Tyla's second album 'A*POP' arrives July 24 via FAX and Epic

Tyla has a release date, a tracklist, and three singles already in the wild. A*POP, her second album, comes out July 24 through FAX and Epic. It is the first full-length she has put out since her self-titled debut in 2024, the record that turned "Water" into a global hit and won the first Grammy ever handed out for Best African Music Performance.

She kept that trophy in the family. In February she won the same category again, this time for "Push 2 Start," which makes her the only artist to take it twice. So the new album arrives with the South African singer holding a title no one else has, and with a clear question hanging over it: what does Tyla sound like when she is no longer the breakout and has to follow herself.

Popiano, still

Tyla calls her sound "popiano," her shorthand for amapiano's log-drum bounce and rolling percussion pushed through radio pop and R&B. On the debut it was the whole hook. "Water" worked because the beat kept sliding out from under the melody, the amapiano skip doing the thing a straight four-on-the-floor could not.

The singles from A*POP suggest she is not abandoning that, but she is stretching it. "Chanel," the lead single from last October, is the most amapiano-forward of the three, all breathy top line over a beat that never quite lands where you expect. It reached number 15 in the UK and number 43 on the Hot 100. "She Did It Again," out in April with Zara Larsson, pulls the other way, a glossy, deliberately Y2K pop record that both singers have compared to peak Britney. It hit number two in Sweden, Larsson's home chart, and number 59 on the Hot 100. June's "Is It Love" sits between the two.

Three singles, three different dials turned. That is either range or indecision, and the album is where we find out which.

A longer runway

Tyla has been open that the debut came together fast, under the weight of "Water" blowing up mid-cycle. This one she took her time on. In an August interview with Variety she said she had "more time to work on this album than I did the first, so I have a lot of songs," and described herself as "living what I'm singing," which she framed as more personal than the debut. Sessions ran through 2025 into 2026, mostly in Los Angeles and Barcelona, with producers including Ian Kirkpatrick and P2J on the boards.

Between the two albums she dropped the four-track EP WWP last July, which she called a "bridge to the new album," material she "needed to let out" first. A*POP folds in "Is It" from that EP, so the bridge and the album are connected on purpose.

She announced the title from the red carpet at the Grammys in February and locked the July 24 date in April, with a 14-track version up for pre-order on her site. Fourteen tracks, one confirmed feature so far in Larsson, and a sound she keeps insisting has grown up with her. "I feel like a woman. I'm 24," she told Rolling Stone, which is the kind of line that means nothing until the songs back it up.

What to listen for

The debut proved Tyla could land a single. The open question is whether she can hold an album, whether a full 14 tracks of popiano keeps its footing or starts repeating the trick. The singles are promising precisely because they do not sound like each other. If A*POP threads the amapiano roots of "Chanel" through the pop sheen of "She Did It Again" without picking one and dropping the other, it is a real step. If it just alternates between the two modes, it is a good playlist and a thinner album. July 24 settles it.