Davido is back with a new era. The Afrobeats superstar has announced his sixth studio album, ORIADÉ, arriving July 31, a release that lands exactly as he marks 15 years in the music industry.
The title fuses two Yoruba words: ori, meaning head or destiny, and adé, meaning crown. Together they translate loosely to “crowned head,” and Davido says the project is built around themes of purpose, identity, and destiny. He unveiled the news with a cinematic trailer showing him in traditional Yoruba attire, seated on a throne, captioned “The kingdom expands. Chosen long before the throne.”
ORIADÉ will run 13 tracks, making it the shortest full-length project of his career. His previous albums, Omo Baba Olowo, A Good Time, A Better Time, Timeless, and 5ive, all carried 17 tracks apiece.
The album is led by “I Know Who I Be,” which dropped June 26 and sets the emotional tone for the project, an anthem about self-belief and knowing your identity before the world catches up.
Speaking to Billboard, Davido described the album as deeply personal. “Over fifteen years ago, I made a decision to trust something I couldn’t fully explain. I just knew music was my destiny,” he said, adding that ORIADÉ reflects a period of gratitude and looking back at the journey that got him here. He also hinted at a sonic return to his roots, describing the new music as distinctly African and closer to his original sound.
ORIADÉ follows 5ive, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard World Albums chart and earned Davido a Grammy nomination for “With You” featuring Omah Lay. The album’s rollout has been backed by a stacked year for Davido, including his Coachella debut in April and a feature on the official FIFA World Cup 2026 soundtrack alongside Major Lazer and Nelly Furtado.
With more than 30 million followers across social media, Davido remains the most-followed Afrobeats artist in the world, and ORIADÉ looks set to be one of the defining moments of his career.