How is the year back to school? Among the highly anticipated returns and the first daring projects, it is likely that album releases of the coming months surprise. From international icons such as Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran with established or emerging French talents such as Florent Pagny, DJ Snake or Marguerite, the outputs promise to be varied and ambitious.
In this first week back to school, BFMTV.com offers you an overview of the discs in the last months of 2025.
• International pop
Sabrina Carpenter, “Man’s best friend” (August 29)
Seventh entertaining album, still as sarcastic … without being impressive. With its controversial coverage, rehabilitating for some the imagination of domestic violence (Sabrina Carpenter throws her hair through a man whose silhouette is only seen, we wanted to be pushed by a subversive observation, which would have contradict the detractors of the cover. Unfortunately, the texts remain anchored in a soft vision of a heteronormed sexuality (wisely) without getting involved (frankly). House Tour AND Never getThe rest of the album gives Airs of Dej vu. However, the twelve titles are pleasant to listen.
Ed Sheeran – “Play” (September 12)
On September 12, 2025, Ed Sheeran returned with PlayYour eighth study album. A bold musical adventure, this album explores the influences around the world, along with the pop of the British artist. A daring mixture found in successful singles Azizam EITHER Sapphire. First part of a thematic registration trilogy, Play It will be accompanied by a European tour, which will significantly go through the CENIT in Paris, on December 1.
Plots – “Amado” (September 12)
Beloved Does the melancholy of a break surf? The Australian quintet, installed in Berlin, returns on September 12 with a third studio album with very pop and cheerful sounds. The compilation is already carried by singles that dance like Yugotmefeeling EITHER Leveyourloveand also other more introspective such as Safandsound. A highly anticipated return of the group, called by the DAFT Punk, with very seventy aesthetics (sound and visual).
Lola Young – “I’m just fucking myself” (September 19)
Revealed by the tube MessyLola Young returns with her third studio album, a project that the 24 -year -old artist describes as an “Ode to Self -Abitation.” Produced with Manuka and Solomonophonic, this album, transported by the single One thingPop, Electro and R&B and adds intimate issues such as Lola Young’s report to drugs or sex.
Mariah Carey – “Here for everything” (September 26)
Usually, faithful to the end of the year celebrations, Mariah Carey anticipated her return with Here for everythingHis first album since 2018, scheduled for September. Composed of 16 titles, welcomes collaborations with Anderson .Paak and The Clark Sisters group. The singer had started this return in June with the single Dangerous typea retro r’n’b that sample Eric B. is president by Eric B. and Rakim.
Zara Larsson – “Midnight Sun” (September 26)
“A Swedish summer where the sun never gets”, this is Zara Larsson’s ambition to Midnight sunHis fifth OPUS study scheduled for September 26, 2025. The Swedish singer is based on his Nordic roots to design this pop project, with the complicity of loyal collaborators such as MNEK, Margo XS and Zhone. Ten titles, including the homonymous single, which will flourish in summer nostalgia.
Taylor Swift – “The life of a showgirl” (October 3)
The life of a showgirl Will he be the opus of all records? For his twelfth study album with extravagant aesthetics, after his monumental Eras tourTaylor Swift returns to its producers in Yesteryar, Max Martin and Shellback, who have signed some of their greatest successes such as We will never be together again. The twelve titles of this pivot album, including one in Duet with Sabrina Carpenter, promise to celebrate, with joy, the life of their artist.
• Rap
Cardi B – “Am I drama?” (September 19)
Seven years after his first album, Privacy invasionNew York rapper signs his return with a new project Am I drama?. Composed of 23 titles, including its tubes WAP AND Above as well as the unique single OutsideThis album is a form of personal rebirth for Cardi B. The artist recounts his intimate struggles (maternity, divorce with compensation, media pressure) and share his dramas with sincerity, mixture of anger, empowerment and self -protection.
Doja Cat – “Life” (September 26)
The name of “life” is not coincidence. For three years, Doja Cat retired to the studies of callos Miraval in France. This emerges fifteen titles with retro tones of the 70s and 80 Scarlet. The single I write Announcement is already the situation, far from the first sounds that could make their reputation.
Lujipeka – “Burn Paris” (October 3)
After two years of absence, Lujipeka returns in force with Burn Paris. Described as “a mental, physical and emotional odyssey”, this album not only speaks of the relationship between rapper and the capital, but a deeper rage, a chaos from which a raw energy goes out to be reborn. To commemorate the occasion, the artist made 20 different pockets of his album, each linked to a city in France, but also in Brussels, Montreal and Meeting Island.
Oxmo Puccino – “The height of the moon” (October 19)
A final album before bringing its reverence. With The height of the moonOxmo Puccino closes more than three decades of rap and poetry and signs the last chapter of a spectacular race. Faithful to his pen, the artist signs an intimate and ambitious farewell album, transported by elevated elevations: singer Vanessa Paradis, Los Raperos de Turie and Josman, as well as Mc Solaar, another emblematic figure of rap in France.
• French song
Marguerite – “Grow” (September 26)
After two successful singles, Girls, girls – Ode to bisexual love where your relationship with masculinity explores – andIt is apples – Melancholy Ballad on romantic ruptures: the singer, revealed during the Star 2024 Academy, continues with her impulse with her first EP producer. In addition to the search for identity, the intensity of emotions and self -acceptance, this project, presented as intimate and personal, is inspired by texts written in adolescence. A first album that Marguerite will be able to defend himself on the tour in November, with two concerts scheduled in Paris, on December 1, 2025 and March 24, 2026.
Vanessa Paradis – “The Return of Sunny Days” (October 10)
The return of sunny days, Seventh album by Vanessa Paradis, evokes everyone else a bit more bleak. This is the case in his simple homonym, with a signed melancholy Ethienne Daho. Seven years later Sources, The 52 -year -old singer, therefore, returns to the music industry and on stage with a March 2026 tour, including a zenith in Paris on May 21.
Florent Pagny – “Life -Tamaño” (September 12)
A key date for Florent Pagny fans. More than three years after announcing having lung cancer, the 63 -year -old artist will reveal his album Carvingnext September 12. First unpublished project of the singer since 2023, this album has imagined in Patagonia and will include in particular “human relations, the search for self, love and social problems.”
• Rock
Mac Demarco – “Guitar” (August 22)
Since 2012, Mac Demarco has been progressing in Bas-Bruit, with its sweet ballads and wave than Elemora throughout his songs. As in his sixth study album, Guitar. After the gigantic project One Wayne G. (2023) – And its 199 titles! – Minimalism is priority here: twelve songs, a guitar, a bass, a drum. And his voice that cares and touches the heart. In thirty minutes, Montreal’s musician tells him the loneliness of tender beings, nostalgia for childhood and disappointed love. One of the most noted artists in independent rock, whose title Heart by heart Exploited in Tiktok: signs a pure popular compilation that, he says, “is closer to this (he is) today, or at least that (he has managed to put on paper.”
• Electro
DJ Snake – “Nomad” (September 26)
Announced during his concert at the Stade de France compared to 80,000 spectators, Nomadic It is the third DJ Snake studio album and its first project from White letterFive years ago, which made it known throughout the world. Individual Paradise In duet with bipolar sun, – remix of Another day in paradise from Phil Collins -, Something wrong With Don Toliver and Ninety With J Balvin, Nomadic Explore new sounds and mark a turning point in your career as DJ Snake.
• Country
King’s wool – “Stove” (January 2026)
Will it really be called? Kitchen (kitchen)? King’s wool wanted to baptize his tenth country of Opus Ribbon So The right person will stay Before changing (still) by name and changing its launch from September 2025 to January 2026. The singer justifies this new postponement by adding six additional titles, which describes as “more autobiographical than expected.” Your title The stars fell on Alabama She is remarkably inspired by her husband Jeremy Dufrenne, “the most striking person of his life.”
Source: BFM TV
