Nick Jonas is officially back in solo mode, and he’s doing it in a way that feels less like a rollout and more like an invitation. The singer just announced his next full-length project, Sunday Best, set for release on February 6, 2026, marking his first solo album in nearly five years.

The reveal didn’t happen through a glossy teaser or a late-night TV surprise. Instead, Nick chose something warmer and more personal: a Sunday Best Brunch at Nellie’s Southern Kitchen in Las Vegas, the Jonas family-owned restaurant. In front of about 170 fans, he performed several new songs live for the first time and spoke about the record’s creative DNA alongside collaborator Daniel Wall of Behind The Wall. The vibe was intimate and grounded, the kind of setting that makes it clear this era is built on closeness, not spectacle.

So what kind of album is Sunday Best shaping up to be? Early release notes point to Nick’s most inward-looking solo work yet, shaped by the last couple of years of his life, both the celebratory highs and the difficult stretches, filtered through the perspective he’s gained as a husband and father.

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The promise here isn’t just romance, but reflection: songs that sit in the complicated middle space between gratitude and growing pains. The collaborators attached to the project only deepen that expectation. With writers and artists like JP Saxe and Josette Maskin of MUNA in the mix, plus Blush and Ryan Daly, Sunday Best hints at a palette that can glide from tender singer-songwriter confessionals into sleek pop-R&B, all while keeping the emotional lens sharply in focus.

Fans actually got a preview of this emotional temperature earlier in November. During the Jonas Brothers’ Newark stop, Nick debuted a new track titled “I Need You”, performing it at the piano with a full choir. Before the song, an intro asked him how he would describe the album to someone who’d never heard his music.

His answer was simple and sweeping: it sounds like love, real love, the kind that costs something. The moment was already powerful on its own, but what came next sent longtime fans into full-on theory mode. He pivoted directly into a gospel-charged revival of “Jealous,” echoing the iconic choir version many have loved since his 2014 Vevo performance. In hindsight, the pairing felt like a bridge between eras: a reminder of where Nick’s solo journey began, and a signal that he was about to turn the page.

That page turn lands differently because Nick’s solo career has always been about evolution. His 2014 self-titled album introduced him as a confident pop-R&B frontman in his own right. Last Year Was Complicated in 2016 sharpened that identity with more mature emotional complexity. Then Spaceman in 2021 arrived during a period of isolation and uncertainty, wrapping intimacy and longing in glossy synth-pop. Sunday Best feels like the next logical step: not a reinvention for reinvention’s sake, but an expansion. 

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Meanwhile, the Jonas Brothers machine is still rolling. The trio remains on the road with the JONAS20: Greetings From Your Hometown Tour, celebrating two decades as a band, and even Kevin has started dipping into solo waters with new music of his own. But Nick announcing a full solo album in the middle of a major group era is the clearest sign yet that 2026 will be a two-lane year for the Jonas universe: band nostalgia and individual storytelling running side by side.

If the brunch launch tells us anything, it’s that Nick Jonas wants this record to feel lived-in. Sunday Best isn’t arriving as a loud comeback or a grab for the charts. It’s arriving like a conversation you’ve been waiting to have, one that’s been forming quietly in the background of his life, and now finally gets to be heard out loud.

Mark February 6 on your calendar. If the first hints are right, Sunday Best won’t just soundtrack the start of Nick’s next era. It might soundtrack yours, too.

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