Oops, Lana Del Rey Waited Too Long to Make Her Country Album
Briefly

Lana Del Rey confirmed a country album titled Stove set for release in January 2026. The album arrives amid a broader wave of country-leaning releases from prominent artists. Del Rey previously announced a country project under working titles such as Lasso and later The Right Person Will Stay, and she released the single "Henry, Come On" before postponing the full release. Producer Jack Antonoff collaborated with Del Rey across Muscle Shoals, Nashville and Mississippi over several years. Del Rey acknowledged that Stove will unintentionally match current trends and considered retiring snakeskin boots and cowboy hats.
Typically, Lana Del Rey bucks trends. But her country album has taken so long, it slots in with some of the biggest releases of the past few years: Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, Post Malone's F-1 Trillion, and everything Morgan Wallen has released. Del Rey finally confirmed that her next album, the country one, will be titled Stove and released in January 2026. And, yes, she's well aware that Stove will be accidentally on trend.
To be fair, Del Rey has taken a while. She first said she was making a country album, then called Lasso, in January 2024, at the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards. "If you can't already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country. We're going country. It's happening," she said at the time. "That's why Jack [Antonoff] has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years."
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