Rihanna Curse is a term people use to describe the situation between Rihanna's Umbrella song and the 2007 United Kingdom floods. The Umbrella song was the longest running song at number one in the United Kingdom which happened at the same time as the flood. It reign at number-one in the United Kingdom and Ireland occurred as the region was hit by extreme rainfall and flooding, which led some people to jokingly suggest the two events were related, the media referring to it as the "Rihanna Curse". Interestingly, the precise day the song was knocked from the #1 position by Timbaland, the weather seemed to improve. A similar situation occurred in New Zealand, where the song hit #1 in the early winter of 2007 as the country was experiencing some of the worst storms in its history. In Greece,
"Umbrella" was released at a time when people were suffering through a summer of several major heatwaves topping 47C/117F, and the worst forest fires of modern history, killing 60 people. When the song peaked at #4 in the Greek singles chart in October 2007, the country experienced significant rainfall. Spain also experienced one of its wettest summers in decades, and the coldest August since the beginning of the 20th century during "Umbrella"'s chart run. It should also be noted that the video for Umbrella was shot on Friday the 13th April adding further coincidence of the curse. The "Rihanna Curse" has appeared to have returned in UK in 2008 since Take A Bow reached number 1 the rain came back.
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