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Popstar (Tinashe album)

2026 studio album by Tinashe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Popstar is the eighth studio album by American singer Tinashe. It was released through Nice Life Recording Company, Atlantic Records, and her own imprint label, Tinashe Music, on September 25, 2026. "Too Easy" was released as the album's lead single. Tinashe unveiled Popstar's album cover and release date on July 16, releasing its second single, "Crash Out". "Melatonin" and "Pillow Fight" followed later.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Popstar (Tinashe album)” is 2026 studio album by Tinashe. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Popstar, Tinashe and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Popstar, Tinashe and album is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Popstar (Tinashe album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.