Everything We Know About Chappell Roan’s Next Album

Most of us are still riding high on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, but Chappell Roan already seems to be cooking up something new. The Best New Artist Grammy winner has been dropping hints about upcoming music on social media, sending fans into high alert.

Take, for example, an Instagram she shared on Oct. 29, 2024, in which she poses with a vinyl copy of her 2023 record. “Album kinda popped off imo but it is time to welcome a hot new bombshell into the villa,” she wrote in the caption. Fans freaking out in the comments seem to be wondering: that new bombshell is a new album, right?

And just a few days before that, she shared another possible teaser. Roan posted a carousel of Polaroid photos spelling out the phrase, “She Gets the Job Done,” and wrote in the caption, “This is a clue. Just let that sink in.”

Again, do we smell an album on the way?

We do know that Roan is working on a new record. She told Rolling Stone in 2024 that she would have “from November to mid-May off to write” music following her tour. But her producer, Dan Nigro, said that they already started working on her follow-up to Midwest Princess in July.

So where is she at with the new project? Here’s what we know.

Not exactly. In an August 2025 interview with Vogue, Roan shared that “the second project doesn’t exist yet,” and that “there is no album” and “no collection of songs.”

She continued, “It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next. I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out... I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything. I see some comments sometimes, like, ‘She’s everywhere except that damn studio.’ Even if I was in the studio 12 hours a day, every single day, that does not mean that you would get an album any faster.”

It’s too early to have a track list, but at the time Roan spoke to Rolling Stone for the magazine’s September 2024 cover story, she revealed she had five to six songs she and producer Dan Nigro felt good about. “We have a country song. We have a dancy song. We have one that’s really Eighties, and we have one that’s acoustic, and we have one that’s really organic, live-band, Seventies vibe. It’s super weird,” she said.

Nigro told The New York Times that they have a “fun, up-tempo country song” (which includes a fiddle). “It’s a new version of Chappell,” he added. There are also “a couple of ballads and a mid-tempo rock song.”

But it’s possible those are just standalone singles rather than an album.

Though Roan has already taken “The Subway” to the stage last summer, it likely won’t be her lead single. “I just like performing it,” she told Rolling Stone with a shrug. “I have two others that I really want to perform, too, [but] I don’t know what’s next. When I don’t know, it just hasn’t hit me yet because usually I know. I always have an answer. I don’t think it’s ‘Subway.’”

She made a similar point to Interview Magazine while speaking to Bowen Yang, insisting that it will come on her own time.

“I don’t know what the release plan with ‘The Subway’ is,” Yang told her, “but I feel like if you want that to just be a song that you sing live for a while, and not have it released—”

“That’s how I did the first album, and it fucking worked,” Roan replied. She later added, “My career has worked, because I’ve done it my way, and I’ve not compromised morals and time. I have not succumbed to the pressure.”

But on Aug. 1, 2025, Roan officially released “The Subway.”

On Instagram, she wrote: “I’m very proud of this song & what a journey she has been on. I first played it at gov ball when I was painted green as lady liberty and in the past have played new songs live to feel them out. Obviously not knowing this really chaotic year would follow the performance , it didn’t really leave me the time to build the world the song deserved. But finally we are here. I def ripped my hair out trying to figure out the puzzle of how this song should feel musically and visually and emotionally, luckily there are some to spare. Thank you for sticking it out for a whole year. It was worth it to make sure everything was absolutely right (˘ᴗ˘) xoxo.”

Roan debuted “The Giver” during her Nov. 2, 2024 appearance on Saturday Night Live. This is the song she was hinting at in her earlier Instagram post, with lyrics like, “Ain’t no country boy quitter / I get the job done.”

Billboards started appearing around February 18 teasing the release. The phone number listed on the ads lead to a snippet of the song, much to fans’ delight.

And on March 13, 2025, “The Giver” was released.

“I love this song so much and it’s been such a fun rollout to see the bus benches and billboards and posters and tear-offs wow I am so excited for all of it to come to life!,” Roan wrote on Instagram. “Eeeee!!!!”

She continued, “It is def a bold and scary move to release a full ass country song after only releasing one song last year and it having such a success in the pop genre .. (like I am very scared as I type this lol) but I think that’s the entire point of chappell roan. Be bold and scary and have fun. be popstar girl then pop an edible +watch YouTube vibes . The whole point of this is to be silly !!!”

“There isn’t much of an agenda with this next album,” she told Variety in May 2024. “I plan to do what I have always done: write songs that I love, create music I’m proud of and share that with the world. Maybe I should have more of an answer of what my expectations are [with the album], but at this point, I just don’t know.”

Nigro also said at the time that they were “literally right at the beginning of the recording process, it’s only been a few days.”

Speaking to NYT months later, he said, “We’re still writing from a really fun place. We’ll see what happens.”

This story will be updated.