Ariana Grande gave fans a major surprise during her third straight night at the Kia Forum, unveiling the full tracklist for her upcoming album Petal on the venue’s giant screen in Inglewood, California, on Friday, June 19.
Set for release on July 31 through Republic Records and BabyDoll Music, the 12-track project is co-executive produced by Grande alongside her longtime collaborator ILYA (Ilya Salmanzadeh).
Displayed in Ariana’s signature lowercase style, the album’s tracklist includes:
- “kiss me”
- “hate that i made you love me”
- “petal”
- “stay”
- “oh well”
- “big feelings”
- “freak”
- “(warning signs)”
- “like i do”
- “never get over me”
- “bad thing (bunny hop)”
- “nowhere, nobody.”
Grande had been teasing individual track titles during pre-show countdowns at earlier Eternal Sunshine Tour stops before locking in the full sequence.
Petal, Grande’s eighth studio album, follows 2024’s Eternal Sunshine, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She first announced her next project in April.
Grande described the album’s theme in a social media post.
“Something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging,” she said. “It’s kind of about breaking up with all different kinds of negative attachments, whether it’s my own monsters in my own head, external voices, things that no longer serve me.”
She also characterized the record’s tone as a departure from earlier restraint.
“It’s a little feral as well,” Grande said. “It’s definitely from a place that I have been maybe like too shy or polite to tap into before. And this kind of just feels like, f–k it.”
The Eternal Sunshine Tour, which launched June 6 in Oakland, California, wraps with a 10-night residency at The O2 in London set to close Sept. 1.
In January, Grande threw fans off the scent of new music by claiming that she would need a new brain in order to even process something new.
During a conversation with Variety, Grande made it clear that she wasn’t releasing any new music before going on tour.
“No—definitely not. Nothing is coming before May,” she said before addressing fans more directly. “I love them so much, but sometimes I want to ask, ‘Do you think there’s another version of me out there who had time to write an album?’ Not yet—but soon enough.”
