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Lil Baby Announces ‘Fresh’ Release Date and Track List With Young Thug and Future

The announcement puts Baby’s next album in focus after WHAM reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2025.

October 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET

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Lil Baby Announces ‘Fresh’ Release Date and Track List With Young Thug and Future

Lil Baby is putting Fresh on the calendar. According to Billboard, the rapper has announced the album’s release date and track list, with Young Thug and Future named among its featured artists.

That makes this more than an album-title tease: the announcement covers both the release schedule and the guest lineup. There is an important limitation, though. The supplied Billboard excerpt does not include the actual date, individual song titles or full credits, so those details cannot be reproduced here.

What is established is the project’s name and the involvement of two artists whose appearances give listeners something concrete to anticipate. Whether Thug and Future appear together or on separate tracks is not specified in the available material.

A New Announcement After a No. 1 Album

The chart backdrop is clear. WHAM topped the Billboard 200 in January 2025, giving Baby a No. 1 album ahead of this latest announcement. That achievement is the central piece of context Billboard supplies for Fresh.

It also creates an obvious point of comparison once the new music arrives. A previous chart-topper gives the next release a commercial benchmark, but it does not tell us how Fresh will sound, what its first-week performance will be or which songs will connect most strongly. Those are questions for the release itself—not conclusions to draw from a guest list.

For now, the news is about the rollout taking shape. Announcing a date and track list shifts attention toward the record’s contents, even if the excerpt available here stops short of laying out the complete package.

The Features Are the Headline—Not the Whole Story

Young Thug and Future are the named collaborators in Billboard’s headline. Their inclusion is a meaningful part of the announcement, but it should not be mistaken for a complete account of the album. The supplied report does not establish its length, production lineup or whether additional guests appear.

The next useful details are straightforward: the exact release date, the complete sequence and the credits attached to each song. Until those are available, the strongest confirmed takeaway is also the simplest: Lil Baby has announced Fresh with Young Thug and Future featured, following the January 2025 chart success of WHAM.

Source: Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop

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