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Why Rihanna hasn’t released an album in six years

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“Pon de Replay” to her 2007 Grammy winner “Umbrella” to her last No. 1 smash, 2016’s “Work.” But after hitting what many consider to be her artistic peak with her last album “Anti” — which was released six years ago on Jan.

28, 2016 — Rihanna largely went M.I.A. from music. Yes, there has been the occasional guest feature such as “Wild Thoughts” with DJ Khaled and “Loyalty” with Kendrick Lamar — both released in 2017 — but it’s been six long years since she’s delivered her own album.“ ‘Anti’ was everything.

And then she was like, ‘Yo, I’m done,’ ” said Vibe R&B reporter Mya Abraham, who considers herself “part of the Navy” of Rihanna fans. “She was just like, ‘That was everything that I had at that moment for one album, and I’m gonna take a break and put [my energy] into other things.’ ”And while Rihanna has teased eager fans on social media that new music is coming for a couple of years — there were even rumors swirling around that she was working on a reggae album at one point — no firm plans to release anything have been revealed. (But of course, there’s always the chance of a surprise drop at any time.)“I can’t say when I’m going to drop,” Rihanna told British Vogue in 2020. “But I am very aggressively working on music.”But as much as she was once grinding in music, Rihanna is now grinding in beauty and fashion.

She launched her Fenty Beauty line in 2017 and then followed that by debuting her Savage x Fenty lingerie brand in 2018. Those companies turned the 33-year-old artist born Robyn Rihanna Fenty into a billionaire — last year Forbes reported that she has amassed a $1.7 billion fortune, making her the world’s richest female musician.

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