Eleven-time Grammy nominee Lana Del Rey reveals her newest offering to fans will be released on May 21, 2025, titled “The Right Person Will Stay.” The cover of her highly anticipated tenth album was unveiled in an Instagram post alongside an inside scoop mentioning she will be performing songs off the new record at an upcoming Stagecoach performance.
The newly shared project will follow up on her ninth studio album, “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.” Famously named after the abandoned Long Beach tunnel, the album debuted with 115,000 unit sales in its debut week, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. As for accolades, it went on to earn her an Album of the Year nomination at the 66th annual Grammys.
A stacked line-up of new and old music collaborators will be in the crosshairs of the new album, including Bleachers lead vocalist and longtime colleague Jack Antonoff. The musical duo is commonly praised for their work on Lana’s modern classic “NFR!” a highly conceived body of work that Pitchfork ranked as number 1 on their end-of-year album list for 2019. Former visionaries Drew Erickson and Zach Dawes also return for the album, along with a new face in Luke Laird.
Lana had already begun teasing the album in the first quarter of this year, uploading a cryptic video onto her Instagram which embarked the journey of a forty-eight-second snippet of the track “Henry, come on.” Two weeks after this post sent fans ablaze, Lana attended the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards in Los Angeles on January 31, 2024. At the private ceremony, she unofficially announced an entirely different album in the middle of her honorary acceptance speech, titled “Lasso.”
Formerly intending for a release date in September 2024, in the heat of the moment she spilled that the album would’ve been entirely country, “The music business is gone…going…we’re going country! I knew it, I said it, ‘It’s happening!’” It is highly speculated that the musical endeavor she was working on at the time (“Lasso”) has been canceled and reworked into the official album announcement we have today (“The Right Person Will Stay”), but fans still reminisce on what could’ve been.
“Honestly I was really excited about ‘Lasso’ when I first heard about it. I know Lana would have sounded amazing in a country album,” said COMPASS senior Yathai Pina.
Lana is set to headline a sold-out European stadium tour in 2025, stopping at iconic venues such as the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium in London. Despite the fact that the album won’t be in our hands for another five months, it is evident that the right people will stay by the songstress’ side.
