--- title: Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says description: Rihanna's eighth album, 'Anti,' may take some time for a reveal. canonical: https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-14T18:28:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:21:24.215Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says og:description: Rihanna's eighth album, 'Anti,' may take some time for a reveal og:url: https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358609555e9509b5/6988753c524fc0e518df5ea2/rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rihanna at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says twitter:description: Rihanna's eighth album, 'Anti,' may take some time for a reveal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358609555e9509b5/6988753c524fc0e518df5ea2/rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says ## Video: How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna [Watch (HLS stream): How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lZjUJAgB.m3u8) (1:04)  _Published 2015-03-17. On the 'Tonight Show' Monday, actor Jim Parsons revealed he's gotten really, really good at annoying his 'Home' co-star Rihanna._ by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Dec 14, 2015 6:28 PM UTC  Rihanna at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2015. Rihanna at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2015.Steve Granitz—Getty Images by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Dec 14, 2015 6:28 PM UTC It looks like Rihanna fans won’t get the December surprise they’ve been hoping for. In a fresh [BBC interview](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bq8dl), Sia commented that she recently played tracks for Rihanna so the singer could choose some for her upcoming eighth album, _Anti_, which suggests that RiRi’s long-awaited collection is far from the near-finished state many expected. “The other night she came over and listened to half of 25 songs I played her because she’s still looking for songs for her new album,” said Sia, who co-wrote Rihanna’s 2012 hit “Diamonds.” “She was there to listen to songs and see if there was anything that she was into. It was a business meeting for sure. She took four \[songs\] but I don’t know if they’ll end up \[on the album\].” As speculation surrounding _Anti_ [continues to mount](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/14/everything-we-know-rihanna-anti) — it was already at a fever-pitch when Rihanna [teamed with Paul McCartney and Kanye West](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/25/rihanna-kanye-west-paul-mccartney) for “FourFiveSeconds” back in January — the singer has dished out red herring after red herring when it comes to the record’s release. Rihanna followed “FourFiveSeconds” with “Bitch Better Have My Money” and “American Oxygen” in the spring, [shared _Anti_’s artwork](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6721869/rihanna-album-r8-anti-title-artwork-roy-nachum) in October, and launched a [new website](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/23/rihanna-antidiary-website) late last month that many thought (incorrectly) would include the album. Even Adele [wants this sucker to drop](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/24/adele-rihanna-album). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/14/sia-rihanna-new-album-anti) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/"},"headline":"Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says","datePublished":"2015-12-14T18:28:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:21:24.215Z","description":"Rihanna's eighth album, 'Anti,' may take some time for a reveal","url":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/","keywords":["Music","Rihanna","Sia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358609555e9509b5/6988753c524fc0e518df5ea2/rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt358609555e9509b5/6988753c524fc0e518df5ea2/rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rihanna at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2015.","caption":"Rihanna at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2015.","creditText":"Steve Granitz—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/","name":"Rihanna Is Still Looking for Songs for New Album, Sia Says"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Jim Parsons Manages To Annoy The Crap Out Of Rihanna","description":"On the 'Tonight Show' Monday, actor Jim Parsons revealed he's gotten really, really good at annoying his 'Home' co-star Rihanna.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lZjUJAgB/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-17T07:29:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lZjUJAgB.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/","duration":"PT1M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4148073/sia-rihanna-new-album/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```