Cher Claims Upcoming Album Will 'Probably' Be Her Last

After more than 60 years in the music industry, Cher has claimed her upcoming record will “probably” be the last album she releases.

Per UK publication The Sun, Cher made her recent comments while at London's Lyceum Theater in support of her recently-released biography, Cher: The Memoir, Part One. While discussing the first of her two-volume release, she turned her attention to her upcoming 28th album.

“This is probably my last album that I'm gonna do,” she admitted. “I'm really excited. They are great songs and I'm just really excited that I'm doing it.”

Although no specific details have been announced as yet, Cher confirmed her intentions to make a new record while speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. A new record of entirely original material would be her first since 2013's Closer to the Truthalthough some new compositions arrived on 2023's Christmaswhich topped the Top Holiday Albums chart.

“I'm really excited to be doing anything now,” Cher told the English crowd. “I'm older than dirt now, OK?” I'm the oldest person I meet in almost every room unless I'm in an old folks' home.”

Releasing her first album in 1965 as one half of duo Sonny & Cher with then-husband Sonny Bono, Cher launched a solo career that same year, and embarked upon a journey which would eventually see her crowned the 'Goddess of Pop'.

In October, Cher was honored with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony which also saw Mary J. Blige, A Tribe Called Quest, Peter Frampton, and others inducted.

During her well-received speech at the ceremony, Cher recalled the advice that she had been given by her mother from a young age that guided her career to where it is today. “She said to me, 'You might not be the prettiest, you might not be the smartest, you might not be the most talented, but you're special,'” she said. “She kept instilling it into me: 'If you're down and you're out, you get up again.'”

Cher continued her speech by ensuring the women in the audience were paying attention to her words. “The one thing I have never done is I never give up. And I am talking to the women, okay — you guys are on your own,” she offered. “We have been down and out, but we keep striving, and we keep going and we are somebody. We are special, as my mother would say.”