Twenty-one years after she reinvented the dancefloor, Madonna is walking back onto it. Confessions II, the long-teased sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, lands Friday, July 3, 2026 via Warner Records. And if the first reviews are anything to go by, she did not phone it in.
TL;DR: Madonna’s 16-track Confessions II drops July 3, reuniting her with producer Stuart Price. Guests include Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Stromae, Martin Garrix and daughter Lola Leon. NME calls it her “most vital album in over two decades” (4/5). Lead single “I Feel So Free” already hit No. 1 on a Billboard chart, her first in 18 years.
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When does ‘Confessions II’ come out?
Midnight local, July 3. It’s Madonna’s fifteenth studio album and, per Wikipedia’s release page, it ships with 16 tracks on the standard digital edition through Warner Records.
The pitch is right there in the title: this is a direct follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, the 2005 record that gave the world “Hung Up” and briefly made the entire pop industry sound like a discotheque.
Madonna got the band back together
The headline reunion is with Stuart Price, the British producer who architected the original Confessions sound and co-writes and co-produces the bulk of this one.
He’s joined by a deep bench, Cirkut, Tainy, Martin Garrix and Andrew Watt all have production credits, according to Wikipedia.
But according to NME, the sound has shifted. Where the 2005 album lived in glossy “disco-house,” Price told NME at a listening session that Confessions II leans harder into Detroit and Chicago house. It opens with “I Feel So Free,” a deep-house cut built on a sample of Lil Louis’ 1989 classic “French Kiss.”
The ‘Confessions II’ features list
This is where it gets fun. The confirmed guest list, per Wikipedia:
- Sabrina Carpenter – “Bring Your Love”
- Feid – “Read My Lips”
- Martin Garrix – “Bizarre”
- Stromae – “My Sins Are My Savior”
- Lola Leon (Madonna’s eldest daughter) – “The Test”
That Sabrina Carpenter link-up is the crossover bait, two generations of pop on one lead single. NME singles out the closing stretch as the emotional core: “Fragile,” a rave ballad honoring Madonna’s late brother Christopher, and “The Test,” a trip-hop-flavored duet with Lola Leon.
The singles are already working
Two tracks are out ahead of the album. “Bring Your Love” with Sabrina Carpenter dropped April 30 and reached No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 29 in the UK, per Wikipedia. “Love Sensation” followed on June 4.
The bigger flex: “I Feel So Free” topped Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, reportedly Madonna’s first No. 1 on a Billboard radio chart in 18 years.
About that Times Square stunt
If your feed was flooded with Madonna in early June, this is why. On June 4, she staged a surprise Pride-month pop-up at The Square, a new Times Square venue wrapped in 18,000 square feet of LED screens, in a show sponsored by Grindr, Billboard reports.
She previewed new Confessions II material alongside classics like “Hung Up,” “Get Together” and “I Love New York,” greeting the crowd with a very Madonna: “All right New York City, are you ready for this?…C’mon, gays. Happy Pride!”
Grindr’s own promo materials described it as a global in-app broadcast, though Billboard’s writeup focused on the LED-screen spectacle rather than the stream, so treat the “livestreamed to the world” framing as the brand’s claim, not confirmed reporting.
What the critics are saying
Early word is strong. NME’s 4/5 review calls it her “most vital album in over two decades,” writing that “by drawing from her past, both personally and musically,” Madonna proves “this grande dame still knows how to make us move.”
What to watch next
- Midnight, July 3: full album out, watch how the deep cuts (“Danceteria,” “Fragile”) land with stan Twitter versus the radio singles.
- First-week numbers: can the Sabrina Carpenter co-sign push Confessions II to a strong Billboard 200 debut? Her fanbase is a wildcard.
- A tour? No dates are confirmed yet. Given the Celebration run and this album’s dancefloor DNA, any residency or tour tease will move fast.
- The Carpenter single: if “Bring Your Love” gets a video or awards-show performance, expect a second wind on the Hot 100.
For now, set an alarm. The Queen of Pop is betting she can own the dance floor twice.
