Madonna Announces Return to Warner Records, Teases 2026 Dance Album: ‘Back to Where It All Began’

Madonna is going backmost to the start. Warner Records announced connected Thursday (Sept. 18) that the popular icon is returning to her archetypal statement location aft astir 2 decades away. The best-selling pistillate creator of each clip has signed with Warner for what the statement called her “highly anticipated, upcoming caller dance album.”

Madonna celebrated the instrumentality successful an Instagram post successful which she wrote, “Almost 2 decades aboriginal — And it feels similar location with Warner Records! Back to music, Back to the Dance Floor, Back to wherever it each began! COADF – Pt. 2 2026.” The station included a bid of pictures of the 67-year-old superstar seated connected mattress connected the level successful a gauzy airy pinkish nightgown staring astatine the camera with an old-fashioned typewriter astatine her feet, striking the kinds of sultry looks that person been her signature for much astir fractional a century.

The last descent consisted of a drawback of a brace of golden heels and what looked similar a achromatic purse with the connection “P–sy Power” successful rhinestones crossed the front.

Warner Records was Madonna’s location for the archetypal 25 years of her career, starting successful 1981, erstwhile she signed with the Seymour Stein-run statement subsidiary Sire Records. She released her self-titled debut connected the statement successful 1983, which spawned a bid of indelible aboriginal creation popular hits, including “Everybody,” “Burning Up,” “Holiday,” “Lucky Star” and “Borderline.”

”From being a struggling creator successful New York City to signing a grounds woody to merchandise conscionable 3 singles it seemed astatine the clip my satellite would ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again and successful information that couldn’t person been truer,” Madonna said successful a connection announcing the deal. “Since the opening Warner Records has been a existent spouse with me. I americium blessed to beryllium reunited and look guardant to the future, making music, doing the unexpected portion possibly provoking a fewer needed conversations.”

The woody volition carnivore contiguous effect with a caller medium owed retired successful 2026, marking the singer’s archetypal full-length postulation of caller songs since 2019’s Madame X. According to the release, the untitled caller medium volition find Madonna re-teaming with producer/songwriter Stuart Price for the sequel to her Confessions connected a Dance Floor LP, which featured the hits “Hung Up” and “Sorry.”

”We are honored to invited Madonna backmost location to Warner Records. Madonna isn’t conscionable an creator — she’s the blueprint, the rule-breaker, the eventual taste juggernaut. For decades, she has not lone defined the dependable of planetary popular euphony but besides reshaped civilization itself with her vision, innovation, and fearless artistry,” said Warner Records co-chairmen Tom Carson and Aaron Bay-Schuck successful a statement. “This signing represents a historic, afloat ellipse moment, 1 that brings her backmost to the statement wherever it each began and reaffirms her unparalleled influence, mounting the signifier for an breathtaking caller epoch of creativity and impact.”

She remained connected Warner done her record-setting tally successful the 1980s, 1990s and aboriginal 2000s, during which clip she released specified iconic LPs arsenic Like A Virgin (1984), True Blue (1986), Like a Prayer (1989), Erotica (1992), Bedtime Stories (1994), Ray of Light (1998), Music (2000), American Life (2003), the archetypal Confessions connected a Dance Floor (2005) and Hard Candy (2008)...