It seems like Rihanna has already started R9 from this tweet (Alicia Renee wrote for ANTI)
It'll be really hard for her to top ANTI imo but Queen Rih never fails to surprise me *.*
What do you want for R9? Be sure to comment your thoughts below
EDIT: Josepvinaixa.com has confirmed a new song called 'Mayday' has been registered!
defently back towards a smash eg we found love, the loud era was prob my favourite so kind of those lines, smash it back to dancefloor hits!
I can't see her topping ANTI but then I didn't think she'd ever top Rated R and she did, so who knows?
I think she probably will be more hit-focused with this release, but I'm not completely sure. Would love an album of BBHMMs but I can't see that happening 😫
Another new song, 'Shotgun' feat. J Cole has been registered!
Just found this article from just before Wild Thoughts was released, it looks like Album nine may be on it's way to deliver us Jesus later this year *.*
Pinned this so it doesn't get lost like the other thread!
I can't remember the article but she also worked with Skrillex and Blackbear on music recently.
I can't WAIT for new music. Love all the excitement at the beginning of a new era.
I'm hoping the beginning of R9 will go a lot more smoothly than R8. Even through it was all worth it in the end for the masterpiece that is ANTI, I hated not knowing what was going on at the start, the random single releases that weren't even on the album... I'll never be happy that BBHMM didn't make the cut, haha 😭
Loving the sound of PHATTY from that *.*
Also, hoping that Joyride won't actually be on there because that's a Tinashe track she was oroginally naming her second album after...her version leaked a while back as well and it was nothing special really either :')
Omg Skrillex and Rihanna YES
I need a bit more pop than Anti but I'm so readh
I know a lot of other artists are releasing this fall as well but I don't want to wait until 2018 so I hope something is coming soon.
Q4 would be fab, we've had Wild Thoughts and Loyalty to sort of tide us over but she hasn't been like Justin Bieber level of omnipresence with her features so Q4 would be perfect to properly come back! I'd love something more poppy too, a mixture of songs like Work and Wild Thoughts with some more pop leaning stuff would be great, all we got on Anti really was Love On The Brain but I'll definitely have another song like that
I'd love a Q4 release so much. I think she could definitely pull it off with the right singles and promotion.
ANTI was a bit of an odd one because of the free copies and the odd build up, hopefully R9 will be a much more standard release. With good promo/a huge single I'm confident she could get HUGE Q4 sales.
So excited for the first single 😍
I'm so ready for new Rihanna, can't believe it's already been 18 months since ANTI!
That's actually crazy! I was about to be like 'uhhh it's only been a year!' but it really has been 18 months
Really doesn't feel that long ago at all.
*.* Can't wait!
I'm SO here for dancehall and reggae and I would basically die at a collab with Diplo!
They really do need to work together ASAP.
I'm SO thirsty for new music. I hate myself for starting to stan her in like 2014. I missed all the good years and only got the crap half-assed moments.
If only she cared as much about ha music as she does about FentyBeauty.
From HDD:
http://hitsdailydouble.com/
SHE'S COMING (or Beyoncé, Adele, Drake, Justin Bieber or Eminem ;o)
UGH. Does it list a date for that? I don't think it would be JB or Drake of those you've listed but I also can't see Beyoncé releasing this year either... Maybe just maybe R9 is closer than we think?
#Let'sgoladies *.* throw it up throw it up watch it all out *.*
I am SO ready for a new album, really want her to have another huge seller as well so a Q4 release would be perfect
I love Rihanna but I hope R9 doesn't come out until next year.
If she releases this year i feel as though she'll get lost amongst the mix and it would prevent her getting another UK number one album .
In Q4 we have Pink returning, Taylor is releasing in November which is bound to be the biggest female album of Q4 and then Sam Smith is coming back too which is also bound to be a huge #1. I also hope we get more SOLO smashes and the collaborations are released sparingly.
COME ON QUAVOOO
Any collaborations anyone wanting to see on the album?
Shakka (idk who that is but whatever) has heard songs from the new album and said that what's he's heard so far is insane *.* Also I read on Popjustice that she's worked with Skrillex - random but obvs he did "Where Are U Now" which was a tune.
Literally cannot wait for this, really really hoping we get something before the end of the year but as we get closer to November/December it's feeling less and less likely Although Beyoncé's self-titled dropped in mid-December and Rih is at a similar place in her career to Bey at that time so it could happen.
A producer called Earthquake has leaked a clip of an alleged collaboration that he's worked on with Rihanna and Beyoncé:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/03/12/rumored-beyonce-rihanna-collaboration-sends-fans-frenzy/
Sounds pretty terrible from that clip 😕
I miss the days when she was releasing one album a year...
I think it could be music!!
IT BETTER BE
And Ariana and Rihanna can both have successful singles at the same time Hyped for both.
I am more than happy for these two ladies to share the spotlight but I won't believe anything to do with Rihanna's music career is coming until I hear it myself
It feels so long since she last put out new music. C’mon, I need a new Rihanna music fix.
It honestly feels like she doesn’t care as much about her music career She’s such a troll as well, she knows no one really cares about Fenty Beauty/Laungerie
Reportedly working on releasing 2 albums! One radio friendly and one more experimental!
WHaaaaat?? Where did you hear that??
http://www.breatheheavy.com/producer-elijah-blake-claims-rihanna-is-releasing-two-new-albums/?utm_source=go.breatheheavy.com&utm_medium=instagram.com&utm_campaign=go.breatheheavy.com%2FRihannaTwoAlbums&utm_content=link_click
Not here for another Loud. An album of smashes would be amazing but I'd need them to have HER in it and not just be generic Experimental more like ANTI sounds much more appealing to me!!
ANTI performed really well as well so I'm not sure she'd be as unhappy as the article says. The main focus will be the US and there she had three huge smashes and a couple of songs doing very well in the club/dance charts and ANTI is multiplatinum.
She finally confirmed that new music is coming (on Instagram)
I'm here for as much music as possible *.* That article does really seem like bullshit I agree though, it makes it sound like she absolutely bombed with it and is in absolute crisis. I'm here for both of the sides mentioned and two albums is fab but she doesn't *need* a super commercial album to save her career because it's just fine. As has been said Anti did really well and stuck around, plus had a mega hit in Work!
Yeah the article in itself is pretty poorly written, but I think they've been quite reliable with information like this in the past.
I'd love a double album from her so we get both the pop bops and urban jams, sounds too good to be true tho hmm
A double album would be everything
I really cannot picture her releasing two albums but I would be here for it. To make up for the long waits since 2012 . But not a double album, I would want them released separately, especially if they're worlds apart sonically.
She just confirmed in her new Vogue US interview that R9 will be reggae!!
She liked several tweets about it on twitter too!
A REGGAE ALBUM *.*
MORE SONGS LIKE NO LOVE ALLOWED *.*
SHE IS COMING *.*
I'm not 100% sold on the idea of a full-on reggae album but she has delivered some bops that have edged on reggae in the past, so I'll reserve judgement for now.
Here's the extract from the interview regarding music:
oh please not an entire reggae album.
When has Rih ever made an album that's just one genre ?
Reggae will just be the dominant genre on R9, the same way R&B was the main genre on Anti
Man Down is her best song and that's the tea so I'm kinda here for this, as said I doubt it would be the entire album it might just be an overarching theme.
Besides Work was dancehall so a few songs in that vein as well as some full on reggae.
eek why does it sound like she barely started on the album.
bitch better have my album ready by the end of 2018 at the very LATEST.
Reggae, I'm intrigued. If it's anything like 'Man Down' that will be awesome.
According to current rumours and Twitter both R9 and R10 are coming this Q4
I really don't think the two album rumor is true. But if it is she should release one this year and the other one next year. Not at the same time please.
Would be good if there was a collaboration with The Weeknd on the album.
nnn why does it seem like she's about to say ''no'' when Graham asks her if it will be out before Christmas.
I'm quite aghast that he said 'Umbrella' was her first big hit.
The ones before were buzz hits
Rumours circulating of a rock album with a Harry Styles collab, dont know how to feel about this but a rock power ballad like Russian Roulette would be marvellous
We already know it's a reggae album though?
I wonder if the double album rumors were true and if the album will be double disc like Drakes Scorpion. I can’t see it myself but she’s someone who could definitely pull it off. I see the album as more reggae than rock but would personally prefer a more rock style album as that’s something she hasn’t really done since Rated R (her best album).
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/inside-rihannas-upcoming-dancehall-album-700930/
500 records for the album! Must be an exaggeration surely!
And the R9 PR has started *.* Possibly more hyped than I’ve ever been for an album
Omg some of these need to leak 😫
I still think it must be too good to be true she's working on two albums at the same time. But ugh we deserve two albums.
500!! I don't believe that, why would they only select 10 for the final album if that were true?! I need a new music now!!!
If anyone remembers this what was ANTI described as before that came out was it accurate to the final product? Often we hear things about albums what turn out to be total false yet this seems accurate too me as I imagined Rihanna to do this sound but not necessarily an entire albums worth.
Doesn't that just mean 500 songs have been written and given to Rihanna/her team to consider recording for the album, rather than her actually recording 500 songs? I can believe that, she is so big that the label can afford to commission so many songs and choose only the best (watch there be some filler tracks anyway).
Yeah I read it as being 500 songs submitted to her team, which wouldn’t surprise me at all.
There’s no way she’s recorded that many of them but in terms of songs submitted I can totally believe that.
I’m so here for a dancehall album.
She's STILL recording it seems, she posted a couple of Insta stories behind a mic today.
I am so ready for this. Predicting a November release with the single announced and released late October. If she's recorded two albums, I wouldn't mind one being held back until the end of next year.
She could drop a children's album and I'd be there so hard for it.
Who knows if this means anything but: https://twitter.com/musicnewsfact/status/1039321569745690624
I'm ready for you Rih
A Q4 release like the old days pls <3
OFMG SHE'S F***ING COMING
Queen
It’s just SavageFenty again 😭😭😭
ffs
Her promo video on Instagram for the anniversary of Fenty is amazing though - as was her clapback to a fan asking her when new music is coming 😂 I'm sure she will deliver, whenever it may be.
Still waiting for her Rihnaissance.
Alesso revealed in an interview that Rihanna wants to make this a "dance-heavy album" and that she is planning to work with Calvin, Guetta, Diplo and Garrix for it. Diplo responded on Twitter by saying "the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club".
Honestly I don't know what to believe/expect at the moment. Obviously I'd kill for another Calvin banger, especially with what he's been giving us this year but I still don't love their last collaboration as much as I should do. I don't think she's ever worked with Diplo before though (correct me if I'm wrong) so his tweet alluding to a collab is exciting but none of these artists point towards a reggae/dancehall album so...
Guetta can stay away though!
Diplo’s been wanting to work with her for years but she’s always turned him down maybe she’s finally given in? His sound is way more centred in reggae/dancehall than dance (except his most recent stuff) so that could work both ways.
I’d give anything for a full dancehall album 😭
Is anyone else half expecting Rih to drop this album out of nowhere? No official word on release date etc so far but I feel she'll Beyonce us either this month or next.
I think it’s coming next year tbh. ANTis release has probably made her think twice about the dropping out of nowhere style release.
yeah it's easier to forget how big ANTI was in the US because it underperformed over here!
She had three huge top 10 hits from the ANTI era over there too - more than Unapologetic and Talk That Talk!
ANTI has done really well in the US, way better than I thought it would after the messy af roll out of it but in Europe it didn't do great, I think the 'surprise' release would've worked over here if FFS/BBHMM/AO didn't exist or there wasn't a huge gap but it felt like by the time ANTI came out there was no hype apart from the fans, even with Work smashing. Even though ANTI has excellent streaming on it's side when her other albums haven't had that, it still hasn't got platinum and I THINK (correct me please ) it'll take a while to get there as well. Obviously platinum isn't the be all and end all but it looks good to have I wonder if it's sold 100k pure sales, not that it matters a lot.
I was always under the impression that the US success was more because of streams if it was just based on just pure sales and downloads that ANTi would’ve been labelled an underperformance in the US too.
I think there’ll be a big campaign for this album in the opening weeks though. ANTi had some like she did do the Brits didn’t she put the Grammys got cancelled which could’ve been a big moment had that went ahead.
https://twitter.com/Fenty_Stats/status/1061028366927740930?s=20
She posted a video of herself in a studio to Insta stories but wasn't so kind as to share the audio 💔 Still gagged by the visual though and how genuinely happy she looks recording again.
I really hope the rumours of her having a song with XXXTENTACION aren't true .
I really think she'd be too smart to allow herself to collaborate with him, she seems like she has actual morals.
I’m actually feeling sick thinking about this. If she collaborated with that scum that would be a decade of stanning down the drain :’( it’s probably not true and I’m overreacting I know but it’s still scary af.
Ugh I'm so sick of waiting. We should be about to get her tenth album by now. This could be the first year since her debut since she didn't release anything at all.
Who is XXXTENACION? I googled and it said he was murdered?
Well he released an album on Friday and as far as I know, she isn't featured on it, so let's hope this collaboration doesn't materialise
I have a feeling we’re gonna get something on New Years Day like the album name / cover or a surprise drop of a single.
I then think the album will be released on the last Friday in January or first Friday in February. Originally I thought we’d get it in like June but I strongly feel it’s coming really soon.
She’s confirmed it’s coming next year. FINALLY.
Think we all kind of knew it would be anyway, but at least she’s said it.
I agree it’ll probably be sooner rather than later. Full dancehall album PLEASE.
Couldn’t be more excited for this, ANTI feels like forever ago already.
Omg where?! I am so excited for this!!
Finally, I’m so excited!
Amazing news.
For her to actually say it herself as well says to me it’s pretty much almost done I don’t think she’d have commented if it was coming in Q4.
I’m thinking lead single possibly on the 4th January with the album a few weeks later.
From her recent Instas, I'm starting to believe the hype that this could drop in the first week of Jan!
I'm ready
CAN SHE HTFU WITH THIS PLZ. THNX.
She shared a clip in the studio on her Instagram the other day and you can hear the tiniest bit of audio!
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8492399/rihanna-shares-tiny-studio-snippet-instagram
Hype!
I hope she performs at the Grammys / BRITs.
I’m still feeling we will at least have the lead single before then.
Also... I really hope the album doesn’t have loads of collaborations.
It’s a rarity these days to have a solo single and I’d love her to release multiple solo singles from this album no features just 100% Rihanna.
I'm expecting the lead single to feature Drake, Offset and Ty Dolla $ign.
I had her down as releasing this on February 8 but Ariana is now releasing then.
Imagine if she releases on the same day
Surely were due something soon?
I also now think we aren’t getting a lead single, pre order type situation I think we’re just getting the ALBUM
Then whatever track/s catch on the most with the GP will be the single.
I think she may have a few videos already filmed but I can’t see her releasing a full visual album, although I may be wrong.
Maybe for her birthday (20th February) we'll get something, although she's never been the type of artist to use significant dates or numbers in her album campaigns, like Beyoncé has
Seen on twitter today that a producer on the album The Dream has stated that the album is almost done.
Good to hear.
Hopefully she waits until the Ari album has died down a bit, otherwise she risks getting overshadowed. Also think she'd benefit from a surprise album drop.
Twitter seems to think she’s finished recording the album now.
Nothing from her account but an account titled @TeamofRihanna tweeted it tonight.
If true something should be coming soon.
Yeah and then Rihanna replied on someone's Insta comments basically saying it's not finished til she says it is...
37 days to go until this matches the gap between Unapologetic and ANTI.
Will she break the gap and have R9 become the longest ever wait for a Rihanna studio album?
He doesn't look impressed!
Lady Gaga just followed Rihanna on Instagram so her fans are speculating that they've worked together on LG6 *.*
When this finally comes
I remember initially thinking this would come out in June but now I honestly feel it could be a Q4 release. I actually still think this is still being recorded and she hasn’t finished it yet. She is a perfectionist after all. .
So excited to hear this though I’m totally READY for the slayage.
2019 really is the year of female pop megastars.
me deserving a copy of R9..
Adele can stay in hiding.
C'mon Rihanna. We waiting.
From her recent interview we got some small bits of info.
It’s a reggae album.
Lady Gaga isn’t on it as of yet she said she hasn’t recorded with her but isn’t opposed too.
The album doesn’t have a title yet either and she’s feeling R9 as a title.
Nothing on the release date.
When do you think that she most likely to release new material in the summer months, or October/November time?
She should just release a few standalone singles if the album isn't ready yet. If it's a reggae album a Summer release would be ideal but is looking unlikely at this point.
Yes, she could release new material in August time and then release the album in October/November time.
Genuinely think it'll be summer 2020. I'm so inpatient right now.
This will be her last album for a long time (if not ever) I feel.
The daydrinking sketch with Seth Meyers, where her FIRST question for advice to him was 'if I quit music, what should I do?', really spoke volumes. She doesn't like making music anymore.
I’d be devastated if she fully quit.
I’ve seen a lot of people who have the opinion you have though @Atonement
I mean artists like Lady Gaga for instance do other stuff on the side but you can music is her passion above anything else. With Rihanna at the moment it seems like she’s venturing into like a Victoria Beckham possibly? Establishing herself as a power brand and business woman.
I feel like albums from her are gonna be more rare now though like 4 years will probably be the new norm now. But I don’t think she’s gonna quit full stop. But if she did she does have a huge legacy.
I’m hopeful she may get back her passion though. Maybe at the moment she’s feeling a lack of creativity musically and that’s why it feels the albums taking forever. She seems as though she wants to make music now what has meaning to her rather than doing what she done during her peak when her albums were rush recorded and just recorded whatever was handed to her. She seems more involved in the writing process now.
I’m also wondering if her tour this time around will be smaller. Maybe like what Madonna’s doing with her Madame X shows?
I think this will be her final album before she becomes a mother but maybe that will spark her creative spirit and give us her ROL album.
I don’t feel she’ll ever quit full stop. But her releases now will be as often as like a Adele album is.
OMG
Surely it’s a sign
This binch.
At least this kind of confirms it's still coming in 2019. I can't wait to love the music but be disappointed with her apathy and lack of involvement in the rest of the era.
Basically confirms a release by the end of the year then? At least that's something!!
Adele releasing seems possible
The big pop girls all seem to be releasing this year.
With Taylor releasing in August I think it’ll be at least October before a new Rihanna album.
Singles wise though if the albums fully reggae the perfect time for a summer smash is now!
I do feel we’re gonna get everything at the same time though.
It looks like Pharrell is working on this new album. Hopefully it's only a few songs.
Pharrell can be good, for some reason he just... wasn't for Sweetener.
This could equally turn out to be like the Kanye West / Anti era productions.
But any news on this is welcomed by me
You know before we got Work from Anti was there any news on that in the days before it was released or did it seemingly come out of nowhere?
I still legit wake up and every day go onto Twitter and iTunes just to check that the album hasn’t dropped as I’ve been sleeping.
We are getting Spotify SUPPORT
I think she’ll break the record for most streams week one by a female tbh
10 pages for an album we know nothing about yet! Amazing!! The world is HUNGRY. Shame Rih isn’t x
From the Spotify comments (she’s followed them on insta) and how much she keeps specifying there’s lots of 2019 left I’m anticipating an early Autumn start for the ERA. After that...I’m not sure as the way she speaks about music sounds like she kinda cba lol but I’m going to just try and enjoy this era for now.
I’d happily wait longer if meant we got promotion in terms of the album and more than anything like drive and enthusiasm in terms of her music career.
I worry that could be lacking at the moment and i wouldn’t want an album and nothing else. Like I want big promo, killer videos and a real like RETURN.
ANTI as someone from the UK i don’t feel we had that but in the USA the album slayed.
I want the drive Rihanna had for her music from 2007-2012.
I seen this on Twitter I don’t know where the source come from I screengrabbed it last night but this is what was said.
“Rihanna keeps adding songs when she should really start to think what songs to put on her album since it is going to be a ten to twelve song album. There were thoughts to do a double album but what has won out is to do a single album of her favourite tracks she has recorded. She has picks that are going to be on it, but there are still some thoughts on adding certain tracks because she has a lot of good music recorded. So, the current problem and good problem to have in her eyes is that she has many good ideas and is still recording. She is just looking for all the gems”.
“As of last month Rihanna was still requesting songs from producers and writers, she has so many great songs, but until she’s a thousand percent satisfied she isn’t putting out the album, and only Rihanna knows when that will be. She is well aware that her fans want the album and she, of course has been getting tons of pressure from the label to put it out, but she’s not the type of person to compromise her vision to give in to demands. She’s still promising to get it out this year, but no one is going to be that shocked if she pushes the release yet again, she does what she wants and no one can tell her other wise”
I think this will flop for her tbh! She had a big taste of that with Breathe In, Breathr Out, and those other songs I can't even remember before Drake gave her Work.
She doesn't even need to do promo, the hype and Spotify push will be massive.
I just heard Greg James on Radio 1 say that there are rumours a huge popstar is releasing a single on Thursday with Rih and Adele 2 possibilities - the first I've heard of these rumours but he sounded very hyped for new music from Rihanna and even played Only Girl (In the World) in anticipation so there's clearly still widespread appeal
So.. there’s news of this being a big US TV takeover with a lot of big shows expecting a special guest who’s unnnamed at present.
The shows are late night shows right? So it’s possible that there’s an announcement coming (the interviews already having been recorded or are being recorded over the next few days) before the music possibly drops at midnight on Friday.
This is pretty exciting.
Rihanna seems likely. I don’t think it’s Adele as I feel like she’d announce it on UK TV first.
Gaga could also be an outside bet as well. I wouldn’t be that surprised if it was her but with her Beauty brand just launching i just don’t know.
I guess we will know soon. By this article the main name confusing me is Selena Gomez. I just don’t feel she’s huge enough to warrant that big a takeover.
I’m guessing whoever it is probably has some form of press injunction in place until Thursday night.
https://capitalfm.co/31gIz29
If it's not Gaga, I'd love it to be Rih!
Rihanna seems likely tbh.
But I think because I’m desperate for new music from her I’m finding ways to make all clues fit to it being her.
But I will say this
Summer is good timing for reggae music which is what Rihanna’s album is.
August 23rd will see Taylor releasing so if it’s an album drop releasing two weeks before means hopefully easy #1 (Taylor’s huge isn’t
she for first week US sales so makes sense she may wanna release earlier).
If Adele is also releasing she may wanna release before Adele who’s likely to be Q4. ANTI was pushed back bc of Adele wasn’t it.
The TV takeover Rihanna would definitely be big enough to do to command audiences on all major shows. Hype would be huge but she needs some big promo and this would certainly be it!!
Even if it’s just a single drop what a way to comeback for her if it is her.
I’ve always strongly felt though that when the albums done she’s not gonna hang around and she’s just gonna drop the entire album. Probably get the physical CD a few weeks later but up for streaming and iTunes download right away.
December release apparently
If Adele’s really releasing in November this won’t be going to #1 or at least not debuting there.
Coldplay couldn’t hold her off #1 here when 25 come out so I don’t feel Rihanna would although it could do a Loud and go to #1 the following year.
does Rihanna care about chart positions? she did all the Tidal mess last time...
She pushed ANTI back though didn’t she so it didn’t clash with 25?
Although that was a big US #1 album which kinda overshadows it’s more modest performance in the UK (#7 peak).
I don’t think it’ll be as messy this time around. Her streaming sales should be higher too I wouldn’t be shocked this time if her streaming sales alone were more than what ANTI did first week in the UK.
December release however would mean better sales regardless of where it peaks.
More about the album:
i hate her so much GIVE ME A SONG ANYTHING GOD omg
also i think she's better than the Super Bowl at this point pls dont do it
Ugh I hate her.
But I'm happy for her she's successful in other areas she's so passionate about.
I love the way she said I’ve still got an album to finish
Omg what is she doing
The Pop Hub and Music News Fact on Twitter are saying the album has funds of approx $50M according to HDD
Does this mean that’s what it’s cost to make?
Oh I see!
I’m still so eager and ready for new music!
I’m feeling like Grammys and BRITs feel likely for promo.
Kinda beginning to feel as though this is gonna be coming in either January or February 2020 though.
Rumour has it that she is gonna be doing a dual album release. One reggae and one inspired by her evolution! FUCK YES!
Is this double disc or like two totally seperate albums like sweetener and thank u, next where they’ll chart separately
If that rumour is true I think I’ll probably prefer the evolution one but it’s hard to predict. I’ve always liked reggae like Rihanna but I don’t know how I’d feel of like a full album of tracks like Man Down, No Love Allowed.
Twitter seems to think that the album title is Balance judging off her latest insta post. I like it as a title but could just be her talking about the balance of all her projects she has going on rather than referring to the album
There’s only one Friday left in 2019 Rihanna promised us way back at start of year this was coming in 2019.
She’s also teased she’s listening to the album? I feel it’s coming soon (but tbh I’ve said this so many y times in this thread ). A surprise release on fri 27th? That way escaping the Xmas market and avoiding getting lost in it with the physical release coming the second Friday in January? Guess we will see.
The only real thing I’ve always thought would happen this era is that we would get a surprise drop and not a campaign with a lead single (or multiple singles / promo singles) and then album release weeks later. She’s gonna drop the whole thing then let us decide what the singles will be.
I don't think it's still coming in 2019.
Bets on it being New Years Eve?
if she drops this tomorrow that would make my christmas!!
Is it too late for this to still happen in 2019 lmao *.*
What time in the day did Beyoncé release her surprise albums? Was it like US midnight?
I keep checking all my social feeds to see if it’s dropped
I’m here for a 1st 2020 release. Just to troll us
She better release 31st Dec lmao!
I think if anything does come out it'll be midnight US time but idk now
Well we didn’t get R9 in 2019! But the good news is that it’s coming this year (fingers crossed).
I’m so ready for her to just slay once again!
Have to post this here :')
^haha genious
I really need the album.
Can't believe she released 1 album in the last 7 years but 7 albums in the first 7 years of her career .
I don't see anything coming any time soon. Might have to boycott the makeup line.
I think we’re gonna get the entire album at once when this does eventually get released. Whether that’s next week or next year
I’m so shook at her releasing 7 albums in 7 years then one album in the last 7 years I honestly didn’t realise it’d been that long till I seen that post!! She really was the equivalent of Ariana now for a time!
Do people think the albums actually done or not?
The only new bit of info I’ve seen what’s album related is that Shaggy turned down a chance to be on it because he didn’t want to audition. That’s come from him though not her.
It seems like Rihanna is back in the studio!
What if her spilt has left her feeling inspired for some new material?
Please give us another Stay Ri!
She’s in the studio on my birthday (Valentines Day) with Pharrell.
Unfortunately that didn't happen there for Rihanna.
She should make a song about the coronavirus and SMASH.
(actually she should not)
from her Vogue interview
Probably then in October, we'll hear something from R9 hopefully.
She’s right in that she’s done everything! That’s partly why she’s had so much success because of her versatility. I’m excited for whatever sound she goes for on R9.
I’m guessing Q4 is a likely estimated time for this to come. We’re just gonna wake up one day and it’ll be out no build up, no lead single release weeks before, no countdown just a surprise release and that day will feel so magical.
Rih is hilarious. Pray for R9.
Everytime I see a comment in this thread my first feeling is she’s dropped the album!!!
Not this completely unreleased album having more posts than Unapologetic!
I, like the rest of the world joke this is coming in like 2093 or something lol but I actually do think it's coming this year for sure. The world is hungry for new Rihanna though, the thirst is real. I'm totally expecting her to just drop it with no prior single/pre-order so ironically it would be more of a surprise if we actually got a 'traditional' album campaign lol. I don't really mind what she comes up with as long as it's good. Urban, pop, reggae, the time she's been working on this I trust another masterpiece is coming.
I'm not sure I can cope after last year though, on New Year's actual Eve I constantly refreshed my Spotify from midnight to 5am looking for a new album to find NOTHING
The corona virus might have delayed the project slightly but I definitely think we are getting an album.
I definitely think by now she’d have said if there wasn’t one! It’s just looking likely that it might potentially be a 2021 release who knows.
I guess they didn’t have much stories to report on so they invented one
She talked about the album during her Fenty Skin interviews, said it'll be out "sooner than my fans think":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMV1gOnhMQ
Whatever that means but there's probably hope for a 2020 release after all. She also said it's taken this long so she'll make it worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8o893pfGtc
I knew she wouldn't let us down
(*The album comes in 2027*)
I’ve been off my phone for like 8 hours so when I seen this had a comment of just a few minutes ago I thought she’d done a Taylor
I think it’s kinda possible we might get a usual Q4 type release for this but I honestly don’t know. It’s nice she’s mentioned the album at least but sooner than my fans think could mean anything like when do we as fans think this is coming. I was thinking at some point next year because of COVID so that’s made me think it’s coming at some point this year. Who knows.
I definitely think this is a surprise drop though
The gap between albums has nearly been 5 years now. That's like the duration between Music Of The Sun and Loud. The wait is too long I'm close to rihtiring.
I’m not losing hope this is coming soon, P!nk took five years between The Truth About Love and Beautiful Trauma (ik she had a side project in between those). She released an album just two years after BT so hopefully getting back on the promo trail will give Rih ‘the bug’ in terms of making music again and it won’t be light years until R10, that’s what I’m clinging to at least 😅
When we get the album I’m sure it’ll be a ‘surprise’ drop but it’d be more surprising to me if she put up a pre-order with bundles and vinyls *.* PLEASE reward us with the physicals after ANTI’s release was so botched!
Rihanna’s main passion with the music she makes is now she’s making the kind of music she wants to create. I guess when she was huge and releasing an album each year her say on what want on those albums might not have been like the final one and she’s definitely way more involved in the writing process on her albums now than she was back then (perhaps Rated R is the other exception to that).
I’m torn on what I want. A surprise drop would work Rih and I do think her first week sales will be bigger than ANTIs but I’d also love bundles etc to just maximise on that first week. I’m so ready though for new music. I’d love it to come in November but my feeling is perhaps another January release for this. I would love a real campaign for the era too but yeah I didn’t really see that. Maybe a few performances here and there and a tour but with this album being a real comeback album for her I really hope she releases it when it’s safe to fully go in and promote.
I know R9 is going to be a game changer when it is released. It seems like she is very happy with the music she has done for the album. It is just finding the right timing for the release. I think 2021 will be the year we will finally get this album. The preview she played of Real High at SavageXFenty showed she is coming with something FRESH!
A track called 'Real High' has been registered with BMI.
The ‘2019’ in the thread description is making me emotional
I think I’ll update the 2019 date now
What is she waiting for? It's been 5 years!
It's crazy to think that a decade ago she was practically releasing albums weekly and now we've had such long gaps between the last two!
Is she ever gonna release this damn album or what? It is not even funny anymore.
If she is waiting for the COVID-19 craze to be over then good luck with that.
Interesting.
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/rihanna-says-her-long-awaited-ninth-studio-album-is-going-to-be-completely-different__34097/
i'm guessing its changed from being a 2 cd - one reggae, one standard Rihanna R&B/Pop? Wonder if there's something more going on behind the scenes... i know shes been enjoying Fenty Beauty and the easy income?
We need rock/industrial Rihanna with some ace choreos and some caribbean flavor.
Maybe she has just found the perfectionist in her after Anti was so well received and a commercial success? It's one of the benchmark albums of recent times, something that she wasn't used to when hurrying them albums once a year.
There are rumours about an upcoming Bad Bunny collaboration, but as always, I believe it when I see it.
Yeah yeah me too. What is it? Approaching 6 years now? Oh well I’m here for it when it happens,
Now we are in 2022, will this be the year we finally get this album...
Bless us with R9 in 2022 RiRi plz.
Not necessarily an update but I seen this.
I wonder if a whole decade will pass without her having released an album.
By the time she releases that damn album it will sound completely dated.
Ray of Lightbhas some of my favourite Madonna songs, so I’d be all in if Rihanna produced something similar.
you can't rush music
Only 2 of her albums had any real creativity to them (Rated R & Anti)... the rest were album after album cycle, so it's an odd thing for her to say.
Will this be the year we get that album from her?!
At the very least we have a Super Bowl show to look forward too but I really feel like new music (music what is related to an album campaign of hers! ) must be a stronger possibility at this stage of the year than any year since 2016… or am I being too optimistic
(On another note) - First post of 2023
The Superbowl is a positive sign. Hopefully she announces something before then.
I'm expecting the album might be late 2023 or even in 2024. With mutliple single releases throughout 2023 - some of which may or may not make the album. Similar to the build up to Anti with the likes of "FourFiveSeconds"/"Bitch Better Have My Money"/"American Oxygen".
At this point she should just "surprise" release it, preferably around the time of the Superbowl performance.
I'm expecting a single or EP with the SB gig but nothing more.
I'd probably say a Greatest Hits is most likely.
Yeah I am expecting a Greatest Hits album for the Superbowl something similar to The Weeknd's The Highlights.
No way, she has too many hits to have a GH
I'm hoping for a new album dropped out of the blue, Ri's folklore
Rihanna doesn't need a 10 month album campaign with 6 pre-album singles, she's not Ella Henderson
I agree she could drop an album out of the blue and doesn’t need many pre album singles. I just feel like she’d need at least one.
If it’s a Greatest Hits hopefully there’s a new few new songs to go with it.
I’m living in hope (hopefully not delusion) that we will at some point get this album.
The Super Bowl has me feeling like her return to music and a new campaign is coming soon. How big is her power though that 7 years have passed without an album and she’s still pulling the amount of hype, discussion and streams that she is. She really is a megastar
I’d love that, but sadly I think I’m still a little skeptical. Hopefully it’s true though.
Rihanna talks about the prospect of a new album in her British Vogue interview:
She is (still) not ready to deliver (the album).
I've resigned myself to it not coming ever, and if I'm being honest the two soundtrack songs from last year dampened my hype for new Rihanna music anyway
I don't think she is very interested in music any more sadly.
I miss her so much! I know we fairly recently had the new music tied to the Black Panther soundtrack but new music whats tied to a campaign would be such a dream! All her albums are different from one another and if you look at her lead singles each one is such a big switch from the previous.
I’m still hopeful that one day we will get this album eventually but maybe not this year
I’d get excited but we’ve had hundreds of “album is coming” rumours already so I’ll believe it when I see it
I'm sure if she does a tour, there will be an album too.
but 2?
I seen this earlier in week and forgot to post! I mean what are we thinking here?! Believe it when we see it?
He’s definitely amongst my favourite of her frequent collaborators that she’s worked with although I think the new music we get from her will be completely different as we all know she frequently changes genres / sounds with her music.
Almost at the end of an another year now without this album. 2024 to finally be the year?!
Surely if a Live Nation deal is signed for later this year, we should be getting something in the coming months? I can't believe it's been 8 years since Anti.
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