--- title: Frank Ocean's New Album Release Date description: Despite wild speculation and some well-confirmed release dates, Frank Ocean has not dropped his new album, leading the Internet to draw its own conclusions. canonical: https://time.com/4444187/frank-ocean-album-release-date/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T14:59:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:14.485Z og:title: Is This Frank Ocean's Album's New Release Date? og:description: Another day, another Frank Ocean conspiracy theory og:url: https://time.com/4444187/frank-ocean-album-release-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84a6297b15756743/6988a19dfb4eacb93a88eac2/frank-ocean-new-album-release-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is This Frank Ocean's Album's New Release Date? twitter:description: Another day, another Frank Ocean conspiracy theory twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84a6297b15756743/6988a19dfb4eacb93a88eac2/frank-ocean-new-album-release-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Is This Frank Ocean's Album's New Release Date? > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Jason Merritt—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 9, 2016 2:59 PM UTC After extensive research and [some seemingly credible sources](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/arts/music/frank-ocean-boys-dont-cry-apple-release-date.html) pointed to [Frank Ocean](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/frank-ocean/)‘s long-awaited sophomore album _Boys Don’t Cry_ [getting a digital release on August 5](http://time.com/4440866/frank-ocean-new-album-internet-reactions/)—and then never materialized—there was widespread [disappointment (and in many cases, outrage)](http://time.com/4439541/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry-info/). However, dedicated ( and thirsty) fans [re-examined the few clues that Frank has scattered like breadcrumbs](http://time.com/4413818/frank-ocean-next-album-boys-dont-cry/)—and intriguingly enough, found a loophole that both exonerates Frank and gives a potential new release date. Fans re-visited the image of a library return date card, the bottom date of which read, “July 2016″—leading most to assume that the album would be released in July of 2016, nearly a year after fan rumors flew that he would release an album titled, _Boys Don’t Cry_. > [](https://twitter.com/TeamFrankDaily/status/749129084765110272) Closer examination however, shows, that there’s yet another date on the card that has not yet passed. On the upper-thirds of the card, another date reads, “Nov 13 2016” which fans have concluded could be the [potential new release date for Ocean’s album, if it even actually exists](http://time.com/4432730/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry/). 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