Miguel Announces CAOS Album for Oct 23, 40th Birthday

Miguel announced on Tuesday that his long-awaited fifth full-length album, CAOS, will be released Oct. 23 via ByStorm Entertainment and RCA Records, a date that the singer said will coincide with his 40th birthday. The Grammy Award winning R&B artist also shared two new songs from the project, making the title track available exclusively on his S1C.LA platform and issuing the single New Martyrs Ride 4 U through his label this week.

CAOS is Miguel's first full studio album since 2017's War & Leisure and follows two intervening EPs, 2019's Te Lo Dije and 2021's Art Dealer Chic 4. The album, described in a press statement as eight years in the making, will reportedly run 12 songs and is expected to include the previously released single Always Time, along with the title track and New Martyrs Ride 4 U. It is not yet clear whether other standalone songs Miguel released in recent years, including collaborations such as Number 9 with Lil Yachty or Give It to Me, will appear on the record.

"To rebuild, I had to destroy myself. That is the core confrontation of CAOS," Miguel said in a statement announcing the album. "Through my personal evolution, I learned that transformation is...