Rihanna: I Have at Least 17 Vaults, About 170 Songs
On a TikTok live for Fenty Beauty, the singer counted her unreleased songs in cosmetics sets. Her last album, ANTI, came out in 2016.
Rihanna has roughly counted the songs she never released: about 170. She did it in early October, during a live TikTok broadcast for her brand Fenty Beauty. The singer, 38, gave no exact figure and expressed it through a cosmetics set instead.
What exactly did Rihanna say about her unreleased songs?
She compared her songs to the Gloss Bomb Vault set, which contains 10 products. Her words:
“If one vault holds 10 products, then I have at least 17 vaults.”
Multiplied out, that comes to about 170 songs. “At least” leaves room for the real number to be higher, but Rihanna did not say an exact count.
Ten years after the album ANTI
She released her last studio album, ANTI, in 2016, and it produced the hits Work, Needed Me and Love on the Brain. The next one would be her ninth studio album, and no release date has been announced.
In the meantime she has focused on her brands, Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty. She returned to the stage in 2023 with the Super Bowl LVII halftime show, where she also revealed publicly that she was pregnant with her second child. With rapper A$AP Rocky she has three children: two sons, born in 2022 and 2023, and a daughter born in 2025.
What have A$AP Rocky and Rihanna said about the new album?
In August, A$AP Rocky confirmed on The Jason Lee Show that the singer is back in the studio. Asked whether he was to blame for her long break, he answered:
“Nah. She’s in the studio right now. Yeah, I said it. Sorry, baby.”
He added right away: “Bro, she’s working. She’s cooking something, no joke. Man, this is going to get me in trouble.”
Last year Rihanna told Harper’s Bazaar that she had finally “cracked the code” for the direction of the whole project. She also explained why the album has waited so long:
“That much time away from music has to carry weight in what everyone hears next. It has to be worth it. It has to matter. I have to show them it was worth the wait. I can’t put out anything average.”
In the same interview she said the sound would not be what audiences expect: “It won’t be anything anyone expects. And it won’t be commercial or made for radio. It will be exactly where my art deserves to be right now.”
Rihanna did not say which of the roughly 170 songs will end up on the album. The new record has no date, but the figure from the TikTok live is the first concrete indication of how much material has already been recorded for it.
