{"id":99123,"date":"2025-08-28T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99123\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:26:07","slug":"rihanna-reveals-surprise-to-mark-20th-anniversary-of-her-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99123\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna reveals surprise to mark 20th anniversary of her debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With her last studio album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/rihanna-anti\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ANTI<\/a> released almost a decade ago, could something be coming soon?<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Rihanna-new-album-20-years.jpg\" alt=\"Rihanna new album 20 years\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><br \/>\n      MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/12203\/rihanna\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Where every Rihanna song and album has charted in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, fans will have to wait a little longer, as her management and label Roc Nation announced the 20-year anniversary surprise to be a new line of merch, dropping on Friday 29 August to celebrate her debut album.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">20 years with you. This Friday marks 20 years since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rihanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Rihanna<\/a> released her debut album. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/R20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#R20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HTzwwZWwC\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/7HTzwwZWwC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zhgt9SyYiv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zhgt9SyYiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roc Nation (@RocNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocNation\/status\/1960785121839047075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music Of The Sun peaked at Number 35 on its release in 2005, with the lead single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/rihanna-pon-de-replay\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pon De Replay<\/a> just missing out on top spot at Number 2. Since then, she&#8217;s earned nine Number 1 singles and four chart-topping albums.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Rihanna released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/rihanna-friend-of-mine\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Friend Of Mine<\/a>, the official soundtrack to the Smurfs movie.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With her last studio album ANTI released almost a decade ago, could something be coming soon? MORE: Where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,50,6935,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rihanna","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}