Morgan Wallen's New Album 2025: Everything We Know So Far

With the surprise arrival of ‘Smile’ on New Year's Eve and an accompanying music video that we suspect contains a few hints and cryptic clues, it feels like an official announcement about Morgan Wallen's highly anticipated fourth studio album is imminent.

Wallen continues to tease that he's hard at work on his next record, sharing a photo from what appears to be a recording session in mid-January with the caption, ‘Locked in’.

Alongside ’Smile’, Morgan Wallen's new project is expected to feature the already-released singles, ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ and ‘Love Somebody’, in addition to previously teased fan-favourites, ‘I Guess’, ’Redneck’ and - most recently - ‘Since You Got Gone’.

‘Redneck’ was mysteriously deleted from Wallen's Instagram page in recent weeks, leaving followers concerned he might no longer be planning on releasing the song as part of his next album. However, the Sneedville megastar did the same with a few social media snippets ahead of his previous record, One Thing At A Time, so it seems there's still hope for this track, which finds the ‘Thought You Should Know’ crooner hoping that a sleek, city-based man he meets in traffic will be reborn in the sticks, so he can learn to appreciate the beauty of rural living.

Expectations are high following the chart-dominating and record-breaking success of his 2023 project, One Thing At A Time, which was Spotify's most-streamed album of the year.

Details are being kept under wraps, but as we put forward in our prediction piece at the start of 2025, we have a theory that Morgan Wallen is planning to drop his new album on April 4th, 2025 - and that the project may be called Dark Til Daylight.

We feel pretty confident that 2025 is the year we get a new album from Morgan Wallen, with the ‘Last Night’ chart-topper tending to space each record apart by around two years.

While this is a little longer than some artists, Wallen more than makes up for it with his lengthy tracklists, and we're hoping we have another 30+ songs to look forward to this year.

2023's One Thing At A Time arrived on March 3rd - or rather, 3/3 - with a lot of the branding around the rollout billing the project as ‘March 3, Wallen 3’. The ‘Everything I Love’ hitmaker has a penchant for releasing new music on special dates, with ‘Smile’ dropping on New Year's Eve, the spiritually-themed ’Don't Think Jesus’ coming out around Easter and his sweet ode to his mom, ’Thought You Should Know’, being made available on Mother's Day. Therefore, we reckon Morgan Wallen might be plotting to release his fourth album on April 4th - 4/4 - this year.

What's more, this would be timed relatively well for his inaugural Sand in My Boots Festival 2025, which is lined up for mid-May, giving Wallen a slew of brand new tracks to debut during his momentous headline set at the Gulf Shores extravaganza.

As for our predicted album-title, Dark Til Daylight, this comes from what we think are a few thinly veiled clues in the ‘Smile’ music video, which features Morgan Wallen performing on a fictional talk-show, hosted by Caleb Pressley, called ’Dark Til Daylight’.

We did some sleuthing on the ASCAP repertory, which contains all songs that have been registered - even if they're not out yet - and lo and behold, there is a track named ‘Dark Til Daylight’. It doesn't have an assigned performer just yet, which suggests it is indeed unreleased, but it's been penned by two of Morgan Wallen's go-to collaborators, Rocky Block, who co-write ‘Smile’, and Chris Tompkins, who worked on ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, along with prolific country songsmith, Jimmy Robbins.

As a result, we suspect ‘Dark Til Daylight’ could be the title-track from Morgan Wallen's forthcoming record. Given the duality of this name, and the contrast between the grayscale artwork for ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ and ‘Smile’ and the dawn-themed cover for ‘Love Somebody’, we're wondering if it might be another double-album in the mould of Dangerous. Perhaps one half of the project is more introspective and heartbroken, with the second portion being filled with more upbeat offerings.

Of course, this is conjecture at this point, and we'll have to wait until Morgan Wallen delivers his official announcement before we know for sure what his next body of work entails.

There have been some other rumours, such as potential features on Wallen's next project. In early 2023, fans began speculating that Morgan Wallen has a duet with Lainey Wilson up his sleeve, after Morgan wrote ‘I guess Country's Cool Now’ on his Instagram stories. Many eagle-eyed followers have taken that to be a reference to Lainey's own song, ‘Country's Cool Again’, and her 2024 tour of the same name.

During Morgan's Kansas City tour-stop in August 2024, he brought out Lainey for a spellbinding duet of ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, again fuelling suspicions they have a collaboration on the way.

Similarly, in September 2023, Morgan was stoking the flames of speculation regarding new music, when the ‘You Proof’ singer-songwriter captioned an Instagram post with what looks like a set of lyrics from an unreleased song, “You thought the grass was greener, now you’re in the weeds / You always were your own worst enemy”.

One thing is for sure, Morgan Wallen has more eyes and ears focussed on him than ever before. Following the colossal all-genre success of ‘Last Night’, ‘I Had Some Help’ with Post Malone and latterly ‘Love Somebody’, a blockbuster world tour and link-ups with the likes of Drake, Lil Durk and Moneybagg Yo, this is shaping up to be the album that officially cements Wallen's status as a modern-day crossover titan.

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