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Since I was unable to choose one, I decided to go with two of my very famous artists, Beyoncé and Rihanna. Both are extremely successful artists, one stuck with music while the other decided to move to another route. Although I wish Riri was still making music as well. Beyoncé started her career long before Rihanna came into the industry, in fact by the time Rihanna signed her first record, Beyoncé was up and above in her career. She had released her last studio album with Destiny’s Child and was ready to move on to her solo career. She got married to Jay Z in 2008, same rapper Jay Z that Rihanna had signed her first record deal with. In total Beyoncé had won 58 awards including, Grammys, American Music awards, VMAs and Billboard Music awards. Whereas Rihanna had won 34. But Rihanna had moved from the music industry and put more of her focus on other things like coming out with her own beauty line, lingerie line and skin beauty line. She is also an ambassador of Puma. Rihanna had a larger singles sale than Beyoncé has, by a huge difference. Beyoncé performed for the halftime show in Superbowl in 2013 and Rihanna made and iconic performance during the Victoria Secret fashion show in 2015. Rihanna may not be on the same level as Beyoncé in the music industry but she is killing it in other aspects of other industries, she was awarded Humanitarian of the year by Harvard University.