Rihanna says she has 170 unreleased songs in her archives

During a Fenty Beauty livestream, the singer suggested that her archive contains at least 170 recordings. She has not announced a date for a new music release.

Rihanna said her archive may contain at least 170 unreleased songs. She gave the estimate during a social media livestream for her cosmetics brand, Fenty Beauty, responding to fans with a joke about vaults of recordings.

“If there are ten products in a vault, then I have at least 17 vaults,” Rihanna said. Her remark points to roughly 170 tracks, though she did not specify exactly how many songs are in the archive or when they were recorded.

Fans have waited for years for the artist to return to music. Her most recent studio album, Anti, was released in 2016. Rihanna has not announced a timeline for another release or confirmed when she will return to music projects. In recent years, she has focused on Fenty Beauty and her family.