Madonna releases new dance album ‘Confessions II’ featuring Martin Garrix, Sabrina Carpenter, and more

Madonna drops a new dance album, proving she’s the true queen of pop more than 20 years after her prequel Confessions.

The Queen of Pop is back on the dance floor. On July 3, 2026, Madonna released Confessions II, her fifteenth studio album and the long-awaited sequel to 2005’s beloved Confessions on a Dance Floor. Out through Warner Records, the label where it all began, the record is a full-circle homecoming more than two decades in the making.

For the follow-up, Madonna reunited with producer Stuart Price, the mastermind behind the original album’s seamless, euphoric sound. The pair are joined by additional production from experimental heavyweight Arca and Italian duo Parisi, plus a guest list built for the club, Martin Garrix, Sabrina Carpenter, and more lending their star power to the mix. Like its predecessor, Confessions II plays as one continuous, non-stop DJ set, designed to be experienced from start to finish without ever leaving the floor.

The lead single, “Bring Your Love,” pairs Madonna with pop’s reigning it-girl Sabrina Carpenter over a sun-soaked house-pop groove that samples Inner City’s 1988 classic “Good Life.” The two previewed the track together at Coachella 2026, where Carpenter brought Madonna out for a show-stopping cameo. Opening track “I Feel So Free” sets the tone from the first beat; a hypnotic deep-house cut interpolating Lil Louis’s acid-house landmark “French Kiss,” with critics already drawing comparisons to Giorgio Moroder’s golden-era work with Donna Summer.

But Confessions II isn’t all sweat and strobe lights. Beneath the beats, Madonna gets personal on songs like “Fragile” and “Forgive Yourself,” both written about her late brother Christopher Ciccone, who died in 2024. “We have to forgive others, but we also have to forgive ourselves,” she explained, framing the dance floor as a place of release as much as celebration.

Wrapped in bright pink, red, and purple artwork that nods straight back to the 2005 era, Confessions II is Madonna doing what she does best: turning the club into a cathedral. Twenty years on, the confession booth is open again.

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