“I can’t wait to put something out that I’m really proud of and excited about,” she said in an interview with Access Hollywood. In July 2020, while doing a promotional tour for Fenty Beauty, Rihanna explained why it’s been taking so long to finish her ninth studio album. “Just 1 tho lol.” This was, obviously, just a troll from Rihanna. Like clockwork, fans said she should “celebrated by releasing a song.” “ I think I should,” she said. However, she did give fans some positive news almost a year after this rant.Īfter Anti spent a record-breaking five years on the Billboard 200 chart – making her the first Black artist to achieve such a goal – she posted an Instagram video to celebrate. “If one of y’all motherf-ckers ask me about the album one more time when I’m trying to save the world, unlike y’all president….on sight,” she said during an April 2020 Instagram Live chat, likely referencing then-president Donald Trump, and how she had pledged to donate a $5 million to global coronavirus relief via her Clara Lionel Foundation. Grow up.” When Will Rihana’s New Album Be Released? Rihanna in concert in Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy, in 2016 (Shutterstock)Īs of September 2021, we don’t know when Rihanna’s album will drop, and honestly, it’s best to stop asking.
“Resolution should be releasing the album,” a snarky fan added in the comments, which prompted Rihanna to respond with, “This comment is sooo 2019. 1 IG post featuring her in a metallic outfit. “New year’s resolution: apply the pressure,” she captioned a Jan.
So, there is an audience just waiting to give Rihanna all their money, but from the way she responded to a fan at the start of 2021, she might be good. Outside of her debut release, all of her albums have gone Platinum numerous times, and her lowest score on Metacritic is 61. While other artists risk oversaturating the market with such a prolific output, Rihanna maintained a steady level of commercial and critical success. Talk That Talk arrived in 2011, with Unapologetic arriving a year later. Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rated R (2009), and Loud (2010) closed out the decade, meaning that Rihanna released five albums in as many years. Her debut studio album, 2005’s Music of the Sun, was quickly followed up by A Girl Like Me in 2006. Rihanna at the Made in America Festival in 2016 (Shutterstock Her last full-length was 2016’s Anti, a triple-Platinum album best known for its chart-topping single – and one of her frequent collabs with Drake- “Work.” Anti followed 2012’s Unapologetic, which contained arguably Rihanna’s biggest song, “Diamonds.” Until 2021, the four years between Anti and Unapologetic were the longest gap fans endured between Rihanna projects, as she used to put out albums at a much more frequent pace. However, 2021 marks the longest period that fans have gone without a new Rihanna record.