“To rave is an art”: Madonna announces new album ‘Confessions II’
Madonna has announced a return to the dancefloor with her eagerly anticipated new album, Confessions II, which is set for release on July 3rd, 2026.
The pop icon is following up her Grammy-winning 2005 studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, her 10th album, which saw her triumphantly experimenting with 1970s disco and 1980s electropop.
She has been teasing the new album since 2024, and now, the time has finally arrived. Sure enough, Madonna has wiped her Instagram page and changed the bio to include the iconic lyric, “Time goes by so slowly”, from the chart-topping hit ‘Hung Up’.
The 67-year-old is subsequently throwing herself back into the world of dance. On a statement accompanying the album announcement, the ‘Material Girl’ singer revealed, “When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies.”
She added, “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.”
Madonna added that, to her, raving is “about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people.”
This will mark the star’s first album since 2019’s Madame X. Since then, she has released two remix compilations, Finally Enough Love and Veronica Electronica, as well as collaborations with the likes of Sam Smith, Fireboy DML, and Beyoncé.
Last year, she confirmed the move back to Warner Records, through which she had released all projects from her self-titled debut up to the 2008 album Hard Candy.
“We are honoured to welcome Madonna back home to Warner Records. Madonna isn’t just an artist — she’s the blueprint, the rule-breaker, the ultimate cultural juggernaut,” Tom Corson and Aaron Bay-Schuck, co-chairmen of Warner Records, said in the statement upon announcement of her return.
More recently, after a failed start to a movie biopic of her experience in the industry, it was announced last year that she is working with director Shawn Levy to create a Netflix series about her rise to fame.
See the announcement post shared with her 20.3 million followers on Instagram below.
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