Dove Cameron Debut Album: Release Date, Songs, Tracklist

Fans know her as Mal from Descendants and through various singles, but Dove Cameron is finally gearing up to release her own solo album, Alchemical.

“The beautiful thing that I learned about being feeling and very sensitive is that if you sit with it for long enough you can make it into something really special, and it can become your superpower,” Dove told fans at the Kids’ Choice Awards in March 2023, teasing her debut album while accepting the award for Breakout Artist. “Just know that you’re not weak. You’re incredibly strong, and you might just be an artist in the making.”

Months later, she officially announced the title at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2023.

Keep reading for everything to know about Dove’s debut album.

Is Dove Cameron Releasing an Album?

Dove officially announce her album in September 2023, revealing that the title was Alchemical.

“I selfishly want to do it all,” the Disney Channel alum told Entertainment Tonight in October 2021, noting that she was gearing up to write more music. “I’ve always wanted to do it all.”

Is Dove Cameron Going on Tour?

In 2021, Dove took the music she’s already released on the road for the An Evening With Dove Cameron tour.

“It’s wild to have a body of work that spans over two years, and then, to just be beginning to perform it now feels sort of surreal,” the Liv and Maddie alum told ET at the time. “It’s exciting to get to sing it with fans who know all the words, the energy every night, and it’s a new experience for me, which at this point in my career, there aren’t that many of those, so it’s been amazing.”

While she’s dropped tons of standalone singles throughout her time in the spotlight, her acting projects have always been the focal point of her career — until now. During her interview with ET, the actress explained that she’s been hanging out with more music-focused people compared to her actor friends.

“It’s a totally different type of human being. Actors are expressers by nature and communicators, songwriters are like synthesizers, so it’s a sort of an outward versus an inward. All my songwriter friends are observing constantly and then they roll it up and then they repurpose it,” she shared. “Just through being in that environment, it’s definitely affected me in that way where I actually want to keep much more to myself. I wanna synthesize more and express less. It gives me more. I end up sleeping better. It feeds me more. It’s like nutrition … If you’re constantly giving it all away, you’re half empty.”

Scroll through our gallery for everything we know about Dove’s album so far.

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A New Era

“I can’t explain to you guys how meaningful this new era of music is for me. I finally feel like I’m creating as *~myself~* , not as the person I perceive people want me to be,” Dove wrote on Twitter in December 2021. “It’s so much more personal and empowered & it feels like I’m doing it for the first time. Totally new.”

‘Boyfriend’

“The feeling of having people like something in theory for a week, and then delivering on it, I was ready to die,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of the song in March 2022. “To me and to the people closest to me, my sexuality is not a revelation. I’ve even spoken about it in the public eye many times, but there’s a difference between that and then writing a song as explicit in the expression of your sexuality as this song. I definitely was very like, ‘This is going to crash and burn in 100 ways.’”

‘Breakfast’

Dove released ‘Breakfast’ in June 2022.

“‘Breakfast’ came about because I wrote this really angry poem where the last line is ‘I floss my teeth with men like you,'” Dove told the Los Angeles Times shortly after the song’s release. “I brought that into the studio right after ‘Boyfriend’ started to blow up on TikTok because I felt like I was writing this body of work that was all very villain-who-is-the-main-character.”

She continued, “A lot of the characters that I related to growing up as someone who was deeply traumatized from a young age with death and loss and things like that — a lot of those characters were villains. So I wanted to start writing for that character. We got the line ‘I eat boys like you for breakfast’ because ‘I floss my teeth with men like you’ just doesn’t sing as well.”

Writing All of the Songs

“I’m actually working on my debut album pretty much every day now, which I’m very, very excited about,” she shared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in March 2023. “I think the whole kind of — the idea is that you’re supposed to write like a hundred, choose your favorite 60, get it down to the best 40. …. You just write every day. That’s kind of the job, is you just go into the studio and you just nose to the grindstone write every day.”

‘Inches Away’ From Releasing an Album

“I have just narrowed it down from about 60 songs that I have written. I’m trying to get the number of songs on the album really high, but Columbia [Records] is being reasonable. I’m being unreasonable,” Dove told Variety in July 2023. “I’ve got all my favorites and most of them have been sent to the mixer and finished and the ones that aren’t I just left the studio last night at midnight while I’m in L.A.”

She added, “It’s definitely this year. I can say it’s very soon. I was working against a deadline that might have pushed it to next year but I fixed it. I’ll be able to announce it in a week or two.”