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Mad!

Mad! is the 28th studio album by the American rock duo Sparks, released on May 23, 2025 through Transgressive Records, their first album for the label.

Malcolm Todd (album)

Malcolm Todd (album): self-titled 2025 debut studio album by American bedroom-pop singer Malcolm Todd, released via Columbia Records; peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200, spawned the Hot 100 hit Chest Pain (I Love), and received a deluxe edition, Malcolm Todd (still).

Man's Best Friend (Sabrina Carpenter album)

Man's Best Friend is Sabrina Carpenter's seventh studio album, released August 29, 2025 on Island Records; a 12-track disco-tinged breakup follow-up to Short n' Sweet, led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "Manchild," with a controversial cover and six Grammy nominations.

Mayhem (Lady Gaga album)

Mayhem (MAYHEM) is Lady Gaga's seventh studio album, released 7 March 2025 on Interscope. Recorded at Shangri-La with Andrew Watt, Cirkut, Gesaffelstein, and Michael Polansky, it topped UK and US charts and won the 2026 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Midnight Sun (Zara Larsson album)

Midnight Sun, also Midnight Sun: Girls Trip (deluxe), is Zara Larsson's 2025 dance-pop album on Epic, themed on the Swedish midnight sun; its title track earned her first Grammy nomination.

Midnights

Midnights is Taylor Swift's tenth studio album, released October 21, 2022 on Republic Records, a synth-pop concept album about 13 sleepless nights, produced entirely with Jack Antonoff. It broke US first-week sales and streaming records, occupied the Hot 100 top 10, and won the 2024 Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album Grammys.

Mr. Peaked in High School

Mr. Peaked in High School is Bea Miller's third studio album, released September 18, 2026 via Republic Records; 13 tracks, first full-length since Aurora (2018), titled from a "born to lose" lyric.

Music for People Who Believe in Love

Music for People Who Believe in Love is Joe Jonas's second solo album, released on May 23, 2025, and his first since Fastlife in 2011.

Music of the Spheres (Coldplay album)

Music of the Spheres is Coldplay's ninth studio album, released 15 October 2021, produced by Max Martin, a 12-track sci-fi concept album with BTS and Selena Gomez, UK number one, Metacritic 55, followed by the Music of the Spheres World Tour.

Music, Fashion, Film

Music, Fashion, Film is the eighth studio album by British pop artist Charli xcx, released July 2026 on Atlantic; an 11-track, 30-minute guitar-based rock-pop record made in Paris with A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, debuting at UK Number 1.

My Ego Told Me To

My Ego Told Me To is the 2026 debut solo album by Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock, released independently via Virgin Music Group/Made in The 90s, rooted in reggae and her Jamaican and Barbadian heritage, peaking at UK number 3.

Negative Spaces

Negative Spaces is Poppy's sixth studio album, released November 15, 2024 on Sumerian Records, co-produced by ex-Bring Me The Horizon's Jordan Fish; a 15-track metalcore-pop record scoring 86 on Metacritic.

Nu King

Nu King is the fifth studio album by American singer Jason Derulo, released on February 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records as his first album since 2015.

Perimenopop

Perimenopop is Sophie Ellis-Bextor's eighth studio album, a pop-disco record released September 12, 2025 on Decca Records; its title, coined as a joke with co-writer Hannah Robinson, fuses perimenopause with pop, and it peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart.

Period (album)

Period (album) covers two albums with this title: City Girls' 2018 debut mixtape Period on Quality Control (16 tracks) and Kesha's 2025 independent sixth album . (Period) on Kesha Records, plus other minor uses.

Perrie (album)

Perrie is the 2025 self-titled debut solo album by Perrie Edwards of Little Mix, released 26 September 2025 on Columbia Records; 16 tracks, UK Albums Chart number 3, singles including Forget About Us and If He Wanted To He Would.

Petal (album)

petal is Ariana Grande's eighth studio album, released July 31, 2026 on Babydoll Music/Republic Records. Produced with ILYA and Max Martin, it channels "unfiltered rage" across 12 tracks; lead single "hate that i made you love me" debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100.

Piss in the Wind

Piss in the Wind is Joji's (George Miller's) fourth studio album, released February 6, 2026 on his label Palace Creek via Virgin Music after leaving 88 Rising; 21 short tracks with guests GIVĒON, Yeat, Don Toliver, and 4batz.

Plastic Hearts

Plastic Hearts is Miley Cyrus's seventh studio album, released November 27, 2020 via RCA Records; a rock and glam rock record with Billy Idol, Dua Lipa, Joan Jett, and Stevie Nicks, peaking at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on Top Rock Albums.

Play (Ed Sheeran album)

Play is Ed Sheeran's eighth studio album, released September 12, 2025 on Gingerbread Man/Atlantic UK. First of a new symbol-titled series after the Mathematics albums, recorded on tour and finished in Goa, India, with the singles Azizam and Sapphire featuring Arijit Singh.

Popstar (Tinashe album)

Popstar is Tinashe's eighth studio album, released September 25, 2026 on Nice Life/Atlantic; 16 tracks in 39 minutes, no features, promoted by "Too Easy," "Crash Out," and "Melatonin," and awarded Pitchfork's 9.0 Best New Music.

Positions (album)

Positions is Ariana Grande's sixth studio album, released October 30, 2020 on Republic Records; a lockdown-recorded, R&B-focused 14-track set with Doja Cat, The Weeknd, and Ty Dolla $ign that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

Princess of Power (album)

Princess of Power is MARINA's sixth studio album, released June 6, 2025 on her own Queenie Records via BMG; her first fully independent release, a 13-track disco-pop album that peaked at number 7 on the UK albums chart.

Radical Optimism

Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa's third studio album, released 3 May 2024 on Warner Records; a psychedelic electro-pop record with Kevin Parker and Danny L Harle that debuted at UK Number 1. Distinct from the philosophical term and Bruteau's 1993 book of the same name.

Rare (Selena Gomez album)

Rare (2020) is the third solo studio album by Selena Gomez, released January 10, 2020 on Interscope, 13 songs in 41 minutes. Follows 2015's Revival; lead single "Lose You to Love Me" was her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.

Recovery (Aaron Carter album)

Recovery is a 2024 posthumous album by American singer Aaron Carter, collecting previously unheard music assembled by his family after his death in November 2022.

Red (Taylor's Version)

Red (Taylor's Version) is Taylor Swift's 2021 Republic Records re-recording of her 2012 album Red, second in the Taylor's Version project: 30 tracks, nine vault songs, and the 10-minute All Too Well.

Renaissance (Beyoncé album)

Renaissance (stylized RENAISSANCE) is Beyoncé's seventh studio album, released July 29, 2022 on Parkwood/Columbia; Act I of a trilogy, a 16-track house, disco, and ballroom celebration of Black queer club culture that won the 2023 Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.

Room Under the Stairs

Room Under the Stairs is the fourth studio album by Zayn, released May 17, 2024, on Mercury Records. Co-produced with Dave Cobb and recorded in a shoe cupboard at his rural Pennsylvania home, it shifts from R&B toward stripped-back, country-inspired material.

Rosie (Rosé album)

rosie is the debut studio album by BLACKPINK's Rosé, released December 6, 2024 via Atlantic Records and THEBLACKLABEL. The 12-track, 36-minute English-language breakup album, whose lead single "APT." with Bruno Mars was the first female K-pop Hot 100 Top 10 hit, earned a Metacritic score of 70.