The album's definitely coming before Xmas now with the tickets for the tour being released next week hopefully going to try get tickets for Sunderland or Manchester

has it really been three years since she has released anything?

am i getting that old

She last toured in 2013 - seen her the Stadium of Light and she was incredible.

She has had like 2 collabs and 3 singles out since the last album...

I actually cannot wait to hear what she has come up with!
I liked the direction of FFS and BBHMM

I'm genuinely getting excited but starting to doubt the 27th release date. 4th December seems more likely as only the first of the 8 ANTIdiaRy rooms are open at the moment.

A reminder of the stuff we've seen from it so far:
http://rihannadaily.com/2015/11/23/a...e-know-so-far/

I'm slightly shocked at the stadium tour announcement. I went to her last tour and it was *the* worst concert I've ever been too. Everybody around us was in agreement too. Very disappointing. She simply doesn't have what it needs to be a stadium act. Funnily enough she was amazing at the O2 arena a few years before.

I vowed never to see her again.

I'm disappointed shes doing stadiums. I haven't made my mind up whether I'm gunna get tickets, waiting on a friend to get back to me on if shes free in June. I'm even more disappointed shes doing Hampden instead of Murrayfield [that is if she HAS to do stadiums].

I'm really shocked its a stadium tour, I was really expected [and would have perfered] an arena tour. I wonder why shes doing stadiums???

Never seen her live but have watched her headline performance at Radio 1 Big Weekend a few years back and thought she was great so I don't see why she can't translate that to stadiums. Will she sell the tickets though?

thats a good point

wembley stadium is 60k plus capacity right?

will that many people want to see her?

Money? I am guessing stadiums have far more seats which = ££££

What was bad about her concert, and what do you think is lacking in order to do successful stadium tours?

Lack of big enough stage presence for a start. She also made absolutely no connection to the audience what so ever. I was really disappointed by the whole thing. We were sat pretty close too, so it can't even be blamed on me having crap seats at the back. The fact she didn't perform any decent songs until about halfway through didn't help matter either.

As I said, when I saw her at the O2 she was decent, but she just couldn't hold a stadium. Some artists can, some artists can't. Rihanna couldn't.

I would say she could do it in London but I would have thought she would needed to have done this on the back of a massive smash single or a great album rather than this messy campaign.

I'm surprised that it's a stadium tour too. I'm not convinced that she could sell out a stadium.

Well considering her last tour had sold out stadiums in the UK... I think she'll be fine!

DS have ranked her albums from worst to best ahead of the new album:

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/feat...worst-to-best/

Can't say I like how they've placed Unapologetic so low as it's underrated imo. My ranking:

7. Music of the Sun
6. A Girl Like Me
5. Talk That Talk
4. Good Girl Gone Bad
3. Loud
2. Unapologetic
1. Rated R

Also it looks like the second room of ANTIdiaRy will be unlocked tomorrow.

Im just relieved that here in north america its a regular arena tour, i hate stadium shows

Probably but still, the last tour came on the back of a) a massive hit in Diamonds and b) essentially 7 years of non-stop campaigning and hit singles.

Album is out on Tidal

I must say this Tidal thing may damage her imo...Tidal has kinda flopped and isnt on the same level as Spotify and Apple Music. I know she is close with Jay-Z and all but i won't be surprised if the album doesn't sell well if they restrict its release.

i can't see it on there? i think she'd be stupid to keep it a tidal only exclusive, pretty sure she's doing a general release on the 4th of december.

The album is NOT out on Tidal at all.

She's really beginning to test the patience of her fans. We were expecting R2 to open a few hours ago but instead we got yet another cryptic tweet. It's a mess.

I just checked Amazon seeing as there were rumours that the record was out today. It isn't.

I'm getting impatient too, I'd forgotten or at least stopped waiting, then the hints created anticipation that has thus been unfounded. Can we at least get a new song or something we have nothing save for a tour. Will the three singles even be on the album, what is its direction. I'm getting annoyed now.

Artists are not always in control of when their albums are due for release so this could be Roc Nations problem. Not Rihanna. Although Rihanna is known to go over schedule with recording her albums. Rated R wasn't completed until 12 hours before it was sent off to manufacturing.

True LM, there is a case for due to stand out singles thus far a slew of re-recording, along with a changing release plan due to Tidal being a damp squib. That said it has been months so it could have been rejigged, re-recorded and finished by now. As for the campaign it has picked up in a very slow manner with tid bits here and there. So it's like who is in control and why is it take so long what has happened or is going on?

R2: The Studio is now open. This room includes another snippet of Only If For A Night and also some people claim they can hear Gaga's voice on another clip so that could be a possible collaboration.

Here's the OIFAN video:

https://youtu.be/0UoJyED73bQ

I'm loving the visuals.