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  1. Portals is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez, released on March 31, 2023, through Atlantic Records. [1] It is Martinez's first album after she [ a ] took a three-and-a-half-year hiatus from releasing music.

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    The promotion for PORTALS was somewhat canny to Melanie's previous album, K-12. In February 2023, a selection of snippets were released alongside animated visuals to tease the upcoming project. On February 17, 2023, a song was distributed among streaming services under Melanie's name, titled "...", which would later turn out to be an edited variant...

    Globally, the album was a commercial success. It represents Melanie's highest debut week gross, reaching almost 150.000 copies, 2.5 times higher than K-12. The album debuted atop the Australian and New Zealand Charts, becoming her first chart-topper in those countries respectively. The album reached the Top 3 in the UK, Scotland, Ireland and the Un...

    Melanie embarked on the PORTALS Tour in 2023, with additional legs in Europe and Asia, and concluded in 2024 which consisted mostly of songs from this album. For every show, Melanie dressed up as The Creature, with each show mostly having a different mask and outfit. In 2024, Melanie embarked on The Trilogy Tour, a tour featuring songs from her fir...

    There are 13 tracks on the standard track list and 3 additional on the deluxe version. There are currently 46 songs that were intended for PORTALS,but only some of them made the final cut, (30 tracks are unreleased, 16 tracks are released). There is both an explicit version of the album and a clean version. The standard album contains overall five ...

    *Music videos for all of the standard tracks have been confirmed, though their release dates are unannounced.

    The songs on this album that were written out of Melanie's real-life experiences are "VOID", "LIGHT SHOWER", "SPIDER WEB", "BATTLE OF THE LARYNX", "MOON CYCLE", "NYMPHOLOGY", "EVIL".
    The main cover art for PORTALS is likely inspired by "The World" tarot carddue to the striking resemblance between the pose, clothing and background. The card represents an ending to a life cycle o...
    The location of Melanie's now-deleted Instagram posts were tagged with "Somewhere between life & death," in line with the album's theme that explores the afterlife's various stages and concludes wi...
    The title of the album was slightly corroborated by Melanie after liking a TikTok comment asking if "Portals" was the album's name.
  3. Apr 5, 2023 · On April 3, 2023, the first piece of evidence that came to light was Melanie’s scrapped song, “Sirens,” which started copyrighting videos on YouTube that had the song played in its entirety.

  4. Apr 30, 2023 · Portals” by Melanie Martinez is a masterclass in the art of practical effects and musical storytelling. “Follow the tunnel into the portal/Lay all your burdens to rest,” Martinez sings on “Tunnel Vision,” the first song I have heard from this project.

  5. May 5, 2023 · PLUTO” is the fifteenth song on PORTALS, and another depressing track. The song features an off-putting waltz tempo and seemingly focuses on Martinez’s journey before reinventing and rebirthing herself.

  6. Mar 31, 2023 · The song was actually leaked by a hacker back in 2021 but was so important to the album’s overall concept, the singer just couldn’t depart with it like they had most of the other drafts leaked in that same attack.

  7. Mar 31, 2023 · PORTALS, an Album by Melanie Martinez. Released 31 March 2023 on Atlantic. Genres: Alt-Pop.