Chappell Roan Says Next Album ‘Doesn’t Exist Yet,’ Could Take ‘At Least 5’ Years to Finish

Chappell Roan fans are going to have to be patient while awaiting the star’s sophomore album. The pop star has revealed that it could be several years before she completes a follow-up to 2023’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

While speaking to Vogue in a piece published Monday (Aug. 4), Roan shared that he has no plans to accompany new single “The Subway” with an LP any time soon. “The second project doesn’t exist yet,” she told the publication. “There is no album. There is no collection of songs.”

“It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next,” she continued. “I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out … Even if I was in the studio 12 hours a day, every single day, that does not mean that you would get an album any faster.”

It’s not the first time Roan has touched on the fact that it could be a while before she completes her next full-length, though fans have at times been hopeful that it would come sooner as the Missouri native has released various tracks over the past year. On the first day of August, she dropped long-awaited ballad “The Subway,” which followed March’s Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “The Giver.” And last year, she released “Good Luck, Babe!,” which would become her breakout single.

In July, however, as Roan announced that she would be playing a series of pop-up shows in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, she told fans that she “wanted the chance to do something special before going away to write the next album,” implying that she hadn’t yet started the bulk of the work on a new LP.

Though it sounds like the vocalist is going to take her time making CR2 perfect, it’s hard to imagine how she could top Midwest Princess. Released in September 2023, the album slowly gained traction before reaching its peak at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in August the following year. It also earned Roan her first-ever Grammy, with the star taking home best new artist at February’s awards.

Amid the whirlwind of sudden global fame, Roan has been open about how her mental health has suffered, at one point speaking out against toxic fan behaviors. In her interview with Vogue, however, she said that she’s finally learned how to balance her career with her personal life and well-being — and one important way of doing that has been deleting social media apps off her phone.

That means that whenever her next album does arrive, it won’t be informed by the scrolling world. “I’ve never written an album where I don’t have Instagram or anything,” she told the publication. “The album process is purely, only mine. No one on TikTok gets to see it.”