Rihanna To Reportedly Go On World Tour To Perform New Album

Rihanna’s musical reign is reportedly getting a breath of new life. According to The Daily Mirror, Rihanna is planning a world tour.

"Rihanna is quietly planning a comeback tour after signing with Live Nation," an insider said. "The deal was created to facilitate a world tour and her creative team is quietly at work in Los Angeles putting it all together as she raises her family."

The source also stated that the singer has two albums worth of recordings ready to go whenever she sees fit to release. The tour, however, is reportedly set to take place between 2024 and 2025.

While Rihanna hasn't released an album since 2016's Anti, the Bajan singer has been putting on for her live performances. Her biggest one to date was her historical performance at the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show back in February. The singer performed a medley of her greatest hits, including "Rude Boy," "Bitch Better Have My Money," "Run This Town," and more, before ending with "Diamonds." Her performance is the most-watched Super Bowl Halftime show in history, with 121 million live viewers. Rihanna's singing was not the only part of her performance that made headlines. The singer revealed at the top of the show by quickly rubbing her belly that she was pregnant with her and A$AP Rocky's second child. The couple just welcomed their second son together Riot Rose back in August. Their first child, RZA, was born in May 2022.

The Super Bowl was not the only place that Rihanna performed in front of a live audience as of late. The Anti creator performed her Oscar-nominated song "Lift Me Up" at theOscars this year. The song was a part of the soundtrack of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

As for new music, the singer teased that fans should look out for a new project dropping sometime this year. "It'd be ridiculous if it's not this year," she told British Vogue back in March. "But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make videos," she said.

The beauty industry has evolved in ways that have become more inclusive for deeper skin tones. Prior to Rihanna's launch of Fenty Beauty, there were very few makeup brands that offered a wide selection of foundation based on undertones for deeper skin tones. The change was made apparent when the deeper shades began to sell out first when Fenty Beauty launched its 40 shades of foundation (which has since expanded to 50) in 2017. Following its debut, the beauty brand was honored as one of the 25 best inventions by Time Magazine.

Fenty Beauty's slogan is "Beauty For All" and she told the publication at the time how it also encompasses the future of the brand. "It was important that every woman felt included," Rihanna said, adding, "I love challenges so I’m going to continue to have fun and push the boundaries in this industry."

Shortly after Fenty Beauty's launch, other makeup brands, such as Makeup Forever began to follow suit and target women of color in their campaigns and in their products.

Fenty Beauty has since expanded, including concealers, highlighters, mascara, and more. The same year the foundation dropped, so did the Red Stunna Lip Paint lipstick. Rihanna is known for wearing bright red lipstick, so it was a no-brainer that one of the first lipsticks the company put out was bright red. After its success, the makeup brand expanded the collection to include other colors like soft pink, chocolate brown, black, deep purple, and nude peach.

Besides lipsticks, Fenty Beauty's other claim to fame was their "gloss bombs." Retailing at $21.00, the lipglosses come in shimmering pink, rose nude, diamond milk (clear with extra sparkles), soft pink, rich brown, clear, and rose mauve nude. She has also expanded that collection to include "heat" lipglosses with a plumping effect. Fenty Beauty products are sold at Sephora, Ulta Beauty, and online at fentybeauty.com.

Take a look at four other makeup brands founded by Black women below:

Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty in 2017. Her brand shook up the beauty standard when she launched her foundation options ranging in over 40 shades (now 50) to grab an inclusive audience. Some popular products at Fenty Beauty are the gloss bomb, the Diamond Bomb All-Over Diamond Veil highlighter, and Pro Filt'r soft matte foundation.

Explore more here.

Rapper Bia launched Beauty For Certain in 2022. The name of her beauty brand is a play on words from her 2020 EP For Certain. Beauty For Certain sells lipstick, eyeshadow, highlighters, and more.

Learn more about Beauty For Certain by Bia here.

Alicia Key's brand Keys Soulcare moved into the beauty sector in 2022. Keys named the collection Make You which offers a tinted lip balm, a cheek tint and brow gel. You can learn more about her products here.

Iman Cosmetics was founded by supermodel Iman in 1994. It launched to give women of color applicable shade ranges for makeup and supplemental skincare choices not available in variety at the time. You can learn more about Iman Cosmetics here.

Celebrity makeup artist turned entrepreneur, Pat McGrath is known for one of the most pigmented makeup lines to date. She curated this line with melanin in mind as all of the colors in her eyeshadow palletes, blushes, lipsticks, and more compliment fair and deep skintones. You can learn more about Pat McGrath Labs here.