Long Time Coming: Delayed Albums

LPs that may or may not come out this millennium.

Make-Up Is the New Music? - Delayed albums are as quintessential to the music business as rap beefs are to the Twitter world, but sometimes artists end up delivering on time; other times not at all. Take Rihanna, who in the midst of a massive album delay, has announced the launching of her own beauty agency.Rihanna’s seventh album, Unapologetic, really solidified her current standing as a superstar. Rumors began to circulate about the then named (by fans, of course) #R8 as soon as her Diamonds Tour ended in 2013. The Bajan beauty never plays and squashed the rumors really fast by tweeting out “Any news about #R8 will be delivered directly from me!!!!”Finally, in October 2015, we got an official album cover and title, Anti. No word on a release date but Rihanna did cancel her scheduled appearance for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November to [reportedly] finish her new albu...
Kanye West, SWISH - Kanye is always...everywhere. He’s designing, producing, ranting — you name it. The release of music has been consistently active, starting with “Only One” (an ode to baby North), “FourFiveSeconds” (a heavy feature rumored to be on Rihanna’s record) and “All Day” (which seems to be a more fitting peek into the new album). Rumors in May 2015 that Kanye’s seventh album was going to be released through Apple stream on June 8 never came to bear any fruit and we’re still anxiously waiting.(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
Frank Ocean, Boys Don't Cry - The boy who cried release. While the smartest artists are careful about throwing out a date for any anticipated album, Frank Ocean had the Internet in their feelings when it was reported that Boys Don’t Cry would arrive in July but never did.(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)TLC, Untitled - At the top of 2015, the record-breaking group announced that their next album would be the last for TLC. The real story is that this new album was actually financed by fans since the group took donations from die-hard stans on Kickstarter. They raised a deep $400,000 dollars. Now, fans await the release in 2016 while questioning where exactly their money has gone.(Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

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Make-Up Is the New Music? - Delayed albums are as quintessential to the music business as rap beefs are to the Twitter world, but sometimes artists end up delivering on time; other times not at all. Take Rihanna, who in the midst of a massive album delay, has announced the launching of her own beauty agency.Rihanna’s seventh album, Unapologetic, really solidified her current standing as a superstar. Rumors began to circulate about the then named (by fans, of course) #R8 as soon as her Diamonds Tour ended in 2013. The Bajan beauty never plays and squashed the rumors really fast by tweeting out “Any news about #R8 will be delivered directly from me!!!!”Finally, in October 2015, we got an official album cover and title, Anti. No word on a release date but Rihanna did cancel her scheduled appearance for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November to [reportedly] finish her new albu...

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