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The upcoming seventh studio album by the Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, is scheduled for release in 2013 by Def Jam recordings, although no release date has been set, and the album still remains untitled.

Background
Following the release of Rihanna's previous studio album, Talk That Talk, which was commercially successful spawning five singles, one of which being We Found Love which topped tweenty-five charts worldwide. Four months after the release of Talk That Talk the singer revealed that she had began working on the the follow up album. In a interview in March 2012, Rihanna said “I started working on the new sound, but I haven’t really started recording yet." Later, she said that she officially started working on her seventh album.

Recording
On June 20, 2012 Rihanna began recording her seventh studio album in London working with Nicky Romero and Burns. In which Rihanna and Burns booked three days in a studio whilst Rihanna was in London performing at the Hackney weekend. It was also confirmed that Rihanna worked with Eric Bellinger, Sean Garrett and Swedish House Mafia for her seventh album. On July 6, 2012 Def Jam executive No I.D. revealed that he had begun working with Rihanna on the album saying “I’m going in next week for about a week”. On July 10, 2012 British singer and producer Labrinth revealed to Capital FM that he had been working with Rihanna on the album saying "I'm supposed to be working with her soon hopefully so I've spoke to her managers, I think she's currently working on some stuff so everybody's in there at the moment and she's working in certain studios so it seems like it's very exciting. She's not in my studio [yet] but hopefully I'll have some hot ones on her album." On July 17, 2012 it was reported that Rihanna would be working with R&B singer Ne-yo and N dubz member fazer. In a interview with Capital FM Ne-Yo spoke on working with Rihanna on the album saying "I just recently went in to do some stuff for Rihanna, you know. She’s the hardest working woman in showbiz right now. She’s in the process of putting together a new album as we speak, I got in with Stargate and David Guetta and a few other people for that project.

On July 13, 2012 Sean Garrett confirmed that he had been in the studio with French DJ David Guetta working on Rihanna's album saying "I was in the studio with David doing some stuff for Rihanna recently. He finds inspiration in the things I don't like, and I get excited by the things he doesn't like. He wants to be more urban and I want to be more international, so we push each other, I try to help Rihanna. She works hard and it's cool to write for someone who is so open-minded." On August 21st, American songwriter Claude Kelly revealed that he had been writing songs for Rihanna whilst she was performing in London. Kelly spoke on the songs that he had wrote for Rihanna saying; "Rihanna's a worldwide superstar at this point and she's performing in stadiums and arenas now, so I wanted songs that reflected her audience, when I was in London she was performing at a festival in front of like 30,000 to 40,000 people. So I didn't want small songs that only worked on radio, so I tried to do anthemic big stadium-themed songs." On August 16, 2012, British singer Angel revealed that he had been writing for Rihanna's album saying "I love writing songs and it's good to pitch tracks to other artists. A couple of weeks ago I was doing some writing for Rihanna". In September 2012 Ne-Yo confirmed his involvement the album saying “I did go in the studio with her, I know I got one or two on the album that she’s definitely keeping.”

Title
It was reported in October that the album would be entitled "Seven".

Sound and influence
Rihanna spoke on the album’s sound saying she loves working with different sounds and putting them together. Rihanna also added "Right now we're working on collecting and creating the sound first before we even start working on the lyrical direction or melodies. I kind of have an idea though, and it's very rough right now. So I'm very eager to start that." Sean Garrett spoke on the albums sound saying it was "A great mish-mash of genres"

Singles
In August, 2012 The French part of Rihanna's label Def Jam, reveled via the social networking site Twitter that the lead single from the album would be premiered on August 17, 2012 at 3pm.

Release and promotion
In August, 2012 it was revealed that the album would be released in late November, 2012. It was reported that the album would be released on November 19, 2012.

The Diamonds World Tour
In March 2012 Rihanna confirmed plans to launch a new world tour in 2013 and has vowed to make it bigger and “more impactful” than anything she has done before. On Friday 7, September, it was announced that the North American leg will begin in March 2013.