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Ariana Grande Releases Eighth Studio Album 'Petal'

Kiran MachadoPublished 7h ago3 min readBased on 11 sources
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Ariana Grande Releases Eighth Studio Album 'Petal'

Ariana Grande's eighth studio album, Petal, arrived on streaming services at midnight ET on Friday, July 31, 2026. The 12-track release is her first full-length project since Eternal Sunshine, which dropped roughly two years earlier, and her first album since her role in the film Wicked (Billboard; AP News).

Grande had signalled the album's emotional register well before release. She told fans it was "written from a place … [of] unfiltered rage," according to Billboard. That tone is already audible in the record's lone pre-release single, "hate that i made you love me," which dropped in June and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — her 10th career chart-topper on that tally, the weekly US singles ranking that combines sales, radio airplay and streaming activity.

The album's full tracklist runs as follows, per Grande's official store:

  1. kiss me
  2. hate that i made you love me
  3. petal
  4. stay
  5. oh well
  6. big feelings
  7. freak
  8. warning

The remaining four track titles were not listed in the verified sources available. The title track, "petal," was debuted live during an Eternal Sunshine tour stop in Montreal before the album's release, and Grande previewed two other songs — "oh well" and "freak" — with a cappella snippets posted on Instagram (Billboard).

Petal was first announced on April 28, 2026, via an official press release from Universal Music Canada (Universal Music Canada). The album is released through Republic Records, Grande's longtime label, which lists the project on its official store (Republic Records).

Physical and digital editions are available across multiple storefronts. On Grande's official US store, the digital album is priced at $9.99 and the CD at $13.99, with both shipping or delivering on July 31. The UK store lists the digital album at £10.99. Republic Records is also selling a translucent pearly white vinyl LP for $32.99, which includes a gatefold jacket and a 16-page, 12×12-inch booklet of lyrics and photos; the label's CD edition ships within the United States only (Grande's US store; Republic Records).

For fans, the arrival of Petal closes a two-year gap that saw Grande step into film with Wicked and then return to the studio with what she described as a rawer creative impulse. The album's rollout was lean by current major-label standards: one single, a handful of Instagram previews, and a live title-track debut on tour. First-week chart numbers — the streaming equivalent album units and sales totals that will determine Petal's Billboard 200 debut, the weekly US album chart — will be reported in the coming week.