Rihanna Coming to Belgrade October 8 for ASAP Rocky Concert
Kurir reports that Rihanna will secretly travel to Belgrade on October 8 to support her partner ASAP Rocky at his concert in Belgrade Arena. There is still no official confirmation.
Rihanna could be in Belgrade on October 8, according to Kurir, which cites unnamed sources close to the arrangements for her visit. The reason isn’t a show of her own, but a concert by her partner ASAP Rocky at Belgrade Arena, part of the European leg of his “Don’t Be Dumb” tour, organized by Skymusic.
Rocky added the Belgrade Arena date to the European leg of “Don’t Be Dumb,” a run that covers more than 40 cities. Belgrade, alongside Zagreb and several other regional capitals, is one of the stops Skymusic is putting together.
According to Kurir, the couple will fly into Belgrade on a private jet from Zagreb, where Rocky performs on October 6. The same source says they plan to stay in the Serbian capital for about 24 hours, checking into a luxury hotel with round the clock security. A short van tour of the city is also an option, if they want one. Kurir adds that Rihanna is traveling with the couple’s children; the two have three together.
Rihanna has been by Rocky’s side for the entire European tour, and their joint appearances regularly go viral. A few days ago, at a concert in Copenhagen, she walked out on stage and held their son Riot in her arms in front of the crowd, rather than watching the show from the audience the way she had done earlier on the tour. Footage of that moment is still circulating on social media.
B92 first wrote about Rihanna’s possible trip to Belgrade back on September 22, but at the time it was framed as an open question, without the concrete details on travel dates or length of stay that Kurir is now reporting. Neither the concert’s organizer nor Rihanna’s team has officially confirmed the visit, so for now it remains an unconfirmed report built on unnamed sources.
Tickets for ASAP Rocky’s Belgrade Arena concert are on sale through eFinity.rs, the eFinity app, and at official points of sale.
If Rihanna does come, it would mark her first return to Belgrade since November 24, 2007, when she played a sold out Arena in front of roughly 20,000 people as part of her “Good Girl Gone Bad” tour. That night she performed, among other songs, “Pon de Replay,” “SOS,” “Unfaithful,” and closed the set with “Umbrella.” Nineteen years on, if this report holds up, she wouldn’t be coming back to Belgrade for a tour of her own, but to watch her partner perform.
Until October 8, it’s still an open question whether Rihanna will join Rocky on stage the way she did in Copenhagen, or watch the show from the crowd as she had done earlier on the tour. Neither side has confirmed that either, so readers are left to wait and see whether Kurir’s report pans out, or whether, like B92’s story from September 22, the visit stays just an open question.
