Vybz Kartel announces The Sun, a new album due 18 December

If you have only met dancehall through a Bollywood remix or a Drake feature, Vybz Kartel is the name worth knowing. The Jamaican deejay has been one of the genre's defining voices for more than fifteen years, and he is not slowing down: he has now announced a second album for 2026.

What has been announced

Kartel shared the news on Instagram with promotional artwork saying he is "dropping another new album called The Sun", with a release date of 18 December 2026. We have not found a pre-save link, label announcement or tracklist yet, so treat the date as the artist's own and subject to change.

The bigger plan

Kartel has also been quoted, from an interview given in early October, describing The Sun as the first chapter of a themed album series called The Universe, with The Moon and The Star to follow and possibly The Galaxy after that. We have not seen him lay out the series on his own channels yet, so treat it as a plan rather than a schedule.

What is not confirmed

Other details are doing the rounds: that The Sun runs to around 16 tracks and was made with producer Chambah Music. Neither has been confirmed by Kartel or a label, and no guest features have been named. Until a tracklist appears, treat anything beyond the title and the date as unconfirmed.

The context: God & Time

The Sun follows God & Time, which came out on 5 June 2026. That 14-track record featured Wizkid, Mavado, Spice, Shenseea, Skillibeng and Farruko, and two albums inside one year is a pace few artists at his level try to keep. God & Time has been among the best-charting dancehall albums of 2026, and Kartel has now debuted three projects on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart in the last two years.

Wizkid's appearance on God & Time is a handy way in if you know him from Afrobeats: it shows how closely the Caribbean and West African scenes now overlap.

What we will watch

A tracklist, a lead single and a confirmed release platform are the three things that will turn this from an announcement into a proper rollout. We will update when Kartel or his team share them.

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