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Grammy-winning superstar, Tyla, has made a grand return with her highly anticipated sophomore studio album titled A-POP.
In the last two years, Tyla’s hitmaking and charisma has helped her become one of the most dominant global music stars.
The 14-track album, which has been teased and coveted for well over a calendar year, boasts the bonafide hits Chanel, Is It, She Did It Again, and Is It Love.
To commemorate the release of the landmark project, Tyla headlined The Today Show’s Citi Summerstage on Friday July 24 in New York City, and flew to Chicago the following day to headline the AT&T WNBA All-Star Game halftime show.
She will be the first international artiste to headline the WNBA halftime show in its 28-year history. The appearances cap off a global rollout that has brought A-POP directly to fans around the world.
In the lead-up to release, Tyla hosted a series of intimate fan listening experiences with YouTube in London, Atlanta and New York, giving fans an exclusive first listen to the album alongside the musician herself. She also teamed up with Vevo for the Official Live Performance of Is It Love, with more performances from the series set to roll out soon. Beyond music, Tyla also unveiled her Bratz doll, marking another major cultural moment for the global superstar.
Tyla formally announced the album tracklist on Instagram, where she etched each song of the 14-tracker in neon paint during an immersive reveal. It was the latest feather in the cap of what’s been a calculated and explosive rollout that began with the subtle announcement of the album’s title in the video for Chanel, which has now been viewed over 140 million times.
Though, the ripple effect of her groundbreaking debut album campaign was still creating waves throughout the industry, Tyla took home her second Grammy Award for Push 2 Start, earlier this year.
The act began formally teasing A-POP on this year’s Grammy red carpet, where she revealed to Rolling Stone that her efforts had started to galvanize.
“I just knew that as I lived through the making of the album, it was going to fall into place, which it did,” she told the outlet after accepting her second award for Best African Music Performance.
With the momentum of 2025’s release of Chanel still white-hot, Tyla tapped Zara Larsson for She Did It Again. The single release became a global event, debuting on over seven international charts, earning Tyla her fourth Hot 100 chart hit and becoming a culturally captivating social moment, with hundreds-of-thousands of TikTok creates dedicated to emulating the vivacious energy Tyla and Zara conjured. Vanity Fair said the duo created “herstory” with the record.
As her next act, Tyla liberated the album’s next single, Is It Love, a painstaking romantic ballad that shot to the top of the Billboard US Afrobeats chart, earning the singer her fourth Afrobeats chart-topper, more than any artiste since 2024.
As curiosity for A-POP grew, so did Tyla’s aura. Her third year at the MET Gala was met with widespread enthuse.
Following her scene-stealing appearances at the 2024 and 2025 ceremonies, where she donned a nude Balmain dress that prompted VOGUE to call her a “fashion force,” and a Barbie-inspired vintage Jacquemus gown that stole global headlines respectively, Tyla reprised her role as star of the carpet with a peacock-inspired Valentino dress referred to as “bold” by Cosmopolitan – a common theme in Tyla’s career.
She would also perform several high-profile international engagements, including Portugal’s Afro Nation Festival and Romania’s Beach Please!
Tyla’s debut album campaign, which produced the standard and deluxe edition albums Tyla and Tyla+, launched a two-year period of dominance. Her ability to elevate as an artiste and celebrity while maintaining an intimate relationship with her avid fanbase of “Tygers” is a dynamic unique to superstars of Tyla’s ilk. With A-POP, she’s out to prove that she is here to stay.
