Dan And Shay Tease New Album With May 5 Instagram Post

Dan and Shay used Instagram on Tuesday, May 5 to tee up their next album era with new photos, videos, and a blunt caption: “The album is coming!” The post arrives less than two years after Bigger Houses, their 12-track studio album from September 2023.

May 5 Instagram post

The collection mixed selfies from Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney with studio snapshots and short clips of the duo working on new music. It also folded in a cover of Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” a recent performance with Christian artist Brandon Lake, and a crowd singalong from Stagecoach.

Smyers pushed the tease further in the comments, writing, “and it’s our best album yet.” That kind of direct fan-facing rollout has become the cleanest signal available in an era when artists often use social posts to set expectations before a formal announcement lands.

Bigger Houses after burnout

Bigger Houses was the duo’s first project after they nearly quit music because of intense burnout, which makes this new tease feel less like routine album marketing and more like the next phase of a reset that started in 2023. The post also follows last month’s release of “Say So,” a track Smyers and Mooney wrote with David Hodges and Jimmy Robbins, with Smyers co-producing alongside Scott Hendricks.

Dan + Shay framed “Say So” as more than a single, saying it “is a true story about a friend who we lost not long ago, and we hope it offers strength and encouragement to anyone going through a tough time” and “is a reminder that no matter what you are going through, you don’t have to go through it alone. We wrote this song from a very personal place and could not be more proud to stand behind the message.” That message, paired with the 988 reference in the video, gave the duo’s current run a public-health edge that the album tease does not erase.

What comes after 988

By Wednesday morning, May 6, Dan + Shay still had not added more details about the album, so the Instagram post functions as a teaser rather than a full rollout. For now, the practical takeaway is simple: the duo has moved from one-off single promotion into a larger album campaign, and they chose to do it with visuals that connect the new record to studio work, live moments, and the songs that have carried this era so far.