The Queen of Pop is inviting us back to the dance floor.
Seven years after the release of her 14th studio album, the Billboard 200 No. 1 Madame X, Madonna is finally dropping her highly anticipated 15th record, Confessions II. After teasing the album and sharing that she is working with her old collaborator Stuart Price, the pop megastar officially announced the new album on April 15.
Confessions II is a sequel to Madonna’s 2005 Billboard 200 No. 1 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. On top of being her first work in more than half a decade, the new record is also the singer’s first album since her return to Warner Records. The major label announced in September that Madonna would be coming back to where it all began after nearly two decades away. Warner Records became Madonna’s first label after she signed there in 1982. She remained with the label for the first 25 years of her career, during which she released 11 albums, including the original Confessions.
In a now-deleted Instagram post from September, the pop star celebrated her return to Warner Records and teased the new album, writing, “Almost 2 decades later — And it feels like home with Warner Records! Back to music, Back to the Dance Floor, Back to where it all began! COADF – Pt. 2 2026.”
“COADF – Pt. 2” is now officially on the horizon. On April 17, Madonna made a surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella weekend 2 headlining set to perform “Vogue,” “Like a Prayer” and an unreleased duet with the “Espresso” singer. Following the surprise performance, Madonna released the first song from Confessions II at midnight on April 18.
From the release date to the first taste of music, see everything we know about Confessions II so far below.
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The Release Date
Confessions II will come out on July 3 via Warner Records.
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The Album Cover
Madonna shared the official album cover to her Instagram on April 18. The artwork features a photo of the star sat atop of a speaker, donning a sheer purple veil over her face and body, purple thigh-high stockings over black fishnet tights and a lace dress. Her name and the album cover are overlaid on either side of her body.
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It’s a Sequel
Confessions II is a sequel to Madonna’s 2005 Billboard 200 No. 1 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. The original album featured the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Hung Up,” which samples ABBA’s 1979 single “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight).”
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The Lead Producer
Madonna enlisted her Confessions on a Dance Floor collaborator Stuart Price to produce Confessions II. The singer first shared their reunion with a video post to Instagram in December 2024. In the clip, Madonna and Price are seen together in the studio and in the caption, Madonna wrote that the two were working on new music that she was excited to share with her fans.
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The First Song
After debuting the track on iHeartRadio’s Pride station the day prior, Madonna released the first taste of Confessions II, a song called “I Feel So Free,” on April 18. The release of the track followed Madonna’s surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella weekend 2 headlining set. The more than five-minute-long song is a pulsating dance track reminiscent of the sound of the first Confessions album.
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It’s a Dance Album
Although Madonna is one to do the unexpected, by virtue of Confessions II being the follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, it naturally had to be a dance album. In a press statement about the new album, Madonna shared her and Price’s “manifesto” when creating the work.
“We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect—with your wounds, with your fragility,” the Queen of Pop writes.
She continues: “To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people. Sound, light, and vibration Reshape our perceptions Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
Further cementing Confessions II as a dance album, in the lyrics to “I Feel So Free,” Madonna invites listeners to “Come on, meet me on the dance floor.”
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It May Have a Sabrina Carpenter Collab
When Madonna joined Sabrina Carpenter on stage at Coachella, the two pop stars performed two of Madonna’s biggest hits, Billboard Hot 100 chart toppers “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer,” and a new song that no one has heard before. Madonna and Carpenter sang a snippet of an unreleased track that many are speculating to be from Confessions II.
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