Newman's Revolve steps forward at last

Pre-orders unlock Lights Down at once. Greg Kurstin and Jack Splash handle production, Charlie Wilson is among the guests, and a firm street date is still to come.

John Newman has announced Revolve, his second studio album and the follow-up to 2013’s Tribute. The news arrived on or around 24 September 2026, hard on the heels of the single Come And Get It. Pre-orders carry an instant track, Lights Down, so a first cut from the new album is already available.

The record brings in production from Greg Kurstin and Jack Splash, with contributions from Charlie Wilson and brass-section players associated with Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The album has been presented as classic and timeless. A firm release date has not yet been set.

A career built on big choruses

Newman’s path into the charts was already clear before Tribute landed. He co-wrote and sang on Rudimental’s Feel the Love, a UK number one in 2012, and on their follow-up Not Giving In, which reached number 14. Love Me Again, released under his own name, topped the UK Singles Chart in July 2013 and travelled further still through its use on FIFA 14. Tribute, the debut album that same year, fixed the template: soul energy, pop structure, and a voice that could cut through a festival PA as cleanly as a club system.

The following year he featured on Calvin Harris’s Blame, another UK number one, underlining how readily his writing and vocal presence travelled across dance and pop radio. Newman has long worked as a singer, songwriter, musician, DJ, composer and producer, not only as a featured voice. In the years after Tribute he kept releasing singles rather than a second full-length — Holy Love and Waiting For A Lifetime in 2022, Call Your Name, Guiding Light and Hold On To My Love in 2023, and a revisited Love Me Again in 2026 — so Revolve closes a long gap between albums even as it continues a run of work that never fully stopped.

From Hyde Park to the next dates

Live work has remained part of the picture. Newman performed at Taylor Swift’s Hyde Park show and at the closing ceremony of the European Games, stages some distance from the rooms where those early singles first took hold. His official website lists forthcoming dates, keeping the touring thread open while the album campaign takes shape.

What the production credits suggest is continuity rather than reinvention. Kurstin’s catalogue is heavy with durable, radio-sharp pop; Splash brings deeper R&B and soul grain. Charlie Wilson’s guest role points the same way. The Thriller-linked brass is a specific studio lineage, not a slogan — a reminder of how much of Newman’s appeal has always rested on arrangement and punch as much as on the lead vocal. Working with those names keeps him in rooms built for songs meant to last beyond a single radio cycle, which matches the classic and timeless brief placed on the record itself.

For an audience that still knows Tribute and the early singles by heart, the stakes are straightforward. Come And Get It reopened the account; Lights Down arrives with the pre-order; Revolve, when its date is confirmed, will be the first John Newman album since the debut that made his name. The stretch of singles between the two LPs showed a writer still restless — collaborations, fresh mixes, returns to older material — but an album is a different kind of statement. Until the street date lands, the official site has the dates, and the pre-order is where the new music is already available.