New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter
Conan Gray surprises fans with the announcement of new album, Wishbone, arriving August 15 via Republic Records. In addition to unveiling the forthcoming album title, track listing, and artwork, Conan reveals the first single "
This Song" will arrive on Friday, May 30.
Conan Gray comments on the surprise announcement, "Over the past two years, I've been secretly writing songs. After shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours - I'd come back home and write all the things I felt nobody wanted to hear. Maybe even the things I didn't want people to hear."
"It felt like the music was reminding me who I am, at an experimental time in my twenties where "who i am" had no definition at all." Conan continues, "I played the songs to the very first person I'd ever made music with, Dan Nigro, and I quietly began to record. I didn't know why I was recording, I just was. I didn't know what story I was telling, I was just living in it. Slowly I started to see myself in full picture. The slivers of myself I'd always been, but never faced. The songs I'd always been writing, but never singing. Before I knew it I was surrounded by an album. That album is Wishbone."
Much like his first two albums, Conan wrote all the songs on Wishbone from his bedroom, and has reunited with Grammy Award winning longtime collaborator Dan Nigro as executive producer. Nigro previously produced Conan's debut EP Sunset Season in 2018, as well as Gray's first two albums, Kid Krow (2020) and Superache (2022). In addition, Conan worked with Ethan Gruska (Phoebe Bridgers), Noah Conrad, Luka Kloser and Elvira as producers on Wishbone.
On Wishbone,
Conan Gray returns to his singer-songwriter roots after falling in love for the first time.
Wishbone Tracklisting:
1. Actor
2. This Song
3. Vodka Cranberry
4. Romeo
5. My World
6. Class Clown
7. Nauseous
8. Caramel
9. Connell
10. Sunset Tower
11. Eleven Eleven
12. Care
Nobody has tapped into the thoughts and feelings of this era quite like
Conan Gray has. The
Texas native has transformed into the Gen Z singer-songwriter by never losing sight of where he came from, still writing songs in his bedroom, hand-drawing his art, and designing a world without comparison. 2020 saw him leave an indelible imprint on popular culture with his full-length debut LP, Kid Krow. Produced by longtime collaborator and GRAMMY® Award winner Dan Nigro, it bowed at #5 on the Billboard 200, went Platinum, and yielded a series of signature smashes, including the 4x-Platinum "Heather," 3x-Platinum "Maniac," and Gold-Certified "Comfort Crowd," "The Story," "Wish You Were Sober," and "The Cut That Always Bleeds." Among these staples, he entered rarified air with "Heather," becoming "one of a handful of songs with 2 billion streams penned by one writer (Conan)." With 12 billion total streams to date, Conan returned to the top of the charts with Superache [2022] and Found Heaven[2024]. Moreover, he has incited the applause of The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vogue, GQ, V Man, PAPER, The FADER, Billboard, and NPR in addition to performing on The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, TODAY, and more. He has taken flight as an arena headliner, selling out hallowed venues such as Madison
Square Garden. A fixture at events like the Met Gala, Conan's just as uncompromisingly influential as a style icon, embracing a fashion-forward aesthetic like no other. Beyond thriving as a songwriter, he serves as the core creative director, shaping every layer of his vision down to creating cover art and co-directing music videos. He turns the page on his next chapter in 2025 with his fourth full-length album, Wishbone [Republic Records], beginning with the single "This Song."
