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This article is about the album by Madonna. For the song by Usher, see Confessions Part II.

Confessions II is the upcoming fifteenth studio album by the American singer Madonna. It is scheduled to be released on July 3, 2026, through Warner Records. Conceived as a sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005), the album continues Madonna’s exploration of dance and electronic music. She reunited with producer Stuart Price, who co-wrote and produced the original album.

Background and development

Madonna said in a 2022 YouTube video that she wanted to revisit house music.[1] In January 2023, Madonna announced the Celebration Tour, an “anniversary” tour to celebrate her four-decade career.[2][3] Stuart Price returned as the tour’s musical director. Price served as music director on three of Madonna’s previous world tours and produced Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).[4] In June, Madonna appeared on the Weeknd and Playboi Carti‘s single “Popular” and Sam Smith‘s “Vulgar“.[5][6] She also contributed to three tracks on Christine and the Queens‘ album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love (2023). Later that month, Madonna was rushed to the hospital; she was admitted to a several-day stay at an intensive care unit due to a “serious bacterial infection”.[7] On August 15, 2023, rescheduled tour dates were announced.[8] The Celebration Tour officially began in London on October 14, 2023, and wrapped up with a free concert in Rio de Janeiro‘s Copacabana Beach on May 4, 2024, which became Madonna’s largest crowd of her career and at the time set records for the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert and the largest all-time crowd for a female artist.[9][10]

Madonna revealed she was in London working on new music with Price in September 2024.[11][12] On October 6, the Associated Press reported that Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, died.[13] In February 2025, Madonna confirmed that her new music would be a follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005), also produced by Price.[14] In September 2025, Madonna announced that she reunited with her original record label of over 25 years, Warner Records, with the Confessions on a Dance Floor sequel slated for release in 2026.[15][16] On Instagram, she wrote: “Almost 2 decades later – And it Feels like home with Warner Records! Back to music, Back to the Dance Floor, Back to where it all began! COADF- P. 2, 2026”.[a] Warner executives Tom Corson and Aaron Bay-Schuck congratulated her return, describing Madonna as a cultural innovator and characterizing the signing as a significant moment in reaffirming her legacy.[23]

Writing and recording sessions

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. 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.

— Madonna and Price’s “manifesto” while making the album[24]

In March 2023, Madonna posted a photo of herself in the studio with Swedish record producer Max Martin with the caption “When in doubt, go to work. Nothing shuts down the noise or the naysayers more than being in the creative process”.[25][26] In October 2024, Madonna confirmed on Instagram that she was recording new music in London with Stuart Price.[12] She described the creative process as “medicine for my soul” and said that songwriting allows for full artistic freedom without having to “ask anyone for their permission”.[27] Madonna continued to document the recording sessions on social media, posting pictures in the studio with Price throughout 2025.[28] Some of her Instagram stories prominently included a vinyl copy of the house music compilation The House That Trax Built (1996).[29]

Artwork and packaging

New York City-based studio Special Offer, Inc. designed Confessions II’s artwork and packaging.[30] It uses a bright pink, red, and purple color scheme to echo the Confessions on a Dance Floor album art.[30] The digital and deluxe edition employs an “editorial look”, with “Madonna” and “Confessions II” written in Helvetica.[30] On the cover, Madonna is perched on a platform of speakers in a lavender lace bodysuit and matching fishnet stockings with a contrasting pink veil over her head.[31]

Composition

Confessions II is described as a “continuation” of 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor.[32] The album will be released as a non-stop mix, echoing the 2005 release.[33]

“I Feel So Free” is a deep house song “with Madonna uttering a soliloquy over the top”.[34] It interpolates the acid house song “French Kiss” (1989) by Lil Louis as well as “How’s Your Evening so Far” by Lil Louis and Josh Fink,[35] and received comparisons to Madonna’s 2005 song “Future Lovers” and Giorgio Moroder‘s work for Donna Summer.[36][37] “Fragile” and “Forgive Yourself” are about Madonna’s relationship with her estranged late brother Christopher.[38][39] On “Forgive Yourself”, Madonna sings “if you can’t forgive me, forgive yourself”. She explained, “We have to forgive others but we also have to forgive ourselves and stop beating up on ourselves about things, choices we’ve made in the past that haven’t worked out for ourselves or other people”.[39]

Meanwhile, another of the album’s songs, “One Step Away” was promoted in a press release, where Madonna quoted some of the lyrics, “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.”[40]

Release and promotion

Madonna began publicly discussing a Confessions on a Dance Floor sequel for release in 2025.[41][28] Throughout 2025, she continued teasing the album’s release on Instagram, referring to it as Confessions on a Dance Floor Part 2, Confessions Part Deux, and Confessions Part 2.[b] She posted numerous throwbacks to the original Confessions era and wore archival looks from the album’s promotion.[43][44] Additionally, in advance of the sequel album, Madonna released a twentieth anniversary edition of Confessions on a Dance Floor on streaming and digital retailers, a first-ever vinyl pressing, and a Record Store Day vinyl release of 2006’s The Confessions Tour.[45][46] In September 2025, Madonna made her first-ever podcast interview on an episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty.[47] During the interview, she revealed the titles of two songs from the album: “Fragile” and “Forgive Yourself”.[39] Various publications listed the Confessions sequel among their most anticipated albums of 2026, including Clash,[48] Esquire,[49] The Fader,[50] Rolling Stone,[51] and Variety.[52]

On April 14, 2026, Madonna cleared her Instagram profile and uploaded a blurred profile picture.[53] Her website was updated to display a series of designs including the text “Confessions on a Dance Floor”, “Confessions II”, and “COADF2” in all-caps, sans-serif typefaces, followed by a static image of a silver speaker in between Madonna’s legs soundtracked by ambient music.[30][54][55] In the photo, she is wearing a “glittery update” to custom-made lace-up Yves Saint Laurent boots from the first Confessions era.[56] The following day, Madonna officially announced Confessions II on Instagram.[57] Simultaneously, its preorder started, including CD, vinyl and cassette,[58] and wheatpaste posters appeared in major cities.[30] On April 17, 2026, Madonna joined American-singer Sabrina Carpenter on the Coachella 2026, where they performed a new song, along with “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer“.[59]

Singles and other songs

Madonna previewed the opening track “I Feel So Free” in a 60-second video alongside the album’s announcement.[60] The full song premiered on iHeartRadio‘s Pride Radio on April 17, 2026, and subsequently was released on all streaming platforms the following day.[36][61]

Track listing

Confessions II track listing[62]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1.“I Feel So Free“
5:03

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer.

Release history

Release history
Date Edition Format(s) Ref.
July 3, 2026 Standard
[63][64][65]

Notes

  1. ^ Attributed to multiple sources[17][18][19][20][21][22]
  2. ^ Supported by multiple sources:[14][41][42][43]

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