When Will Morgan Wallen Release His New Album? Here's Our Prediction

Although Morgan Wallen spent much of 2024 teasing us with unreleased song snippets, it nonetheless felt like the surprise release of ‘Smile’ on New Year's Eve was the launch of his album rollout, with Wallen due to drop the keenly awaited project in 2025.

There's no release date as of yet, but the Sneedville megastar continues to share updates from the studio, such as his tantalising post earlier in the week underlining he's ‘Locked in’.

Now, while the details surrounding Morgan Wallen's One Thing At A Time follow-up album are being kept under wraps, Wallen usually loves to offer fans a few easter eggs or cryptic clues in the lead-up to dropping new records. In his ‘Smile’ music video, for instance, we suspect the name of the fictional talk-show hosted by Caleb Pressley, Dark Til Daylight, may be the title of the forthcoming project. There is an unreleased song called ‘Dark Til Daylight’ registered on the ASCAP repertory, penned by a trio of leading country writers, including Rocky Block, who co-wrote ‘Smile’, and Chris Tompkins, one of the ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ songsmiths.

However, as these potential details come into focus, there remains the question of when we can expect Morgan Wallen to release his new album. We've been doing some sleuthing online, and we have a release date theory - one shared by a few fellow fans.

Our prediction is that the ‘Love Somebody’ singer-songwriter will release his next album on Friday, April 4th. Firstly, Morgan Wallen always drops his records in the first half of the year, with If I Know Me arriving in April 2018, Dangerous in January 2021 and One Thing At A Time in March 2023. What's more, Wallen will surely drop his new project before his inaugural Sand in My Boots Festival in mid-May, with the ‘Last Night’ chart-topper most likely wanting to use this to perform an arsenal of newly release tracks for the first time, and kick off his next touring era.

But the most convincing argument for an April 4th 2025 release date is the fact that Morgan Wallen dropped his previous album, One Thing At A Time, on March 3rd, 2023.

Now, this was Wallen’s third album, and it’s no accident he chose 3/3 as the release date, with a lot of the promotional messaging around the project billing it as ‘Wallen 3 March 3’.

Morgan Wallen’s next album will be his fourth - and, conveniently, 4/4 this year falls on a Friday, the typical release day for new music. Furthermore, April 4th - as one particular fanpage, In Our Morgan Wallen Era, highlighted - will be roughly two years after the release of One Thing At A Time. Each new Wallen project is spaced out by a couple of years, with the slightly longer waiting period offset by the fact that, of late, he has a reputation for gifting us at least 30 songs per album.

The new project, which we believe will be called Dark Til Daylight, is set to include the already-released singles, ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, ‘Love Somebody’ and ’Smile’, along with previously teased tracks such as ‘Since You Got Gone’, ‘I Guess’ and ‘Redneck’.

The Instagram snippet of the latter has mysteriously disappeared from Morgan Wallen’s Instagram page, but we’re holding out hope it nonetheless finds a way onto the tracklist.

‘Spin You Around (1/24)’ was a re-release, and we therefore imagine it won’t be included on the new project, while another fan-favourite that continues to make the rounds on TikTok, ‘Always Have, Always Will’, is a very early demo that has probably been cast aside for now, due to being inspired by a different period in Wallen’s life.

With the potential title Dark Til Daylight, we wonder if Morgan Wallen’s new project will be a double-album in the style of Dangerous. One side could find Wallen exploring a more introspective, forlorn ambience, epitomised by ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ and ‘Smile’, while the second half could be more upbeat and feature songs with a similarly breezy, summery atmosphere to ‘Love Somebody’. The vibrant, dawn-inspired artwork for the latter contrasts with the greyscale, colour-drained images used for ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ and ‘Smile’, possibly hinting at the album's duality.

Of course, this is all just conjecture at this point, and we’ll have to wait for an official announcement before we know for sure what Morgan Wallen has up his sleeves for Album No. 4.

But whatever it is - and whenever it drops - judging by the singles he has released so far, we have no doubt it’ll be another top-tier, game-changing body of work, which will cement Wallen's status as one of the biggest artists in the modern landscape.

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