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MULTI-PLATINUM 2X GRAMMY-WINNING GLOBAL SUPERSTAR TYLA MAKES HER GRAND RETURN SOPHOMORE STUDIO ALBUM A*POP THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO THE HISTORIC TYLA AVAILABLE NOW

July 27, 2026

TYLA’s globe-stopping debut campaign laid the groundwork for an international pop career that altered the history books. With A*POP, she’s set to halt the earth on its axis once again.

 

(Los Angeles, CA — July 24) A*POP, the highly-anticipated second studio album from TYLA, whose hitmaking and charisma helped her become one of the most dominant global superstars in all of music in the last two years, has arrived. The 14-track album, which has been teased and coveted for well over a calendar year, and sports the bonafide hits “CHANEL,” “IS IT,” “SHE DID IT AGAIN,” and “IS IT LOVE,” is available now. Stream it HERE.

 

To commemorate the release of the landmark project, TYLA will headline The Today Show’s Citi Summerstage® Friday July 24th in New York City, and will fly to Chicago to headline the 2026 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game halftime show on Saturday June 25th. She will be the first international artist to headline the WNBA halftime show in its 28-year history. The appearances cap off a global rollout that has brought A*POP directly to fans around the world. In the lead-up to release, TYLA hosted a series of intimate fan listening experiences with YouTube in London, Atlanta and New York, giving fans an exclusive first listen to the album alongside TYLA herself. She also teamed up with Vevo for the Official Live Performance of “IS IT LOVE” released this week, with more performances from the series set to roll out soon. Watch her performanceHERE. Beyond music, TYLA also unveiled her very own Bratz doll this week, marking another major cultural moment for the global superstar.

 

 

The TYLA takeover has begun. Stream A*POP today.

 

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TYLA formally announced the album tracklist last week on Instagram, where she etched each song of her 14-song tracklist in neon paint during an immersive reveal. It was the latest feather in the cap of what’s been a calculated and explosive rollout that began with the subtle announcement of the album’s title in the video for “CHANEL,” which has now been viewed over 140 million times.

 

Though the ripple effect of her groundbreaking debut album campaign was still creating waves throughout the industry—TYLA took home her second GRAMMY Award, for “PUSH 2 START,” earlier this year—TYLA began formally teasing A*POP on this year’s GRAMMY red carpet, where she revealed to Rolling Stone that her efforts had started to galvanize. “I just knew that as I lived through the making of the album, it was going to fall into place, which it did,” she told the outlet after accepting her second award for “Best African Music Performance.”

 

With the momentum of 2025’s release of “Chanel” still white-hot, TYLA tapped Zara Larsson for “She Did It Again.” The single release became a global event, debuting on over seven global charts, earning TYLA her fourth Hot 100 chart hit and becoming a culturally captivating social moment, with hundreds-of-thousands of TikTok creates dedicated to emulating the vivacious energy TYLA and Zara conjured. Vanity Fair said the duo created “herstory” with the record. As her next act, TYLA liberated the album’s next single, “Is It Love,” a painstaking romantic ballad that shot to the top of the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats chart, earning TYLA her fourth Afrobeats chart-topper, more than any artist since 2024.

 

As curiosity for A*POP grew, so did TYLA’s aura. Her third year at the MET Gala was met with widespread enthuse. Following her scene-stealing appearances at the 2024 and 2025 ceremonies, where she donned a nude Balmain dress that prompted VOGUE to call her a “fashion force,” and a Barbie-inspired vintage Jacquemus gown that stole global headlines respectively, TYLA reprised her role as star of the carpet with a peacock-inspired Valentino dress referred to as “bold” by Cosmopolitan—a common theme in TYLA’s career. She would also perform several high-profile international engagements, including Portugal’s Afro Nation Festival and Romania’s Beach Please!. 

 

TYLA’s debut album campaign, which produced the standard and deluxe edition albums TYLA and TYLA+, launched a two-year period of dominance. Her ability to elevate as an artist and celebrity while maintaining an intimate relationship with her avid fanbase of “Tygers,” is a dynamic unique to superstars of TYLA’s ilk. WithA*POP, she’s set out to prove that she is here to stay.

 

Stream A*POP today.

 

 

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About Tyla

 

In an era where niche culture has taken priority over monoculture, two-time GRAMMY® winner TYLA has ascended to true and unequivocal global superstar status. With A*POP, asserted and fully aware of her presence in pop music, she presents a project that refuses containment or dismissal. It’s confrontational, candid but fun, and spills authenticity rooted in where she’s from: a country that has always spoken in more than one musical language. Through this language, she reveals her range not just as an African artist, but as a global pop star with an entire world behind her.

 

TYLA’s journey got off to a historic beginning in 2024, when she won her first GRAMMY® Award, and made Billboard chart history with the three-time RIAA®Platinum smash hit “WATER,” and the release of her seminal debut albums, TYLA and TYLA+. The set produced another Hot 100 and GRAMMY®-winning hit, “PUSH 2 START,” and sent seven songs to the U.S. Afrobeats chart, including two no. 1s. The campaign made TYLA the highest-charting African female soloist on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. With her highly-anticipated second go-round, A*POP, TYLA picked up where she left off. “CHANEL,” the album’s lead single, was an immediate pop sensation. It topped the U.S. Afrobeats chart and earned over 150 million video views, while TYLA’s follow-up effort, the Zara Larsson-assisted, Britney Spears-inspired “SHE DID IT AGAIN,” became a disruptive cultural moment, and amplified TYLA’s commitment to the pop star realm. “IS IT LOVE?,” the album’s third single, earned TYLA her record fourth no. 1 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats chart. A*POP is available now.

Source: Sony Music

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