Ariana Grande Announces New Album ‘Petal’ and Sets July Release Date

Home Music News Apr 28, 2026 8:12am PT Ariana Grande Announces New Album ‘Petal’ and Sets July Release Date By Jem Aswad Plus Icon Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music jemaswad Latest BMG and Concord to Merge, Creating the World’s Fourth Major Music Company 2 hours ago Nedra Talley Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80 2 days ago iHeartRadio and SiriusXM in Early Merger Talks, With Irving Azoff and Apollo Advising 4 days ago See All Ariana Grande has announced the title and release date of her eighth studio album, “Petal,” executive produced and co-written by Grande and Ilya, out July 31st via 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 name is Ilya Salmanzadeh) is a Swedish-Persian producer who worked extensively with hitmaker Max Martin, co-produced and co-wrote much of Grande’s 2024 album “Eternal Sunshine” and has clocked hits with Taylor Swift and Sam Smith, among many others. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-variety-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories 'Verity' Trailer: Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson Play Seductive Mind Games in Colleen Hoover Thriller Tribeny Rai’s ‘Shape of Momo’ Wins Grand Jury Prize at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles The album has been long expected, as Grande has been teasing it with photos of herself in the studio and announced a summer tour launching in June. Popular on Variety if ( !window.pmc.harmony?.isEventAdScheduledTime() ) { pmcCnx.cmd.push(function() { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 2, } } }, playerId: 'fdaee7b3-292f-4a85-89bb-29a56b567de3', playlistId: '073c6e70-0010-4b87-92d0-d891f87f5cd8', }).render("connatix_contextual_player_div"); }); } else { // This should only be get called when page cache is not cleared and it's event time. window.pmc.harmony?.switchToHarmonyPlayer(); } The announcement comes on the heels of her three years of work around the film “Wicked” and its sequel, as well as “Eternal Sunshine” and its 2025 deluxe edition. While the tour was pegged to “Eternal Sunshine” when it was announced last year, it seems likely the new album will be a highlight of it. Grande said that the tour could be her last “for a long time.” “The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up,” Grande said in an interview last year 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!’” View this post on Instagram Read More About: Ariana Grande Jump to Comments More from Variety Bruno Mars’ ‘The Romantic’ Becomes His First to Debut at No. 1 on Albums Chart Bruno Mars Makes a Leisure Suit of a Record With ‘The Romantic,’ Doubling Down on Silk Sonic’s Hermetically Sealed ’70s Revivalism: Album Review blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'nativecontent', 'gpt-ap-native-bottom-uid3' )…

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