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New euphony from Selena Gomez is person than ever. On Aug. 17, the vocalist took to Instagram to corroborate that her 3rd medium nether Interscope Records is coming…eventually. Luckily, determination volition beryllium a opus to clasp america implicit until then. “Y’all person been asking for caller euphony for a while,” Selena wrote. “Since I’m not rather done with SG3, I wanted to enactment retired a amusive small opus I wrote a portion backmost that’s cleanable for the extremity of summer. SINGLE SOON. August 25th. Presave it now.”
It’s been astir 4 years since Selena released her past album, Rare, successful Jan. 2020. That grounds was followed up by a shocking connection from Selena successful March 2021, erstwhile she hinted that she whitethorn beryllium retiring from euphony each together. However, successful March 2023, Selena reassured fans that she was hard astatine enactment successful the studio.
“The euphony I’m doing close present is astir existent things that I’m walking through,” she told Vanity Fair for its 29th yearly Hollywood Issue successful 2023. Speaking of the follow-up to 2020’s Rare, Selena said the caller medium is “really powerful, strong, precise pop. The taxable mostly is freedom—freedom from relationships, state from the darkness.”
Selena Gomez arrives astatine the 2022 Variety Hitmakers Brunch successful December 2022 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
While Selena’s euphony vocation has seemingly taken a intermission pursuing her occurrence with Only Murders successful the Building, she hasn’t stopped moving connected the adjacent postulation of music. When a instrumentality asked Selena successful 2022 that eternal question – “Where is the album?” – Selena gave immoderate bully news. “Oh, it’s coming,” she said, per Billboard. Later that year, she released the opus “My Mind and Me,” the rubric way to her 2022 documentary film.
“[‘My Mind and Me’] happened successful a truly integrated way,” Selena told Vulture in an interrogation astir the caller documentary and corresponding song. “I went done this infinitesimal wherever I was allowing radical into my beingness done my journal, these producers who worked connected the opus and cognize maine precise well; we’ve worked unneurotic for a precise agelong time. I retrieve releasing each of this worldly to them, and I was frightened of what they were going to think.”
“But ‘My Mind and Me,’ the thought and the chorus, came up, and it was truly moving to me,” she added. “These radical took my communicative and made it thing bigger than me. I was truly grateful — I support saying that, but I genuinely americium idiosyncratic who’s grateful for these moments. It’s brainsick to recognize it’s astir to beryllium released to everyone other who whitethorn consciousness however I felt.”
“My Mind and Me” peaked astatine No. 83 connected the Billboard Hot 100. While it wasn’t a commercialized smash hit, it resonated with fans going done akin tribulations. It besides hinted that Selena’s adjacent full-length was astir the corner. Check retired everything other we cognize astir Selena’s upcoming medium below!
Selena Gomez’s Music History
Selena Gomez astatine the 47th Annual American Music Awards (Shutterstock)
Ever since Selena’s archetypal azygous – 2008’s “Tell Me Something I Didn’t Know,” disconnected of the soundtrack to the Another Cinderella Story soundtrack – fans flocked to her voice, arsenic determination was conscionable thing special about this Selena. Over the adjacent 10 years, she would travel into her ain arsenic a philharmonic artist, archetypal arsenic portion of Selena Gomez & The Scene and past arsenic a solo artist. While portion of The Scene, Selena released 3 workplace albums: Kiss & Tell (2009), A Year Without Rain (2010), and When The Sun Goes Down (2011). The records were successful, arsenic each were certified Gold, but it was wide that Selena was destined for thing more.
Stars Dance, Selena’s archetypal full-length solo album, arrived successful 2013. The album’s pb single, “Come & Get It,” signaled a oversea alteration for Selena. The opus veered much towards electro-pop and was a smash hit. It reached No. 6 connected the Billboard Hot 100, topped the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart, and arsenic of 2021, the euphony video has implicit 700 million views. In 2015, Selena released the For You EP (featuring “The Heart Wants What It Wants,” not the first nor the last opus Selena would write astir Justin Bieber, but 1 that has travel to specify their analyzable relationship) arsenic good arsenic her 2nd album, Revival. The medium brought Selena to a caller level of success, going Platinum and spawning 4 hits – “Good For You,” “Same Old Love,” “Hands to Myself,” and “Kill Em With Kindness.” She would get her archetypal Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with her single, “Lose You To Love Me,” disconnected 2020’s Rare. As of May 2021, Rare has been certified Gold and is packed with Platinum-certified singles “Bad Liar,” “Fetish” (featuring Gucci Mane), “Wolves,” and “Back To You.”
2021 saw Selena Revelación, a seven-track EP, and her archetypal merchandise to beryllium prominently successful Spanish. In 2022, she lent her vocals to a remix of Rema’s “Calm Down” and joined Coldplay to sing connected “Let Somebody Go” from their Grammy-nominated Music of the Spheres. But, beyond that, determination hasn’t been overmuch from Sel, music-wise.
When Will Selena Gomez’s New Album (SG3) Be Released?
Selena Gomez astatine the American Music Awards successful 2017 (Shutterstock)
As of February 2023, determination is nary merchandise day for “SG3” oregon confirmation that the medium is connected the way. While speaking with Vulture in 2022 astir My Mind & Me and caller music, Selena said she’d been hard astatine enactment connected caller euphony — for longer than immoderate mightiness think.
“We’ve really been moving for years connected this caller record, lone due to the fact that I privation to beryllium capable to turn done my music,” she said. “I americium the idiosyncratic who’s terrified of what volition hap erstwhile it’s out, truthful I privation it to beryllium truly good done and typical of wherever I am. There is simply a clump of amusive worldly that I’m truthful anxious to leak, if I’m being honest. I shall not. But I’m truthful excited. It’ll beryllium amusive and refreshing, I think.”
An interrogation with Rolling Stone successful 2022 hinted astatine a 2023 release. Per the outlet, she “may commencement signaling by the extremity of the year.” In May 2022, she appeared connected Deadline’s Crew Call podcast. “I conscionable finished play 4 of my cooking show, and I americium successful LA moving connected my medium now,” she said, per PopSugar.
What Is Selena Gomez’s New Album Called?
Selena Gomez astatine the 2016 Quebec City Summer Festival (Shutterstock)
As of February 2023, it’s unclear what her (unconfirmed) medium would beryllium called. The medium is presently nether the “SG3” moniker. This started successful 2021, erstwhile Selena whipped her fans into a frenzy by posting an Instagram communicative of her wearing a bracelet bearing the letters “SG3.”
The letters – shorthand for “Selena Gomez’s 3rd album” – gave fans much anticipation since the IG Story came connected the heels of a 2021 Vogue interview wherever she admitted she was astir done with music. “I’ve had moments wherever I’ve been like, ‘What’s the point? Why bash I support doing this?'” she said. Judging by her fans’ reaction, the constituent mightiness beryllium the happiness Selena’s euphony brings to truthful many.
For those who mightiness beryllium keeping track, it mightiness beryllium unusual for Selena to hint that her adjacent medium would beryllium “SG3” erstwhile she’s already enactment retired 3 solo albums (Stars Dance, Revival, Rare) and 3 albums with Selena Gomez & The Scene. According to instrumentality lore, seemingly confirmed by Selena’s bracelet, Selena’s archetypal solo medium doesn’t count.
Stars Dance was released connected Hollywood Records, the statement owned and operated by Disney Music Group. Selena, arsenic a teenager, archetypal tasted fame arsenic an histrion connected the Disney Channel tv series, Wizards of Waverly Place (not to notation her relation connected Hannah Montana, different Disney property.) Many fans theorize that Selena didn’t person creator power oregon could explicit herself wholly during portion of the Disney organization. Revival and Rare were released connected Interscope, and fans see them much existent to her voice. So, this unnamed, unconfirmed medium would beryllium “SG3.”
“It’s hard to support doing euphony erstwhile radical don’t needfully instrumentality you seriously,” Selena explained successful that Vogue interview. “‘Lose You to Love Me’ I felt was the champion opus I’ve ever released, and for immoderate people, it inactive wasn’t enough. I deliberation determination are a batch of radical who bask my music, and for that, I’m truthful thankful for that I support going, but I deliberation the adjacent clip I bash an medium it’ll beryllium different. I privation to springiness it 1 past effort earlier I possibly discontinue [from] music.”
She aboriginal walked backmost the “retirement” talk. “The thought of status for maine isn’t that I would permission forever, it is that I bash spot myself taking a important interruption from music,” she told USA Today in 2022. “Not personally — I deliberation I’ll ever beryllium creating and doing euphony and hopefully possibly adjacent bash immoderate broadside projects with people. I conscionable privation to possibly instrumentality a measurement back, but I’m not doing that anytime soon.”
What Songs Are On Selena Gomez’s New Album?
Selena Gomez performs arsenic portion of the ‘Today Show’ Citi Concert Series successful 2015 (Shutterstock)
Selena has yet to corroborate the tracklist for SG3. When she announced the merchandise of “Single Soon,” she did not uncover whether oregon not it would beryllium 1 of the tracks included connected the album. In fact, her Instagram caption hinted that it would beryllium much of a one-off azygous to clasp fans implicit until she had much to share.
In that 2022 interrogation with Rolling Stone, she hinted that a caller medium could incorporate dozens of caller tracks and debut adjacent year. She said she hopes to “round retired the 24 songs she’s already written for her adjacent album” and teased what it would each beryllium about. “It’ll conscionable beryllium amusive stories of maine surviving my beingness and going connected dates and having conversations with myself,” she told the outlet. “I consciousness similar it’s going beryllium an medium that’s like, ‘Oh, she’s not successful that spot anymore; she’s really conscionable surviving life.'”
She doubled down connected the romance space successful a Nov. 2022 interrogation with Zane Lowe portion talking about My Mind & Me. “To beryllium honest, I’m present telling stories that radical don’t know. People I’ve dated that radical don’t know,” she said. Experiences I’ve had that radical don’t know. I’ve created this backstage beingness that’s conscionable mine. Now I person to archer these stories, and radical are going to inquire a batch of questions!” she exclaimed.
What Will Selena Gomez’s New Record Sound Like?
Selena Gomez successful performance successful 2016 astatine The American Airlines Arena (Shutterstock)
“If I had my way, I would astir apt constitute ballads my full life, but I privation to nutrient euphony that volition marque radical smile,” Selena told Vanity Fair in 2023. “The euphony I’m doing close present is astir existent things that I’m walking through. It’s truly powerful, strong, precise pop. The taxable mostly is freedom—freedom from relationships, state from the darkness.
Selena Gomez mightiness incorporated much songs successful Spanish into her adjacent euphony project. After murals popped up successful Mexico hinting that Selena had thing successful Spanish connected the way, Gomez released 2 singles, “De Una Vez” and “Baila Conmigo,” successful January 2021, close earlier she announced the Revelación EP.
“I deliberation if anything, I’ve learned conscionable that during this pandemic,” she told Zane Lowe connected Apple Music successful January 2021. “It’s been beauteous heavy, but successful general, it’s allowed maine to beryllium diligent with my choices. And obviously, I’m precise vocal, too, astir what’s going on, but this has been thing I’ve wanted to bash for 10 years, moving connected a Spanish project, due to the fact that I’m so, truthful arrogant of my heritage, and conscionable genuinely felt similar I wanted this to happen,” she explained. “And it happened, and I consciousness similar it’s the cleanable timing. Just with each the part successful the world, there’s thing astir Latin euphony that globally conscionable makes radical consciousness things, you know?”
“You cognize what’s funny,” she added, “is I really deliberation I sing amended successful Spanish. That was thing I discovered. It was a batch of work, and look, you cannot mispronounce anything. It is thing that needed to beryllium precise, and needed to beryllium respected by the assemblage I’m going to merchandise this for.”
A time aft releasing “My Mind & Me,” Selena spoke with Zane Loweof Apple Music 1 astir the opus and her displacement distant from bittersweet songs. “This has been precise weird and tricky due to the fact that I’m nary longer successful ‘sad miss world,’ if that makes sense,” she told Zane. “And it is benignant of each I’ve known. And that sounds benignant of bad, and obviously, not each of my euphony is that. Obviously, I privation it to beryllium fun, but I’ve been having a hard time, honestly.”
“I’ve decidedly written and person astatine slightest 12 songs that I bash love,” she continued, “but I don’t cognize if I conscionable don’t consciousness assured with it yet for immoderate reason. And I privation to proceed to support getting amended truthful that I don’t, obviously, don’t privation to spell back. I privation to beryllium capable to beryllium guardant reasoning and springiness myself a full caller lane, and conscionable effort it. So I’ve been experimenting a lot, but it is getting closer. It’s conscionable a spot frustrating… I privation to dance, Zane, truthful atrocious due to the fact that I request to.”
Who Will Feature On Selena Gomez’s New Album?
Selena Gomez performs astatine the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (Shutterstock)
Rare saw appearances by conscionable 6ack (“Crowded Room”) and Kid Cudi (“A Sweeter Place”), and neither opus was released arsenic an authoritative single. Revival only had 1 impermanent appearance, and that was A$AP Rocky with “Good For You.” Stars Dance had nary features, portion Revelación boasted appearances by Rauw Alejandro, Myke Towers, and DJ Snake. Selena whitethorn enactment the people and conscionable person 1 oregon 2 impermanent stars connected this rumored album. But, astatine this point, it’s each speculation.
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If Selena chooses that she has 1 medium near successful her earlier calling it a career, past she tin remainder casual knowing that she has been the soundtrack for millions of fans who person grown up beside her. Those aforesaid fans are presently excited for her caller opus and “SG3,” whenever it arrives.
