Usher has large plans for 2024. Along with headlining the 2024 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present offered by Apple Music, the Grammy-winning R&B icon will even be releasing his subsequent album.
Coming Residence, the Atlanta celebrity’s ninth studio set, will arrive the identical day as his Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present on Feb. 11, 2024. This marks Usher’s first new album since 2016’s Exhausting II Love, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. He additionally teamed up with Zaytoven for the eight-track challenge, A, in 2018.
Coming Residence will function Usher’s earlier 2023 launch “Good Good,” that includes Summer season Walker and 21 Savage. The monitor reached No. 12 on Billboard‘s Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart. The upcoming album’s artwork encompasses a shirtless Usher holding a peach behind the again of his neck. The set is at present accessible for pre-order on Apple Music.
“I’m coming house, I’m again with my workforce,” Usher advised Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, noting that he’s working with Antonio “L.A.” Reid. “Even whenever you see the art work, you’ll perceive it. Once you see the peach. You get it. You perceive the place I’m from and what we’re doing.”
Usher added, “Greater than something, it’s a celebration of music. Coming house in lots of different methods as you get extra acclimated. Once I put out extra information and likewise to place extra visuals, truly start to essentially perceive it. However I believe that it’s one thing to be celebrated.”
Along with his new album, Usher will take the stage at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium to carry out the 2024 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present. “It’s an honor of a lifetime to lastly examine a Tremendous Bowl efficiency off my bucket listing. I can’t wait to convey the world a present not like the rest they’ve seen from me earlier than,” the singer mentioned in an announcement. “Thanks to the followers and everybody who made this chance occur. I’ll see you actual quickly.”
This yr will mark the fifth yr of the partnership between the NFL and Roc Nation to supply the Halftime Present, after a deal struck in 2019. That partnership has resulted in halftime exhibits by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez (2020), The Weeknd (2021), a hip-hop showcase anchored by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar (2022), and Rihanna (2023).
The present might be produced by DPS, with government producers Roc Nation and Jesse Collins, and might be directed by Hamish Hamilton.