Rihanna has confirmed six of the tracks from her forthcoming fifth studio album, 'Loud'.

The R&B singer introduced five songs herself at a playback event in Central London last night (October 5). The tracks are to include the record's lead single 'Only Girl (In The World)'.

She also confirmed that the album's second single will be 'What's My Name', and hinted that a "badass" track called 'S&M' is also set to be a single.

Rihanna then played the songs 'Cheers', dedicated to "all the semi-alcoholics around the world", and 'California King Bed', a song about "falling in love" and "feeling so close to someone but so far away".

Following the playback, the bajan songstress held a brief Q&A session, where she further confirmed that a collaboration with Nicki Minaj called, 'Raining Men', would also appear on the record.

She described the album as "expressive", "attention-grabbing" and "filled with lots of different sounds", before adding, "You just have to play it really loud."

'Loud' is set to be released in the UK on November 15.