After months of teasing, Madonna has finally shared details of her new album ‘Confessions II’ – the much-anticipated sequel to her 2005 LP ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ – which is set for release on July 3.
Having first started hinting at the project last February, the Queen of Pop last year revealed her return to Warner Records and confirmed a 2026 release for the LP, which is a collaboration with producer Stuart Price and her first since 2019’s ‘Madame X’.
After wiping her Instagram page earlier this week and subsequently rebranding her official website, the ‘Nothing Really Matters’ hitmaker has now revealed the pink and lilac album cover in a post on the page, sharing the title and release date in the caption.
The standard edition of the album includes 12 songs, with the deluxe featuring 16. Both are available to pre-order now.
Although a tracklist has yet to be released, Madonna revealed the first song will be titled ‘One Step Away’ and explained the concept of the record, quoting the opening lines of that track: ‘People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong. The dance floor is not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language’.
On the project, she added: “When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies.
“These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect —with your wounds, with your fragility.”
“To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” she added. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions, pulling us into a trance-like state.
“The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
The original ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ album featured singles ‘Hung Up’, ‘Sorry’, ‘Get Together’ and ‘Jump’, selling around four million copies in its first week and topping the charts in over 40 countries.
