After weeks of teasing, Grande announced the follow-up to her 2024 LP Eternal Sunshine
Ariana Grande has announced her eighth studio album, Petal, which will arrive July 31.
Grande executive produced and co-wrote the album with Ilya, the Swedish writer/producer who has been a frequent collaborator since 2018’s Sweetener.
In a statement, Grande described the album as “something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging,” without disclosing further details. The track list and first single also remain a mystery.
After downplaying the prospect of a new album in recent interviews, Grande began posting hints to the contrary in March, like a flower emoji in her Instagram bio. The new album follows 2024’s Eternal Sunshine, which included the chart-topping singles “Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).”
The release of Petal will fall the middle of Grande’s Eternal Sunshine Tour, which opens June 6 in Oakland and wraps Sept. 1 at London’s O2 Arena. The trek marks her first outing since the 2019 Sweetener World Tour.
While the announcement of Petal shows that Grande hasn’t fully turned her focus away from music, she has spent the past few years primarily focused on acting. Her most notable triumph was her her role as Glinda in Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and Wicked: For Good, which earned her multiple award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. The two films have grossed more than $1.2 billion combined. She also filmed the comedy Focker-In-Law, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, due in November, and is set to make her West End debut in 2027 in a revival of Sunday in the Park with George with Jonathan Bailey.
