Lana Del Rey's Rock Candy Sweet album: When is it out?

22 March 2021, 14:56 | Updated: 28 April 2021, 13:29

Lana Del Rey on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 8 — Lana Del Rey has announced another album for 2021. Picture: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

By Jenny Mensah

Just after releasing her Chemtrails Over the Country Club record, Lana Del Rey has announced her eighth album will be very close behind. Find out more here.

Lana Del Rey has shocked her fans by announcing the release of another album this year.

The US singer-songwriter's Chemtrails Over the Country Club album was released to positive reviews on 19 March, but it's since been confirmed that an eighth record will come hot on its heels this summer.

Taking to Instagram to share the cover, Lana wrote: "ROCK CANDY SWEET
"June 1".

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When is Lana Del Rey's Rock Candy Sweet released?

Rock Candy Sweet is set for release on 1 June 2021. Lana said that it would tackle criticisms against her of “cultural appropriation and glamorising domestic abuse”.

Fans were of course delighted by the news, which would give them a double helping of new music from the artist in 2021.

One fan wrote under her Instagram post: "2021 just got much much better".

Another wrote on Twitter: "The good news keeps on coming: Album of the year so far (probably) already has an announced follow-up."

The good news keeps on coming: Album of the year so far (probably) already has an announced follow-up. https://t.co/cjDA9LMm0e
— Sam C. Mac (@samcmac) March 22, 2021

One eagle-eyed fan noticed that the promo photo for her current album features as the artwork for its follow-up

so the chemtrails promo pic is also the cover for rock candy sweet?? i can't with her 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/BPD4IGG4yW
— greg 🪁 (@dixiedemalio) March 20, 2021

Chemtrails Over the Country Club is out now.

Listen to it here:

What is the Lana Cult?

The Lana Cult is a self-assigned name for fans who love Lana Del Rey and want her to prominently feature on TikTok and social media in general. They tried to achieve this by sharing the same image of the Video Games singer, which sees her smiling to camera as a car behind her is engulfed in flames.

Fans are either changing their own profile pictures to the same image or adapting their own selfies to feature the same background in support of the star.

The trend may seem pretty pointless, but the #LanaCult hashtag has amassed around 50 million views on TikTok and counting.

Plus, her fans are encouraging the same sort of love and dedication on Twitter.