Tinashe drops the dancefloor single 'Melatonin' ahead of 'Popstar'

Tinashe released a new single called 'Melatonin' on August 13, out with a music video. The song is an uptempo dance-pop track, and it points ahead to her eighth album, 'Popstar,' due September 25. 'Melatonin' follows two earlier singles from the same run, 'Too Easy' and 'Crash Out,' so the album's rollout is well underway.

Production comes from Zack Sekoff, nightfeelings, and Ricky Reed, a set of collaborators that leans toward the club end of pop. The name plays against the tempo, since a song about a sleep aid that runs this wired is clearly built to keep people on the floor rather than send them to bed.

The video leans into that same tension: directed by 91 Rules, who has also made videos for Kelela and Destroy Lonely, it sets Tinashe against a backdrop of ballet, hip-hop and ballroom dancers in a series of high-fashion looks, turning the song into a showcase for movement rather than a straight performance clip.

'Melatonin' arrives on the back of Tinashe's biggest commercial run yet. Her 2024 single 'Nasty' and the Disco Lines collaboration 'No Broke Boys,' both pulled from her previous album 'Quantum Baby,' went back-to-back to No. 1, and 'No Broke Boys' won Dance Song of the Year at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards on top of nominations at the AMAs and BRIT Awards. To mark 'Popstar's' release, Tinashe has also booked three headlining fall shows in Chicago, Brooklyn and Los Angeles, which sold out their presale faster than any run she has put on sale before.

Tinashe has spent recent years working as an independent artist with real control over her output, and the steady drip of singles fits that model and keeps her in front of listeners between full releases. 'Popstar' will show how the pieces fit together as a record.

For now, 'Melatonin' is the third look at what she is building toward, and it is streaming now. The single is now part of the release calendar, filed under pop and R&B and soul.