TIWYCF is not and has nothing to do with ANTi. Rihanna is more than album to have a solo single and a feature doing well on pop radio at one time. No matter what the case may be TIWYCF is Calvin Harris track for a Calvin Harris album.
Or bc they had TIWYCF and it would overshadow any other single just like it did with KIB? And Needed Me was already gaining traction on pop. I doubt they'll promote this. (Towards the Sun, anyone?)
'Needed Me' isn't doing well enough on pop just for them to flat out not release a song to pop from ANTi. Because if it was they would've released it to pop radio by now. In which they haven't because this is coming.
A new single by Westbury Road/Roc Nation’s Rihanna, “Sledgehammer,” from the forthcoming blockbuster Star Trek Beyond, is due to drop imminently. Def Jam will reportedly be working the Sia-penned track at Pop and Adult radio formats. Paramount will have the soundtrack album for the flick, which opens on 7/22. RiRi’s Anti World Tour hits London’s Wembley Stadium tonight, bringing some much-needed cheer to the British Isles.