Madonna Rejoins Warner Records for 2026 Dance Album

Madonna will return to Warner Records and to the dancefloor with a new album slated for 2026, the pop star and the label announced, marking a formal reunion nearly two decades after she left the company that launched her career. The project is being billed as a follow-up to her 2005 dance record Confessions on a Dance Floor and will be her first studio album since 2019's Madame X.

Madonna said in a statement that Warner Records "has been a real partner" since the start of her career and that she is "happy to be reunited" and "look forward to the future, making music, doing the unexpected while perhaps provoking a few needed conversations." Warner Records cochairmen Tom Corson and Aaron BaySchuck called the signing "a historic, full circle moment," saying Madonna has defined the sound of global pop and reshaped culture with her vision and fearlessness.

The album will reunite Madonna with DJ and producer Stuart Price, who helmed much of Confessions on a Dance Floor. Madonna has publicly signaled that she and Price were back in the studio late in 2024, and she has teased new music to fans in social media posts. Reports differ on whether the new record has a formal title; some...