Rihanna
EARNINGS: £30million in 2010 from her Last Girl On Earth tour and album.
SALES: 15million albums and 45million singles.
AWARDS: Four Grammys, one Brit.
HIGHLIGHT: Smash single Umbrella was No1 in nine countries.
CHARITY: Created Believe Foundation in 2006 for terminally ill children.
tougher, sexier image that established Rihanna on the global map - and bagged her first Grammy.
Superstar producer - and Mr Beyonce Knowles - Jay-Z has played a huge part in success of the singer from Barbados , signing her to his Def Jam label when she was just 16, and now managing her under his Roc Nation label.
He was also the mastermind behind Beyonce's transformation from Destiny's Child member to fully fledged solo megastar.
Beyonce's first solo album, 2003's Dangerously in Love, topped the charts in countries including the UK and US.
Unlike Rihanna, the bootylicious American has also branched out into acting and received a best actress nomination at the 2007 Golden Globes for Dreamgirls.
SIXTEEN Grammy wins later, Beyonce is now one of two female solo artists with the most No1 singles of the past decade. The other is Rihanna.
Despite enjoying similar success, the girls' family lives couldn't be more different.
Rihanna grew up in Bridgetown, Barbados. Aged nine, she walked in on her junkie dad Ronald taking crack. When she was 14 her parents divorced.
Meanwhile Beyonce comes from a religious family devoted to carving her career as a star: before their spat this year dad Matthew had managed the singer's career from childhood and mum Tina created costumes throughout Bey's time in Destiny's Child.
While Rihanna remains single, last month loved-up Beyonce celebrated three years of marriage to Jay-Z and the couple are often spotted canoodling in restaurants and holidaying in romantic hotspots.
The two stars also share a love of fashion and creating a stir with sexy and dramatic stage costumes.
Beyonce's sexy on-stage persona - who she has named Sasha Fierce - has seen her morph from glitzy frocks designed by mum to edgy fashionista, sporting designs by cutting-edge labels like Balmain, Preen, Isabel Marant and French designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
Since the release of her Good Girl Gone Bad album Rihanna's image has become more and more provocative. On last year's X Factor she stripped off to a tribal bikini.
Both stars have brought luck to X Factor finalists. Beyonce duetted with winner Alexandra Burke in the 2008 final. And Rhi Rhi followed suit late last year singing with champ Matt Cardle.
Off stage Rihanna's style has developed as designers inundate her with clothes hoping for an endorsement. The lace Stella McCartney gown from the Met ball was a perfect illustration of her ability to be sexy AND stylish.
Fierce heels, mega shoulders, micro minis, underwear as outerwear, OTT accessories and piles of bling are all trends both ladies have both tried. Here we pit Pop's reigning Princesses against each other - but who
REALLY wears it best?
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