Charli XCX has set July 24 for the release of her next album, Music, Fashion, Film, making clear the follow-up to Brat is now on the calendar. The record will be her seventh studio album, and it arrives with 11 songs packed into just 30 minutes and five seconds.
The announcement, made on Instagram on Monday, is the kind of update fans have been waiting for since Brat turned her into a far bigger pop figure than before. It also answers the most basic question around the new project: when it lands, and how much of it there will be.
Music, Fashion, Film will include the previously released tracks SS26 and Rock Music, giving the album a couple of anchors before the full track list is heard in sequence. The cover artwork was shot by Aidan Zamiri, who also directed A24’s The Moment, in which Charli starred.
That pairing matters because Charli is no longer treating music and film as separate lanes. In February, she said at the Berlin Film Festival that she wanted to keep moving across both as her career progresses, and in 2026 she has already scored Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights movie, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. She has also said Brat brought her the widest audience she had ever reached, while noting that some parts of that experience were difficult for her as an artist.
The new album cover pushes that crossover even further. John Cale, Marc Jacobs and Martin Scorsese appear on it, a mix of names that matches the record’s title and Charli’s current orbit around pop, fashion and film. What remains unanswered is what the 11 songs will sound like, but the release date is fixed: Music, Fashion, Film is due at the end of July.
