Melanie Martinez is an American singer-songwriter, director, and visual artist born in 1995 in Astoria, New York. She rose to prominence on season 3 of The Voice in 2012 and has since built a devoted following through conceptual albums - Cry Baby (2015), K-12 (2019), and Portals (2023) - each paired with elaborate visual worlds. Her fourth studio album, HADES, released March 27, 2026 via Atlantic Records, marks a new dystopian chapter and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
Melanie Martinez cancelled the first stop of the HADES: THE SACRIFICE tour in St. Paul (July 15) due to production issues; the tour now starts on July 17 in Chicago.
Melanie Martinez announced a North American and European HADES: THE SACRIFICE tour, which will take place from July to September 2026 and includes stops in Prague and other European capitals.
The fourth studio album HADES was released on March 27, 2026 on Atlantic Records; it is the first part of a planned double album with dystopian themes.
The single POSSESSION, Martinez's first new music in three years, debuted with 2.7 million streams on Spotify in the first 24 hours and became her fastest-streamed single.
Trilogy Tour - Martinez's first arena tour - ended in November 2024 after 53 concerts in North America, Europe, and Latin America with revenues exceeding 38 million dollars.
