Apparently she missed rehearsals on Monday.

How do you drop two songs out of nowhere and miss your biggest oppurtunity to promote them in your biggest market?

The truth is that there is a lot of speculation and rumours and no official infos from Rih or the Brits. We're all just creating theories and speculating when, in truth, we probably don't even know half of it or if she really was slated to perform there in the first place. And I agree with istan: I doubt there will be an official announcement because she was never announced, we just really assumed she would be.

But it's 99.9% sure she was supposed to perform, we couldn't have more receipts lol. I'm not gonna post all of them again but it was pretty clear / obvious. Anyway, it's useless to debate about this again since she won't show up.

Btw Kanye will debut a new song, if anyone's interested.

Exactly. Also the fact that she didn't rehearse makes it more obvious to me the whole thing was a lie, Rihanna rehearsed weeks in advance for the Superbowl event and Grammys. She would have rehearsed for the Brits ahead of time not the day before like (The Sun) claimed. Instead she was busy shooting the video for HOME.

& Although her birthday party on Fri night was a surprise come Sunday she wouldn't have went to the club for another bday celebration. Nor would she have been chilling in LA celebrating Sonita b-day yesterday.

Rih can be messy and has a history of doing things last minute but she is NOT that messy. Rehearsals would've at least started out in LA and a final run through the day before/ day of in the UK.

Well Rihanna's band went to NY for rehearsals while Rihanna was there last week. And her vocal coach, drummer were clearly there for the Brits and for Rihanna, and there's receipt she hired drums for the Brits, butttt
Plus Rihanna's backup singers said a few days ago that they were gonna stay in London till Thursday, and yesterday that left London sooo...

Yupppp
And no

I dont understand how the sing is gaining in some countries, yet falling in othersq

I really don't like her releasing songs out of nowhere. Everything about this era is non-evenTy

I heard a lot of Grammy performances were removed from vevo....

So we can remember to forget

I hope we are mentally prepared for the album first week sales

200+ is ok for me.

I agree.
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I don't even want to think about album sales right now.

Imagine her doing 150k they'd END us

The random releases isn't the problem...the problem is that she's staying completely mum about everything even after she releases the lead. Like bitch say somthing! Give us some info...what is the album gonna sound like? What's the inspiratoin? When can we expect it? Give us the cover or something to speculate about. This is getting annoying and she's only killing the momentum of the era...

I don't know why people keep ignoring these facts. There was more than enough reason to believe she'd be there.