Martin Garrix Announces ‘MARTY’, a 14-Track Pop Album Featuring U2 and Madonna

Martin Garrix built his career on records designed to be sung by crowds rather than by singers. On 5 March 2027 that changes, when his debut pop album ‘MARTY’ arrives with fourteen tracks and a guest list that includes U2 and Madonna.

The two names do most of the announcing on their own. One is a band with a catalogue older than most of Garrix’s audience, the other a pop figure whose influence has outlasted several cycles of it. Placing both on a record by a Dutch dance producer is not a subtle gesture, and it signals the kind of album this is meant to be: songs first, with the producer’s name as the frame rather than the attraction.

Garrix has spent years putting pop voices over his productions, which makes the crossover less of a leap than the headline suggests. What is new is the framing. A fourteen-track album presented as pop asks to be judged against pop records, not against festival sets, and a project carrying features of that size invites attention that will not stay on the production.

That is the risk built into ‘MARTY’. Large guests absorb the conversation, and an album can end up discussed as a meeting of names rather than a body of work. The measure will be whether the fourteen tracks stand as songs, and whether Garrix sounds like a songwriter across a full record rather than a producer hosting visitors.