Madison Beer Announces New Album!

Announcing the news on her social media, the singer posted the album’s cover art, telling fans that it is due to come out on January 16, 2026, and sharing that she’s never been “so proud” or “excited” about a project in her career.

The new album also features production contributions from her longtime collaborators One Love, LOSTBOY, and Leroy Clampitt.

“After writing the album it feels like each song lives within this metaphorical locket for safekeeping,” said Beer.

“Each album feels like an era and once the albums are out in the world the chapter for me, usually with what I wrote about, is closed.”

This comes after she released her track ‘Bittersweet’ earlier this month. In a new music video Beer explores the themes of love and heartbreak and depicts a breakup with her on-screen partner, who is played by Sean Kaufman of The Summer I Turned Pretty

Earlier this month, Beer performed ‘Bittersweet’ live for the first time as part of her set at the 2025 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. She also sang hits like ‘Make You Mine’ and ‘Yes Baby’. Also performing were Missy Elliott and Karol G, and it marked just the second time in Victoria Secret’s Fashion Show’s long history that the fashion show featured an all-women performance line-up.

Last year, Madison Beer spoke to NME about how “there is a lot of guilt put on you” when turning down opportunities she’s not comfortable with.

“People are like, ‘Oh, someone else is going to take your place’, and like, it’s not a competition,” she said. “Someone else can take my place. I’m always going to be me,” she said. “And I think that that’s been something that’s really helped my mental health because I don’t look at it as a competition.”

When asked about where she sees herself in this current wave of pop music, the singer said that she is satisfied with taking things at her own pace.

“I obviously hope to always grow and I hope my concerts always get bigger, but I’m OK with being more of the tortoise. It makes me proud,” she said. “And I feel like I have a really core, real fanbase that grows with me.”

At the same time, she also admitted that she doesn’t know if she could “deal with” that level of popularity.

“The amount of stuff that goes on when you are Number One – whatever that even means – is quite intense and I’m pretty happy with where I’m at.”

NME awarded Beer’s 2023 album, ‘Silence Between Songs‘, three stars in a review: “We have something of a signature sound for much of ‘Silence Between Songs’, a clear nod to Tame Impala’s psych-rock as well as swooning ‘60s pop and rock.”

Madison Beer is ready to make some bangers. The 26-year-old pop singer and social media star spent the past few years setting the record straight, releasing diaristic tracks to share what happened behind the scenes of her rocket-fueled ascent to fame. Now, with the past exorcised and well documented, she’s eager to have a little fun.

Beer was just a 13-year-old girl from Long Island, New York, when Justin Bieber tweeted out her YouTube cover of Etta James’s “At Last.” Soon after, she was signed to Island Records and began working with Bieber’s then manager, Scooter Braun. But the life-changing turn of events also thrust her into a harsh and unforgiving spotlight. Beer’s overnight celebrity, and the attention that came from being connected to several high-profile male musicians, made her a target for cyberbullying. When she was 15, an intimate video she’d sent to a friend was posted online; instead of defending her right to privacy, internet trolls shamed her for making the video in the first place. At 16, she was dropped by her label and management. “I was always being tried as an adult,” Beer says now. “I was trying to navigate how to be a person, and I’d have the whole internet to report to.

She told her side of the story in her 2023 memoir, The Half of It, and in her sophomore album, Silence Between Songs, released the same year, detailing how her mental health plummeted, that she contemplated suicide, and how she ultimately recovered. “There were things I wanted to say that were important to me,” she reflects. “I feel like I really did achieve that.” She embarked on a 63-stop world tour, selling out venues including Radio City Music Hall.

Madison Beer knew her third album would be called Locket long before she even really dug into making it. After wrapping her most recent tour last fall, she was ready to dive into a new project, and this time around, the title felt important to her. She wanted it to feel authentic to who she is as an artist, perhaps an item or a word that felt tangible.

“I was in my Notes app for weeks on end just writing words I related to,” she says over the phone in early October. “I just kept on gravitating towards [Locket] every single time I would read the list.”

The word became a north star for Beer and her collaborators before they even got back into the studio. They would listen to songs or exchange ideas and say things like “This is so Locket” or “Locket-core.” 

As she describes it, both the album and the accessory it’s named after feel like a vessel for her memories. Locket holds all the experiences she’s had that make the project what it is now. 

“Each song contains things that are in my locket that I carry around with me,” she says. 

Nostalgia runs deep in Beer’s new music. She wanted to return to the pop sound of her early releases and looked toward early favorites including Ariana Grande, SZA, and Gwen Stefani for inspiration. But Locket’s pop return comes with a growing confidence in her talent, thanks to successful experimentations with her sound and lyricism on recent releases like 2023’s more introspective Silence Between Songs