Melanie Martinez Drops Fourth Album ‘HADES’: Stream It Now
Next cease, HADES.
Melanie Martinez returns along with her fourth studio album, HADESthe songwriter and different pop artist’s social commentary on right this moment’s upside-down world.
Arriving in full right this moment, March 27, the gathering spans 18 tracks and homes lead track “POSSESSION,” her first launch in three years, and followup “Disney Princess.”
“I started this album thinking I was writing a futuristic dystopia,” she explains in a press release from Warner Music, her label dwelling, “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 Portalswhich peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, her third consecutive prime 10 look on the chart. Portals went all the way in which to No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Chart.
Martinez entered our lives again in 2012 as a contestant on season 3 of The Voice. Although she did not accumulate prime prize, she received the lengthy sport. In her profession to-date, she’s gathered 30 billion-plus profession streams, upwards of 5.5 billion official YouTube views and greater than 62 million followers throughout platforms.
Her debut album from 2015, Cry Babypeaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the fragrance of the identical identify, which was self-released the next yr and was a sell-out. Later, she partnered with Flower Shop Perfume on a fragrance line, the primary of which arrived in 2023 — with related success to its predecessor. The assortment has since expanded to incorporate candles, physique sprays, and fragrance pendants.
Martinez has offered the brand new album to followers at sold-out listening events in London, Amsterdam and Toronto. HADES will get one other push with a small run of particular performances, kicking off tonight at New York’s United Palace, then visiting Mexico City, and Los Angeles, the place on April 8 she’s locked-in for an unique spot on the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theater. There, she’ll give an in-depth exploration of her artistic course of, and carry out a mini set for 200 friends.
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