Tyla Announces ‘A-Pop’ Album After Grammy Win
South African superstar Tyla announced her sophomore album A-Pop right after winning her second Grammy. She revealed the news at the 68th Grammy Awards on February 1, 2026, moments after taking Best African Music Performance for “Push 2 Start.” This is her second straight win in the category, following her 2024 breakthrough with “Water,” which made her the youngest African artist to win a Grammy.
Backstage, Tyla called A-Pop her most mature and honest project yet. It follows her 2024 self-titled debut and is due this summer. She wrote the first album at 21–22 during a rapid rise to fame. Now 24, she says she has grown into the woman she sings about. “I feel like a woman,” she told Rolling Stone. “I’ve been through stuff. It’s going to be very different. It’s a new Tyla, or really just me now.”
The album will feature bolder production and deeper storytelling, expanding her signature pop, R&B, and Amapiano blend. Tyla started it last year, noting the debut felt rushed amid sudden success while this one grew naturally from lived experiences. Song snippets and an in-progress A-Pop tracklist, which she shared online, already have fans buzzing.
She updated her profiles to officially launch the A-Pop era, and her hit “Chanel” shows no signs of slowing down. It’s held No. 1 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for over 10 weeks, reached No. 43 on the Hot 100 (the only African track charting there in 2026), surpassed 237 million Spotify streams by early February, and gathered more than 84 million YouTube views.
A-Pop arrives as Tyla steps into a more mature era. With two Grammys secured, she’s claiming the global stage on her own terms, still proudly South African and completely her own.
