’s musical collaborations may have lost them some fans (more Rihanna than Brown, we imagine), but it certainly hasn’t dampened the singers’ presence on the radio. Programmers across the county are happily spinning both the remix to Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake” and Brown’s “Turn Up The Music”, which were leaked online by the duo last week.
Billboard inquired with several R&B radio programmers about why they chose to support the songs, and their reasons are pretty much summed up by this quote given by Hollywood Hernandez, program director of Cumulus’ syndicated R&B channel “The Touch”: “My philosophy is to play the hits… If it’s a hit song, I’ll play it.” Personal morality be damned!
Brown’s Rihanna-featuring remix for his single, “Turn Up The Music”, will be digitally released sometime this week. However, the fate of Rihanna’s “Cake”, featuring Brown, is still up in the air — a label rep told Billboard that Island Def Jam is still working on her album’s title track as the LP’s next single and has not decided what to do (if anything) with the “Cake” remix.
Though we aren’t surprised that Breezy and his team are actively pushing the most obvious symbol of Rihanna’s forgiveness, we don’t see how RiRi could benefit whatsoever from officially releasing a song with the man who once attacked her. Let’s hope Jay-Z blows the candles out on “Cake” once and for all.
[Via Billboard]
people forgive people everyday and they are looked upon to have the biggest heart., but for some reason some have a problem with chris brown and rihanna moving on with their life. she may have lost a minimal number of fans but she has gained twice as many. check fame count. furthermore rihannanavy and Teambreezy have come together. I wish them all the best.. enough already. let these 2 young people live their lives and make music.
The problem is neither song is good (at least to me). I usually love Chris’ jams but this one just sounds fake. And what station is ALLOWED to play Rihanna’s song…it’s just too dirty!!!
Love her even though she’s like my dumb little sister who can’t dump the douche-bag monkey ex.
Rihanna and Chris are the only celebs on earth. Move on. They have both moved on, but people like you know them personally. If she lost some fans because of this, they never were real fans. What are the people doing next door to you? Worry about that.
its not Jay Z’s birthday, how come he is the one doing the blowing? that old man better face his blue ivy and leave Rihanna to live her life too. if Beyonce leave his, he is done.