Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2025

Long earlier 2025 adjacent kicked off, galore artists were already starting to tease fans, hinting oregon downright saying they should expect caller euphony successful the upcoming year.

Take The Weeknd, for example. The creator calved Abel Tesfaye began teasing his fans connected Jan. 7, 2024, via societal media. In an Instagram carousel, helium shared the covers for After Hours and Dawn FM, followed by a achromatic quadrate with a elephantine achromatic question people successful the halfway and a tiny parental advisory sticker successful the bottommost left. His caption? A azygous “3.” He yet revealed the title of the last medium of his trilogy — Hurry Up Tomorrow — successful September, and the time earlier Thanksgiving, shared its merchandise date. But connected Jan. 13, the instrumentalist announced that owed to the deadly Los Angeles country wildfires, helium was canceling his Jan. 25 Rose Bowl concert, and besides delaying his medium retired of respect and interest for those successful the impacted areas.

Then determination was Lady Gaga. Mother Monster amazed the Little Monsters with a simple message astatine the extremity of the Gaga Chromatica Ball concert film, confirming that her seventh medium is so successful the works: “LG7 GAGA RETURNS.” But the tease, which debuted connected the HBO Max movie successful precocious May, did not connection immoderate hints arsenic to erstwhile the highly anticipated merchandise would arrive. It wasn’t until her September Vogue screen communicative that Gaga revealed LG7 would arrive sometime successful February 2025. Mayhem would yet driblet connected March 7.

And of course, things don’t ever spell arsenic planned. Joe Jonas announced successful July 2024 that his caller solo album, Music for People Who Believe successful Love, would get Oct. 18, past shared successful a September X post that the acceptable “is gonna travel retired aboriginal now” due to the fact that helium wanted to adhd immoderate “final touches.” (It arrived May 23.)

August began to gaffe away, but suddenly, Taylor Swift teased that caller euphony whitethorn beryllium coming, lone to corroborate the quality and stock details soon aft connected fellow Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast connected Aug. 13.

With astonishment medium news, moving merchandise dates and the sheer fig of medium announcements, it tin beryllium hard to enactment connected apical of erstwhile caller euphony by favourite artists is arriving. To assistance marque definite fans don’t miss retired connected large arrivals, Billboard‘s calendar of 2025 caller medium releases — which volition see the astir notable releases from artists crossed genres, spanning hip-hop, K-pop, Latin, rock, pop, state and much — volition beryllium updated regularly arsenic caller euphony is announced.

The calendar is organized chronologically by period and week, and includes a conception for albums that artists person announced, but person not fixed an nonstop merchandise date.

Keep checking backmost for the latest 2025 medium merchandise dates!