Charli XCXÂ announced her seventh studio album, Music, Fashion, Film, will be released on July 24 via Atlantic Records.
The British singer, born Charlotte Aitchison, confirmed the news on X, writing, “My new album Music, Fashion, Film is out july 24th. 11 songs, 30 minutes, 5 seconds. available to pre order now, love you xx.”
My new album Music, Fashion, Film is out july 24th. available to pre order now, love you xxhttps://t.co/AWqiXrEbL7 pic.twitter.com/jhwWkC7NsH
— Charli (@charli_xcx) June 1, 2026
The album artwork, shot by frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri, features a black-and-white photograph of John Cale of The Velvet Underground, fashion designer Marc Jacobs and filmmaker Martin Scorsese, representing music, fashion and film.
Charli previously collaborated with Cale on “House” from her Wuthering Heights soundtrack LP, released in February.
The title and its origins
The album title comes from a lyric in “SS26,” one of the record’s tracks. In the song, Charli sings, “We’re walkin’ on a runway that goes straight to hell / Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion or film.”
“SS26” was released on May 21, under an exclusive license to Atlantic Records. Charli co-wrote the track with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane, who also produced it. Inspired by rock music, the song blends dark and dance elements.
The lead single, “Rock Music,” arrived on May 8. Recorded at Rue Boyer studio in Paris in October 2025, the hyperpop track was co-written and produced by Cook and Keane and runs one minute and 55 seconds.
The album marks a deliberate shift from the sound that turned Charli XCX into a mainstream star. Speaking to British Vogue in April, she said, “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad. But what’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”
The first hints of the new era emerged through her Instagram account and studio snippets recorded in Paris. She then sparked discussion with a bold declaration, “I think the dance floor is dead,” Charli said. “So now we’re making rock music.”
She later clarified her comments. “I never said I was making a rock album,” Charli posted on Instagram in May, shortly before releasing “Rock Music.”
Cook addressed the sonic shift in the same British Vogue interview, saying, “It’s not just this flex of, ‘Oh, I did this other album.’ She’s really responding to a feeling that a lot of people have in 2026 of there being so much, almost too much.”
New chapter
The album follows Brat, the record that reshaped Charli’s career and pop culture influence.
At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on February 2, 2025, Charli won her first Grammy Award. “Von Dutch” earned Best Dance Pop Recording, while Brat won Best Dance/Electronic Album. She also received Best Recording Package for Brat, giving her three wins that night.
At the 2025 BRIT Awards, Charli enjoyed the biggest awards show success of her career, taking home Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Best Dance Act, Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year for the “Guess” remix with Billie Eilish. The victories were her first at the BRIT Awards, arriving 12 years into her career.
Accepting Best Dance Act, she said, “I feel like dance music, electronic music, it gets a really bad rep because I feel like everybody’s like ‘Oh, well, it’s not really that deep is it?’ And I kind of feel like it is. For me, it’s euphoric.”
