What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news
for all the Rihanna fans out there, but sadly that’s what I am today!
Rihanna has NO PLANS to release her 9th studio album anytime soon!
According to reports, Riri supposedly cancelled her plans to drop her ninth studio album in
2020 in order to focus on her beauty empire.
The Sun reported that Rihanna, who’s most recent album 'ANTI' was released back in 2016,
has made the decision to put her energy and money into a skincare line.
They said that Rihanna trademarked a new line called Buff Ryder, with insiders saying she
wants to become a beauty billionaire after seeing what the lockdowns have done to the
music industry.
As we’ve all seen, concerts and music festivals have been cancelled or postponed for the foreseeable
future and given they are usually such large events, they are likely going to be one of
the later things to come back.
So Rihanna is apparently taking this time and devoting it to her other business ventures
outside of music.
A source told The Sun that quote, “Rihanna’s ninth album is on hold indefinitely.
She wants to make her millions with beauty and is planning a new skincare line to go
alongside her Fenty Cosmetics range.”
They went on to say that quote, “Her lingerie range has [also] gone down so well too that
she feels she needs to strike while the iron’s hot.
Whenever she drops pics of her modelling the gear, sales go up.”
The insider concluded by saying “Fans hopes for R9 will be kept on hold while Rihanna
builds her beauty empire as she plots to become the next beauty billionaire.
She’s realized there is more money in the beauty game than music as record sales die
down and live touring faces big competition.”
And according to Forbes, over the past year, Rihanna’s net worth went from $210 million
to $600 million, making her the world’s richest female musician.
And most of that came not from her music, but from other businesses like Fenty Beauty,
Savage X Fenty lingerie, and Fenty, her high end fashion line with LVMH.
And with the amount Rihanna’s empire grew last year, it’s not so far off thinking
she could be a billionaire by this time next year if her businesses continue to thrive
at the same rate.
But as much as The Navy loves Rihanna’s other businesses, from the looks of Twitter,
they really just want music.
And fans are particularly disappointed because RiRi has been teasing new music for years
now.
She’s dropped various hints about the album and has even shared some photos and videos
being back in the studio.
But RiRi’s also admitted that she loves winding up The Navy even teasing them with
posts like this writing “update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.”
And now fans are taking to Twitter to share their thoughts on this news.
This fan said quote, “mad that rihanna hasn’t released new music but as long as she’s
happy that’s all that matters”
This person chimed in saying quote, “Gonna listen to ANTI for the 6574848 time and lament
over no news on new music from rihanna”
And this disappointed fan added “I just want Rihanna to release new music”
And some people even went as far as resurfacing this old Rihanna tweet calling out the outlet
that reported she won’t be dropping an album this year, hoping the rumors aren’t true.
This person also added quote “When will the day be when Adele and Rihanna are trending
for new music and not for anything else?
I am so tired”
And speaking of Adele, Rihanna isn’t the only one to delay plans for new music this
year.
Adele announced back in February that she would be dropping her new album this September,
but it seems those plans have been derailed as well.
Like Rihanna, Adele’s last album was years ago and fans have been desperately waiting
for new music.
But last month, Adele's manager Jonathan Dickins told Music Week that she won't be releasing
new music this fall and he wouldn't confirm when fans should expect it either.
Jonathan said quote, “It isn’t coming in September, it’ll be ready when it’s
ready.”
He continued on and explained quote, “We're all in the same boat, you’re doing stuff
and then all of a sudden, the world stops.
It’ll come when it’s ready.
I can’t put a date on that yet.
We have music, but we’re still working.”
So it sounds like new music from both Adele and Rihanna isn’t looking too promising
for 2020.
Here’s to hoping we get some new music from these two queens in 2021.
Now I’m looking forward to next year for even more reasons!
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And feel free to leave your thoughts down in the comments below, let us know if you’d
be bummed to wait longer for new Rihanna music or if you are more excited about her other
business ventures.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!