aespa LEMONADE Full Tracklist Revealed: Becky G and Ty Dolla $ign Join G-Dragon for K-Pop's Most Star-Studded Album Drop of May 2026

With less than 24 hours until the May 29, 2026 release of their second full-length album LEMONADE, aespa's complete tracklist is confirmed: Becky G features on the title track 'LEMONADE,' while Ty Dolla $ign appears on 'Switchblade' — joining BIGBANG's G-Dragon, already announced on the pre-release single 'WDA (Whole Different Animal).' The aespa LEMONADE Becky G and Ty Dolla $ign collaborations make this one of the most internationally diverse feature rosters on any K-pop album in 2026, and position LEMONADE as the genre's most consequential commercial event before the summer season begins. The album drops May 29 at 1 PM KST.

LEMONADE's 11 tracks span electronic dance, hip-hop, and R&B pop, structured around what aespa and SM Entertainment describe as a 'sour meets sweet' conceptual direction: two contrasting emotional and sonic temperatures that move through the album's arc. The confirmed tracklist runs: 'INTRO: P.O.S,' the pre-release track 'Can I Get That,' the title track 'LEMONADE' (featuring Becky G on the digital version), 'WEEEE,' 'MIRROR MIRROR,' 'Beautiful Dreamer,' 'MONOPOLY,' 'ICING,' 'Can't Help Myself,' 'Ice Breaker,' and 'WDA (Whole Different Animal)' featuring G-Dragon — which released May 11 as the album's pre-release single. Each track was designed to function as a standalone streaming entity while the sequence itself builds with intentional momentum from intro to close.

The title track 'LEMONADE' is an electronic dance song built on heavy synthesised bass, its lyrics drawing on the English proverb about turning lemons into lemonade — converting adversity into growth. The digital version features Becky G, the Mexican-American pop artist whose multilingual delivery and Latin crossover credentials bring a vocal colour distinct from aespa's signature production register. The combination of English pop vocabulary with Becky G's Spanish-inflected style and aespa's synthesised vocal approach is a deliberate piece of cross-cultural bridging: the kind of feature that expands the track's geographic appeal without pulling it away from the aespa sonic identity.

'Switchblade,' featuring Ty Dolla $ign, takes a harder angle: the lyrics use a switchblade as a metaphor for the many changing sides of personal identity, carried on production that extends the hip-hop and R&B register established by WDA. Ty Dolla $ign's production and collaboration history spans Kanye West, The Weeknd, and Beyoncé — a context that places 'Switchblade' in a different register from typical K-pop crossover attempts. Together, Becky G and Ty Dolla $ign join G-Dragon to give LEMONADE's feature list a genuine cross-genre reach that few K-pop albums have assembled in a single project.

K-pop's history of Western collaborations is long but uneven: many feature credits have felt cosmetic, appended to albums rather than integrated into them. LEMONADE's approach is different. G-Dragon's WDA feature was not a bolted-on signing but a genuine creative alignment between two of Korea's most technically ambitious acts — and the music reflected that. Extending the same intentionality to Becky G and Ty Dolla $ign, each chosen for a specific sonic role on a specific track, suggests a curation strategy rather than a commercial sweep. The result is an album whose feature list reads as a cohesive argument for what aespa is, rather than a catalogue of names assembled for marketing value.

LEMONADE arrives as aespa's most commercially ambitious project yet. Their first full album Armageddon debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 in 2024; the expectation is that LEMONADE, riding the WDA pre-release momentum and the full-reveal feature announcements, will chart higher. The 25-city SYNK: COMPLæXITY World Tour that follows — opening in Seoul on August 7 before moving through Latin America, North America, and Europe — is scaled to arenas, reflecting the commercial trajectory this album is designed to establish. In K-pop's most competitive comeback season of 2026, aespa is making the most internationally scaled play of any group releasing this month.