courtesy of Instagram/@badgalririMusicNewsMusic / NewsA new Rihanna album is coming next yearThe 2019 release date was revealed in an Instagram commentShareLink copied ✔️December 23, 2018December 23, 2018TextThom Waite Replying to a fan’s question about when her new album will drop, Rihanna has simply replied, “2019”.The lowkey reveal took place in the comments section of an Instagram post promoting a new Fenty Beauty line (dropping December 26). While “2019” is pretty vague, it does provide some assurance that a new album is on its way. In a cover story for Vogue, published back in May, the singer suggested she wanted to make a reggae album, so maybe that gives some pointers as to what we can expect (or maybe not, tbh we’re just guessing). Although fans are pretty desperate to hear a new album from Rih – her last, Anti, came out in 2016 – she has a pretty good range of excuses for the delay. In September, her Savage x Fenty label debuted at NYFW, she’s been working on Fenty Beauty, and she plays a couple with Donald Glover (jealous) in the trailer for a new film, Guava Island, by Hiro Murai. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop tracksMeet The Deep, K-pop’s antihero ‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversationIs art finally getting challenging again?The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising starLella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music sceneThe rise of Sweden’s post-pop undergroundNeda is the singer-songwriter blending Farsi classics with Lily Allen 6 Flog Gnaw artists on what’s inspiring them right now