Upcoming Album Release Calendar
All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Release dates are subject to change, and often do.
| 15 May 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| All-American Rejects | Sandbox | |
| Drake | Iceman | |
| Dua Saleh | Of Earth & Wires | |
| Kevin Morby | Little Wide Open | |
| Maisie Peters | Florescence | |
| Maluma | Loco x Volver | |
| Rostam | American Stories | |
| Spencer Krug | Same Fangs | |
| The Field | Now You Exist | |
| 22 May 2026 | ||
| Alela Diane | Who's Keeping Time? | |
| Bleachers | everyone for ten minutes | |
| Ed O'Brien | Blue Morpho | |
| Future Islands | From A Hole In The Floor To A Fountain Of Youth | |
| Thomas Dollbaum | Birds Of Paradise | |
| Visible Cloaks | Paradessence | |
| 29 May 2026 | ||
| Aespa | LEMONADE | |
| All Them Witches | House Of Mirrors | |
| Boards of Canada | Inferno | |
| David Torn | now i imagine a place not the same | |
| Dogstar | All In Now | |
| Doublespeak | Doublespeak | [Erasure's Vince Clarke, Blancmange's Neil Arthur & Benge] |
| Guided by Voices | Crawlspace Of The Pantheon | |
| Iceage | For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter | |
| Káryyn | Physics Universal Love Language (PULL) | |
| Kurt Vile | Philadelphia’s been good to me | |
| Paul McCartney | The Boys Of Dungeon Lane | |
| Shinedown | Ei8ht | |
| Turnover | Down On Earth | |
| Violet Grohl | Be Sweet To Me | |
| 5 June 2026 | ||
| Bedouine | Neon Summer Skin | |
| Converge | Hum Of Hurt | |
| Death Cab for Cutie | I Built You A Tower | |
| Deer Tick | Coin-O-Matic | |
| Fink | The City Is Coming To Erase It All | |
| Jared Mattson & Ruban Nielson | FEAR | |
| Lee | Spatial, No Problem. | [Final album from Perry] |
| Lizzo | Bitch | |
| Modest Mouse | An Eraser And A Maze | |
| Niall Horan | Dinner Party | |
| Of Montreal | aethermead | |
| Poppy Ackroyd | Liminal | |
| Roger Sanchez | Spectrum | |
| Rosa Walton | Tell Me It’s A Dream | [Debut solo LP of Let's Eat Grandma singer] |
| Vince Staples | Cry Baby | |
| Widowspeak | Roses | |
| 12 June 2026 | ||
| Bebe Rexha | Dirty Blonde | |
| BIG|BRAVE | in grief or in hope | |
| Fruit Bats | The Landfill | |
| Horse Lords | Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! | |
| Jessie Reyez | A Little Vengeance | |
| Kelsey Lu | So Help Me God | |
| Olivia Rodrigo | You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love | |
| Shabason & Krgovich | Four Days In June | |
| Sublime | Until The Sun Explodes | |
| The Bobby Lees | New Self | |
| 19 June 2026 | ||
| Graham Coxon | Castle Park | [Previously unreleased LP] |
| Life | ABSTRACT/NATURAL | |
| Pond | Terrestrials | |
| Tucker Zimmerman | Dream Me A Dream | [Final album] |
| 26 June 2026 | ||
| Beth Orton | The Ground Above | |
| Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come | |
| JJerome87 | The Canyon | [Debut LP from alt-j frontman Joe Newman] |
| M. Geddes Gengras | Guest List | |
| Melanie Radford | For The Sake Of Stillness | [Debut solo LP from Built to Spill's bassist] |
| Muse | The WOW! Signal | |
| Temples | BLISS | |
| The Pretty Reckless | Dear God | |
| The Strokes | Reality Awaits | |
| 3 July 2026 | ||
| Madonna | Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II | |
| 10 July 2026 | ||
| Allison Russell | In The Hour Of Chaos | |
| Finn Wolfhard | Fire from the Hip | |
| Kelela | New Avatar | |
| Parts & Labor | Set Of All Sets | |
| Suki Waterhouse | Loveland | |
| The Rolling Stones | Foreign Tongues | |
| The Temper Trap | Sungazer | |
| The Xcerts | i think i want to go home now | |
| 17 July 2026 | ||
| The Menzingers | Everything I Ever Saw | |
| Tricky | Different When It's Silent | |
| Yard Act | You’re Gonna Need A Little Music | |
| 24 July 2026 | ||
| FLO | Therapy At The Club | |
| Tyla | A*POP | |
| 31 July 2026 | ||
| Ariana Grande | petal | |
| 7 August 2026 | ||
| Citizen | Halcyon Blues | |
| The Anchoress | As We Once Were | |
| 14 August 2026 | ||
| Jungle | Sunshine | |
| 21 August 2026 | ||
| Antony Szmierek | Decoding Birdsong | |
| Lambchop | Punching The Clown | |
| 4 September 2026 | ||
| Natalie Imbruglia | Algorithm | |
| Personal Trainer | Human Assholes | |
| 6 November 2026 | ||
| La Roux | Old Flames | |
Anticipated Future Releases
These albums do not yet have a firm release date, but are in various stages of development. If an artist appears multiple times, that means multiple albums by that artist are forthcoming.
| Alabama Shakes | [Title TBA] | 2026 |
| Alexisonfire | [Title TBA] | TBA |
| Azealia Banks | Fantasea II: The Second Wave | TBA |
| Blondie | [Title TBA] | 2026 |
| Brian Wilson | Cows in the Pasture | TBA |
| Busta Rhymes | Vengeance | 2026 |
| DJ Khaled | Aalam Of God | TBA |
| Everlast | [Title TBA] | 2026 |
| Grimes | BOOK 1 | TBA |
| GZA | Dark Matter | TBA |
| Hayden Pedigo | [Title TBA] | TBA |
| Janet Jackson | Black Diamond | TBA |
| KMD | Crack In Time | TBA |
| Lana Del Rey | Stove | 2026 |
| Lizzo | Love In Real Life | TBA |
| Maxwell | blacksummers’NIGHT | TBA |
| Michael Stipe | [Title TBA] | 2026 |
| Mike Will Made It | Michael | TBA |
| Nicki Minaj | Pink Friday 3 | TBA |
| Peter Gabriel | o/i | Dec 2026 |
| Rihanna | R9 | TBA |
| Skepta | Fork and Knife | TBA |
| Sky Ferreira | Masochism | TBA |
| The Distillers | [Title TBA] | TBA |
| Travis Barker | [Title TBA] | TBA |
| U2 | [Title TBA] | TBA |
| William Shatner | [Title TBA] | 2026 |
| Zack de la Rocha | [Title TBA] | TBA |
Essential Links
May 2026 Releases
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Week of May 3, 2026