Riley Green Confirms New Music Is Coming Early In 2026: “In The Studio Now”

David Higgs

New music is coming soon.

Riley Green has had a very successful year in 2025, which included winning multiple big awards for his duet with Ella Langley “You Look Like You Love Me,” as well as selling out shows all over the country on his Damn Country Music tour.

He didn’t put out a ton of new music, aside from the deluxe edition of his 2024 album Don’t Mind If I Do, in addition to his Midtown Sessions EP, but fans didn’t get a full album, though it sounds like that is coming soon.

During an appearance on the Like A Farmer podcast this week, Riley confirmed that new music is on the way “early” next year, and he’s been in the studio working on it already. He kept it pretty short and sweet, but I think fans will be excited to hear that they won’t have to wait much longer for some new tunes:

“In the studio now, we’re gonna put some new music out early in the year. Excited about that.”

He previously told Katie Neal during an interview on her Katie & Company radio show that this next batch of music is even more raw and stripped back than his aforementioned recent album.

He explained that all of the new cuts are built around an acoustic track, and are much less produced than anything he’s done before… which is saying a lot, because I think Riley tends to keep it pretty simple all the time, which is what I love about his music:

“I was gonna tell you about it… yeah, we recorded some new songs. There’s some country stuff. I feel like it’s a little raw… a little rougher recording, which I really enjoy.

I think that was something we did right on this last album. I was excited about going into the studio and doing a little less production, kind of building around an acoustic track, and that’s literally what we did.

Yeah, there’s some stuff that I feel like is a little different, a little less produced, which is kind of the direction I’ve wanted to go.”

Over the weekend, Riley scored his fourth Country Airplay #1 with his second duet with Ella Langley, “Don’t Mind If I Do.” It’s Ella’s second on that chart, and they’re now just the second pair since the list launched in January 1990 to have earned multiple collaborative #1s, after Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani led in 2020 with “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere.”

For Riley, he becomes the first artist since Taylor Swift to land back-to-back Country Airplay #1s with songs written entirely on his or her own. One of his other solo writes, “Worst Way,” led the chart for two weeks in June.

Stay tuned, Riley Green fans… more music is on the way soon.