Madonna announces Confessions II, her first album in seven years

Madonna will release Confessions II on July 3 through Warner Records, ending a seven-year gap since Madame X and marking her fifteenth studio album. The project reunites her with Stuart Price, the producer who helped shape Confessions on a Dance Floor, and frames the new record as a direct return to the club language that powered one of her defining reinventions.

That 2005 album arrived in November, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Its lead single, Hung Up, became Madonna’s 11th UK No. 1 single, a chart run that helped turn disco references into mainstream pop again. Confessions II lands 21 years later, with the original record still standing as the benchmark for what a Madonna dance album can do when it balances velocity with control.

Warner Records announced the album with a visual teaser and cover art photographed by Rafael Pavarotti, with creative direction by IB Kamara. Madonna has also framed the release as both a return to Warner Records and a return to the dance floor, after years of signaling that she wanted to revisit the Confessions era without simply repeating it.

The rollout has already pushed beyond the album announcement. Madonna made a surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella weekend 2 set in April, where she performed Vogue, Like a Prayer and an unreleased duet. Early reporting on the track list points to guest appearances from Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Martin Garrix and Stromae, signals that the record is trying to bridge Madonna’s own legacy with younger pop and electronic currents.

The live and visual promotion continues around release. A Tribeca Festival presentation is set to premiere a 10-minute cinematic piece built around the first six tracks of Confessions II, while a Los Angeles pop-up tied to the album is scheduled for July 3 through July 5. Taken together, the rollout suggests a record that starts in the ecstatic, floor-focused mode that made Confessions on a Dance Floor so durable, then moves toward deeper personal revelations before it ends.