Charli xcx has teased that her upcoming album Music, Fashion, Film will include just one guest collaboration.
The record, which follows her 2024 release Brat, is due out on July 24. According to Charli, fans have virtually no chance of figuring out the identity of the album's only featured artist.
During an appearance on the French television programme Quotidien, she said: “There is one collaboration.
“I’m not telling you, but you won’t be able to guess."
Charli, who chose to feature John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese on the album cover as tributes to her personal heroes across music, fashion, and film, insisted the mystery collaborator is impossible to predict.
She added: “I’d bet money on you not guessing. You can try!
“You could have 1000 chances and you still wouldn’t guess."
Fans have already been given a preview of the album through the singles Rock Music, which sparked mixed reactions, and SS26.
The next release from the project, Wink Wink, is scheduled to arrive on Friday (26.06.26).
Earlier this week, Charli and Madonna appeared to put rumours of a feud to rest after spending hours together at an event in Paris.
After the 33 year old singer declared in Rock Music that "the dance floor is dead," Madonna, who is preparing to release her upcoming dance album Confessions II, shared a series of disco inspired photos on Instagram. Many fans interpreted the caption as a response to Charli.
She wrote: “If your Dance Floor feels dead Maybe you’re playing the wrong music (sic)."
The speculation quickly faded when the pair were seen sitting together, smoking cigarettes, and embracing during the Saint Laurent menswear spring summer 2027 fashion show on Tuesday (23.06.26).
Later that evening, they were spotted dancing behind the DJ booth at the after party as Madonna's songs Thief of Hearts and Hung Up played.
The outing followed Charli's recent comments explaining that she does not actually believe "the dance floor is dead."
She explained that the lyric was intended to reflect her personal relationship with Brat, adding that she absolutely believes dance music is thriving, particularly because her husband, George Daniel, runs a dance music label.
Speaking in a cover interview with Rolling Stone, she said: “That lyric is very much about my relationship with Brat, and my personal experience with that album.
“My husband runs a dance-music label. There’s been such a wealth of incredible dance/electronic-adjacent records that have been coming out recently, whether it’s Slayyyter or Underscores or PinkPantheress. Dance music is in an incredible place.”
Although some listeners assumed the title Rock Music meant she was moving into rock, Charli said that was never her intention and explained that she does not see music through strict genre labels.
Charli said: “Obviously, I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said.
“But to be honest, I’ve never thought about genre in a binary way. I find that to be a very old-school notion. I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing.”
