R&B superstar Mary J. Blige is planning to retire from music in “five or six years”.

The superstar revealed plans to exit the music industry in the next few years after a chart-topping career that delivered 14 studio albums across more than three decades.

“Right now, I’m definitely gonna do some more acting and I’m definitely gonna retire in, like, five or six years,” she told Extra. “Right now, I’m still doing what I’m doing but not as often as I was doing it because I don’t have to now.”

The hitmaker – who released her most-recent LP, ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’, in 2022, added her current music is “about life… love… being stable and understanding you can have things like love. You can have a good life.

“Mostly the love I have for myself,” she continued “My real love is me and I found it.”

It comes ahead of her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year as part of the Class of 2024, which includes Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Dionne Warwick and more.

In a post on Instagram following the announcement on ‘American Idol’, she penned: “Beyond Grateful!!!!!! This is incredible!!! God always has the final say!!!! Thank you to my fans all over the world!!!! Tears of Joy!!!!”

The 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction will be live on Saturday, October 19at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2024 ceremony will once again stream live on Disney+ with a special airing on ABC at a later date and available on Hulu the next day.