Bella Kay Teases a Possible Deluxe Edition of Her Debut Album
Singer Bella Kay hinted at a possible deluxe edition of her debut album, My Reckless Abandon, as the guest on the premiere episode of Billboard's new podcast, Up & Coming With Kyle Denis. The episode was published on 10 November 2026. A deluxe edition is an expanded version of an album, usually with extra songs added to the original tracklist.
The podcast was announced on 3 November and is hosted by Kyle Denis, a staff writer at Billboard. Billboard made the show in partnership with SickBird Productions. Kay's appearance was its first episode. Billboard reported that she teased the expanded release during the conversation, but it did not set a date for it.
The album came out on 12 July. It runs 13 songs and is led by the single "iloveitloveitiloveit." Kay co-wrote every song on the record with Alexis "Idarose" Kesselman. Alexander 23 and Thomas LaRosa also contributed.
Chart figures show how the album and its single have done so far. The album reached No. 96 on the Billboard 200, the weekly ranking of the most popular albums in the United States, and No. 14 on Top Alternative Albums. The single peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, the weekly chart for songs, and at No. 2 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. Luminate, the company that tracks music consumption for Billboard, counted more than 269.5 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the song through 7 November. An on-demand stream is one listener playing a track on a streaming service on request.
Kay also spent much of the year on the road. Her headlining Reckless Tour opened on 8 September at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta and closed on 9 October at Austin City Limits Festival in Texas. Earlier in the year she appeared on the cover of Billboard's Up & Coming issue in July, alongside Slayyyter and Trueno. Billboard also named her to its annual 21 Under 21 list.
In September, she received a nomination for best new artist at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. Nominations in that category go to artists judged to have made their breakthrough in the eligible year, and the winners are chosen by the awards' voting process.
For listeners, the podcast is a chance to hear artists talk about the work behind a record, from the writing sessions to the songs that did not make the cut. A deluxe edition would be one way to hear more of that material. Until a release is announced, the teaser is the only word on it.
Kay's path from a debut album to a full tour and an awards nomination in one year is the kind of run the chart listings and streaming counts help to trace. The rest is in the room where the songs were written, and in the crowds that filled the venues on the road.
