Forgive me, father, for I have danced. Madonna’s self-directed biopic may still be stalled, but that doesn’t mean she’s not still working. The forever Queen of Pop is dropping a new album next year, which she is calling Confessions on a Dancefloor — Part 2. And she’s returning to old stomping grounds, Warner Records, to release it. “Back to music, Back to the Dance Floor, Back to where it all began!” Madonna wrote in an Instagram post on September 18. Below, find everything we know about how Madonna is still hung up.
She’s got more Confessions
The yet-untitled album is a sequel to her 2005 record, Confessions on a Dancefloor. Her previous record, American Life, was a folktronica treatise on the state of America post-9/11 that was, at the time, her worst-selling album, so the dance music of Confessions was already a return to form. She wrote the album with Stuart Price, and it was a massive success, with hits including “Hung Up” and “Sorry.” “Madge has reclaimed her place in the pop firmament with unrivaled ferocity,” The Age wrote at the time. “She is exactly where she should be, and so is everyone else — which is on their knees giving thanks not only that Madonna has still got it, but, well, that she has so much of it.” Now, she’s attempting to recapture that glory.
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She’s back with Warner and Stuart Price
The team behind Confessions, essentially. Her co-writer on all those tracks, Stuart Price, is back on this record, per Billboard. She’s also returning to Warner, the record label that released Confessions and all her other biggest hits for the first 25 years of her career, including Like a Prayer, True Blue, and Like a Virgin. “From being a struggling artist in New York City to signing a record deal to release just three singles it seemed at the time my world would never be the same again and in fact that couldn’t have been truer,” Madonna said in a statement, per Billboard. “Since the beginning Warner Records has been a real partner with me. I am happy to be reunited and look forward to the future, making music, doing the unexpected while perhaps provoking a few needed conversations.”
Confessions 2 is coming out next year
While we don’t yet have an official release date for the album, Madonna did write in her Instagram post that the album will be out in 2026. Hail Madonna, full of grace, the dance pop is with thee.
