Ariana Grande Announces New Album, Petal,’ Coming in July

Ariana Grande has introduced the title and launch date of her eighth studio album, “Petal,” govt produced and co-written by Grande and Ilya, out July thirty first by way of Republic Records.

In the announcement, Grande describes the album as, “Something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging.”

Ilya (whose full identify is Ilya Salmanzadeh) is a Swedish-Persian producer who labored extensively with hitmaker Max Martin, co-produced and co-wrote a lot of Grande’s 2024 album “Eternal Sunshine” and has clocked hits with Taylor Swift and Sam Smith, amongst many others.

The album has been lengthy anticipated, as Grande has been teasing it with images of herself in the studio and announced a summer tour launching in June.

The announcement comes on the heels of her three years of labor across the movie “Wicked” and its sequel, in addition to “Eternal Sunshine” and its 2025 deluxe version.

While the tour was connected to “Eternal Sunshine” when it was introduced final 12 months, it appears doubtless the brand new album can be a spotlight of it. Grande stated that the tour may very well be her final “for a long time.”

“The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up,” Grande stated in an interview final 12 months on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast. “I don’t want to say anything definitive. I do know that I’m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long, long time. I’m going to give it my all and it’s going to be beautiful. I think that’s why I’m doing it because I’m like, ‘One last hurrah!'”