{"id":413119,"date":"2026-04-23T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:07:10","slug":"tyla-announces-sophomore-album-apop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413119\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyla Announces Sophomore Album, &#8216;APOP&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel like I just did something really fresh and so Tyla,&#8221; the star previously teased to Rolling Stone<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tyla\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tyla\" data-tag=\"tyla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyla<\/a> has unveiled the release date of her highly anticipated sophomore album: A*Pop is set to arrive July 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe star teased the announcement with an album trailer on Wednesday, which showcases her upcoming LP as \u201cAfrican,\u201d \u201cUnapologetic,\u201d \u201cConfident,\u201d and \u201cGlobal.\u201d The follow-up to her self-tiled debut arrives after the release of her hit single \u201cChanel\u201d and Y2K-fueled collaboration \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tyla-zara-larsson-britney-she-did-it-again-song-video-1235548735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She Did It Again<\/a>\u201d with Zara Larsson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn February, Tyla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tyla-2026-grammys-new-album-a-pop-interview-1235509957\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed to Rolling Stone <\/a>that her second album was on the way. Discussing the LP, Tyla said, \u201cI feel like the first album, it was very hectic, it was a rush. It was like, all of a sudden, overnight craziness. So now that I\u2019m settled in, I feel like I know more about my direction and what I want to do, what I want to say.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe added, \u201cI just knew that as I lived through the making of the album, it was going to fall into place, which it did. I feel like I just did something really fresh and so Tyla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 2024, Tyla won her first Grammy with the inaugural Best African Music Performance award for her breakthrough track,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-songs-of-the-21st-century-1235410452\/tyla-water-3-1235412281\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Water<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Last year, she took home her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tyla-2026-grammys-new-album-a-pop-interview-1235509957\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second Grammy for Best African Music Performance\u00a0<\/a>with \u201cPush 2 Start\u201d \u2014 the hit song found on the deluxe edition of her debut LP,\u00a0Tyla+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTyla has also garnered four nominations at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/2026-ama-awards-nominations-1235546448\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Music Awards<\/a> in May including Best Female R&amp;B Artist, Best Afrobeats Artist, and \u2014 for her hit \u201cChanel\u201d \u2014 Social Song of the Year and Best Music Video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I feel like I just did something really fresh and so Tyla,&#8221; the star previously teased to Rolling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[14771,93,61,60,278,10711],"class_list":{"0":"post-413119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-album-announcement","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-tyla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}