Charli xcx is heading back into the studio, and her team has officially confirmed that she is in the final stages of finishing her eighth studio album. Say what you want about downtime, but Charli clearly has a different definition of “break”.

The update arrived via a statement given to Billboard, where her representatives noted that she “is currently in Kyoto filming a movie and finishing her forthcoming new studio album”, slipping the news into a wider explanation of her recent workload and long history as a songwriter.

My face when I found out Charli was making another album. (Image: The Moment )

The album will be her eighth, coming hot off the back of 2024’s Brat, a record that stopped being just an album and became a full cultural event, spawning memes, discourse and eventually the mockumentaryThe Moment. In the time since, she’s also scored Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, and released a companion album to go with it, because apparently one high‑concept project at a time is simply not the Charli way.

Fans have clocked the pace, and they’re both impressed and mildly alarmed. On Reddit, one wrote, “When does this girl sleep?,” while another added, “She just put one out!??! Someone tell her to sit DOWN”.

AND SUDDENLY THE WORLD IS HEALING AGAIN

— gabi (@manwithluger) April 6, 2026

the way thought this was fake and IT WAS REAL 😭😭😭

— 🥸 (@pailanderelinm) April 4, 2026

Charli herself has been candid about how draining the Brat moment was, saying she was “currently feeling more inspired by film than by music” after being left “stuck, empty and barren” in its wake. Last year she also shrugged that “you can never really do the same thing twice and my next record will probably be a flop, which I’m down for to be honest”, while her collaborators A.G. Cook, Finn Keane and husband, George Daniel, described the follow‑up as “anti‑Brat” and “completely the opposite” of what they’d just made together in a Grammys interview from last year February.

This team behind my entire 2025 personality. (Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

All of this is unfolding against the backdrop of fresh tension around the Wuthering Heights project. Sky Ferreira recently appeared in a fan’s Instagram comments after they resurfaced her 2012 video “Everything Is Embarrassing”, claiming that a favourite artist “records my old songs” and saying she has “proof of everything”, which many took as a pointed reference to the soundtrack.

In response, Charli’s team issued a detailed statement to Billboard emphasising that she has made multiple albums and written “countless songs” for others, and that she “always shares credits fairly and appropriately, and values her collaborators tremendously”. They said that, ahead of the Wuthering Heights album release, “a standard review process was conducted” on a small number of tracks, involving managers, lawyers, artists and producers, and that “all relevant parties were consulted throughout” before credits and splits were agreed in writing.

Charli hasn’t publicly responded to Ferreira beyond that statement from her team, and there’s still no release date or title attached to the new record. What is clear, though, is that Charli remains firmly booked and busy, and whatever this eighth album sounds like, hopefully it arrives with less accusations and more bangers!