Next stop, HADES.
Melanie Martinez returns with her fourth studio album, HADES, the songwriter and alternative pop artist’s social commentary on today’s upside-down world.
Arriving in full today, March 27, the collection spans 18 tracks and houses lead track “POSSESSION,” her first release in three years, and followup “Disney Princess.”
“I started this album thinking I was writing a futuristic dystopia,” she explains in a statement from Warner Music, her label home, “but I realized I was just documenting the world we’re already living in. HADES is a cracked mirror. Beneath the rage, it’s a refusal to go numb – a call to feel, to see clearly, and to ask if we can still create something beautiful from the chaos we’ve been given.”
HADES is the New York-born, Latin-American artist’s first new music since 2023’s Portals, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, her third consecutive top 10 appearance on the chart. Portals went all the way to No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Chart.
Martinez entered our lives back in 2012 as a contestant on season 3 of The Voice. Although she didn’t collect top prize, she won the long game. In her career to-date, she’s accumulated 30 billion-plus career streams, upwards of 5.5 billion official YouTube views and more than 62 million followers across platforms.
Her debut album from 2015, Cry Baby, peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the perfume of the same name, which was self-released the following year and was a sell-out. Later, she partnered with Flower Shop Perfume on a perfume line, the first of which arrived in 2023 — with similar success to its predecessor. The collection has since expanded to include candles, body sprays, and perfume pendants.
Martinez has presented the new album to fans at sold-out listening parties in London, Amsterdam and Toronto. HADES will get another push with a small run of special performances, kicking off tonight at New York’s United Palace, then visiting Mexico City, and Los Angeles, where on April 8 she’s locked-in for an exclusive spot at the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theater. There, she’ll give an in-depth exploration of her creative process, and perform a mini set for 200 guests.
Stream HADES below.
