Jorja Smith announces third album ‘What Are The Odds’ out August 21 via FAMM, sharing Wizkid collaboration ‘Alive’ and a Paris-shot Gabriel Trautmann video
Jorja Smith is back with a new club-ready album this summer. On July 2, 2026, the Walsall-born singer announced What Are The Odds, her third studio album, due August 21 via FAMM. The announcement arrived alongside “Alive,” a new single featuring Wizkid, and a Paris-shot music video directed by Gabriel Trautmann that follows Smith through a sweltering summer night before she reunites with the Nigerian superstar at the song’s close. The album lands on the same day Smith co-headlines All Points East in Victoria Park, London, with Tems, where she will perform the new material live for the first time.
What Are The Odds is produced throughout by P2J, who served as a primary collaborator on her 2023 album Falling or Flying. The 12-track record draws on UK garage, grime, 2-step, UK funky, soulful house and Afro house, and rarely dips below 140 BPM. “This album came together really naturally,” Smith told Billboard.
“There was never a big plan; it was just me making music that felt right in the moment.” She was equally direct about what the record is for: “This is music to make you move. I want people to hear it on the dancefloor, where the sun is shining, in the car and in their headphones on the night bus home. This is a record for driving and vibing.”
What ‘Alive’ Sounds Like and Why Wizkid Was the Right Call
“Alive” is built on warm instrumentation and a supple, late-night pulse, thriving on the effortless vocal chemistry between Smith and Wizkid. Smith has been specific about where that feeling came from in the studio. “Making this with P2J and Wizkid felt really easy,” she told Billboard. “We wrote and recorded it together in London. I think we captured that feeling when you’re at the beginning of something with someone and everything feels exciting.
I’ve always loved Wizkid’s music and the way he’s opened so many doors for Afrobeats around the world, so it feels really special and a big honor to have a song with him.”
The accompanying visual treats the mood like a vignette of a sweltering Parisian night, with blurred streetlights, hotel room afterparties, and the quiet clarity of a balcony at dawn. The visual is an aesthetic blueprint for what the album promises: not a calculated pivot into club music but something born from gut feeling and genuine creative ease.
Devlin, ‘London City,’ and What the Full Album Covers
One of the most striking inclusions in the What Are The Odds tracklist is “This City,” which features Devlin contributing a re-recorded version of his verse from 2010’s “London City,” the track that stands as one of the defining grime records of its era. The decision to bring Devlin back to that verse, re-recorded rather than simply sampled, roots the album’s dance floor ambitions directly in the London subcultures that shaped Jorja Smith from the beginning of her career.
Tracks like “For Life” reportedly tackle the painful reality of loving a friend through addiction, while “Pretend” sits with the sting of betrayal. The hedonism is balanced by emotional weight throughout, which is exactly the quality that has always distinguished Smith’s best work from the simply danceable. “The music feels uplifting,” she told Billboard, “but the lyrics can be a bit sad at times.”
2026 has already been a busy year for Smith, who served as a musical guest on the debut season of Saturday Night Live UK in April and collaborated with Mobb Deep’s Havoc for a remix of her “Blue Lights” classic. What Are The Odds is the record that consolidates all of that activity into a single statement. August 21, co-headlining All Points East the same evening the album drops, is the kind of release day that does not need a campaign to explain itself.
Full tracklist:
For Life
What Are The Odds
What’s Done Is Done
This City (feat. Devlin)
Pretend
The Way It Was
I Lied, You Lied
Dancing
Alive (feat. Wizkid)
Young Heart
Make It Your Home
When It Gets Like That
