Waiting until 2025 or 2026 to release a new album? That's too far away. They need to release it this year. They are not getting younger and time is getting short. Strike while the iron is hot and keep the momentum going. They used to release an album a year. I hope they do that again.

Going by the comments, of having other songs in the can coupled with "we aren't done yet" - and considering the possible recording in Italy -- I am thinking they are looking to surprise everyone with a sooner than later release - as in maybe within the next couple months.

But then again, it could be end up being another 18 years and counting...

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Going by the comments, of having other songs in the can coupled with "we aren't done yet" - and considering the possible recording in Italy -- I am thinking they are looking to surprise everyone with a sooner than later release - as in maybe within the next couple months.

But then again, it could be end up being another 18 years and counting...

It seems that the Stones could release a new album this year if they wanted to - to my understanding their contract with UMG is basically "at will".

It would certainly make sense to release a new album after the tour, and maybe at some point during the tour they get a single finished and released, and just lump it in with the HD tour.

Because no matter what who at UMG says about 18 months blah blah blah because that's their window, it doesn't mean/state that at the end of the 17th month post-release that they do something (or that it actually goes 18 months). What, a seventh single? No one paid attention to the first three except maybe a few thousand fans.

No one will care by then - but a new album, hell yeah, TIME ON A CHAIN (an ode to their age and last album, with a picture of a watch with a chain attached to trousers/jeans) with a year or two tour. Because they (UMG) go by what Mick says: they're not going to tell him no: a new album moves better than a single.

And then another greatest hits comp after the follow up to HD called...

PAINT IT BLACK. Hopefully. Opposed to SIXTY PLUS or some lame ass album title like in 2012. Because they'll make fun of themselves being 83-85 years old and be brilliantly arrogant and release an octuplet hits compilation that covers their entire career because they can and then... it's truly over.

As it should be by then.

Not very far away.

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Now, Rainy Day Men aside, on the actual topic: my understanding is that the Stones were originally supposed to release two albums in 2023. One earlier on the year and another around the holidays.

Did they every say anythig like this? (I couldn't recall.).

They did not.

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So the next album will be French chansons?

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Will this be the best album since Hackney Diamonds?

Yeah, any new album will be the best since the last one.

More seriously now, a new album together with (or before) a potential Fall tour wouldn't seem totally unrealistic to me. Might also freshen up the set lists a bit.

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Going by the comments, of having other songs in the can coupled with "we aren't done yet" - and considering the possible recording in Italy -- I am thinking they are looking to surprise everyone with a sooner than later release - as in maybe within the next couple months.

But then again, it could be end up being another 18 years and counting...

It seems that the Stones could release a new album this year if they wanted to - to my understanding their contract with UMG is basically "at will".

It would certainly make sense to release a new album after the tour, and maybe at some point during the tour they get a single finished and released, and just lump it in with the HD tour.

Because no matter what who at UMG says about 18 months blah blah blah because that's their window, it doesn't mean/state that at the end of the 17th month post-release that they do something (or that it actually goes 18 months). What, a seventh single? No one paid attention to the first three except maybe a few thousand fans.

No one will care by then - but a new album, hell yeah, TIME ON A CHAIN (an ode to their age and last album, with a picture of a watch with a chain attached to trousers/jeans) with a year or two tour. Because they (UMG) go by what Mick says: they're not going to tell him no: a new album moves better than a single.

And then another greatest hits comp after the follow up to HD called...

PAINT IT BLACK. Hopefully. Opposed to SIXTY PLUS or some lame ass album title like in 2012. Because they'll make fun of themselves being 83-85 years old and be brilliantly arrogant and release an octuplet hits compilation that covers their entire career because they can and then... it's truly over.

As it should be by then.

Not very far away.

Well my thinking is ... they (hopefully) might thing that too much time has passed since HD and the upcoming tour, and that they'll surprise us all w/ a release to start w/ the tour. It could happen!!

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My bad, I didn't see it. Thank you

I reckon they will, if they can, tour Europe after the US. Probably next year but who know, maybe later in the year. They might work on the new album at stages but will hold on to it until they toured at least the US and EU before they will release it.

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For a minute I thought there was also a superdeluxe edition released, but it's just the name of the site and it are the same versions we saw before.

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I reckon they will, if they can, tour Europe after the US. Probably next year but who know, maybe later in the year. They might work on the new album at stages but will hold on to it until they toured at least the US and EU before they will release it.

Europe is not this year I really doubt it.