Selena Gomez and music producer Benny Blanco have released their first ever album together.
The singer, 32, and her fiancé, 37, took to Instagram on Friday to revealed they have finally released I Said I Love You First.
Their romantic LP features 14 songs which span over 35 minutes and details various loved-up confessions about their relationship and feelings.
It features collaborations with Gracie Abrams for Call Me When You Break Up and Latin superstars Tainy and J Balvin for I Can’t Get Enough.
Other stars such as Maria Zardoya feature in the release as she lent her talented vocals for Ojos Tristes. Finneas and Charli XCX also contributed as songwriters.
The release kicked off with the Abrams collab and Sunset Blvd – a song inspired by their first date.
Selena Gomez, 32, and music producer fiancé Benny Blanco,37, have released their first ever album together which has given an insight into their blossoming romance
The singer and her fiancé took to Instagram on Friday to revealed they have finally released I Said I Love You First
Announcing the release on social media, Selena wrote: ‘I Said I Love You First with is @itsbennyblanco officially out in the world!
‘benny, thank you for being my own personal journal throughout this process. These songs represent our past, present and future… something I can’t wait to experience with you from now until forever.
‘Thank you for pouring your unconditional love into creating this project with me.
‘To every collaborator on the album: @gracieabrams, @themarias, @finneas, @charlixcx and so many more, thank you for helping me communicate my deepest, truest self into art. I am forever grateful for your trust in creating something so special together.
‘And finally, thank you to my amazing fans who have grown up with me and cheered me on through every chapter of this story.
‘I hope you love these songs like I do and they help you along your own journey. Thank you for being a part of mine, it truly means the world to me.’
Ahead of the release, they confessed to Rolling Stone that the recording of the album was the ‘most intimate’ she had ever felt in the studio.
Benny said: ‘She’d wake up, I’d have a pen out, and I’d write what was on her mind.
‘Then we’d go into the other room and create it, and it became a song.
‘It was such a cathartic and therapeutic experience.’
Their romantic LP features 14 songs which span over 35 minutes and details various loved-up confessions about their relationship and feelings
The new album is Selena’s first full-length release since 2021 when she released her Spanish EP, Revelación. The same year, Benny released Friends Keep Secrets 2.
Their album release comes after they confessed that Selena nearly ruined Benny’s very romantic proposal in December.
Selena and Benny announced their engagement in mid-December 2024, just before the holidays.
The happy couple appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, to promote I Said I Love You First.
Benny admitted the proposal was quite chaotic, admitting it was, ‘the scariest week of my life’ on the late-night talk show.
During the interview, Selena explained that she didn’t see it coming and nearly botched the whole thing as she wanted to stay home.
They were doing promotions for the album, and Selena admitted she wanted to push this particular shoot… which is when he planned to pop the question.
‘I woke up and I was very confused on what was happening on where we were going, because it seemed kind of far. So I’m kind of a little grumpy,’ she admitted.
‘I’m like, “I really am tired. This is too far.” So then I tell him, I say, “After this shoot, I’m gonna go hang out with my friends.” And he starts, I guess, going, “Uh, okay, sure. We’ll, you know, we’ll see you when you get here.’
When Jimmy asked Benny if he was, ‘freaking out,’ he confirmed, ‘Of course I’m freaking out! She was mad! She almost didn’t come!’
‘She was like, “I really don’t feel that well. I think I’m just gonna stay home today. Can’t we just make up the shoot another day?”.
The happy couple appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday which saw Benny admit his proposal was quite chaotic and was ‘the scariest week of my life’
During the interview, Selena explained she didn’t see it coming and nearly botched the whole thing as she wanted to stay home (pictured leaving The Tonight show studio in New York)
When Jimmy asked Benny if he was, ‘freaking out,’ he confirmed, ‘Of course I’m freaking out! She was mad! She almost didn’t come!’ (pictured leaving The Tonight show studio in New York)
The producer added he was, ‘trying to figure out a way to do it,’ and said ‘First of all, getting engaged to someone is the craziest thing in the world.’
‘It’s like, right before you’re gonna tell someone you’re gonna be married to them forever, they’re like, “Show me how good you can lie to me.” It’s the hardest thing. It’s so hard,’ he said to applause.
Benny added that the task was made even more difficult because ‘he tells her everything’.
‘So it was like, she was just upset with me because like, the day before, I was like, making bad lies’, he added.
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