Megan Moroney Is Officially in Her Cloud 9 Era — New Album, $9 Pop-Up Shows, and a Massive Arena Tour Ahead

Country star Megan Moroney is having one of the biggest weeks of her career. The Georgia native dropped her third studio album "Cloud 9" on Friday, February 20, 2026, via Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records — and she's backing it with one of the savviest fan-first rollout strategies country music has seen in years, including surprise $9 pop-up shows, star-studded collaborations, and a massive international arena tour launching this spring.

Cloud 9: What's on the Album

Megan Moroney's Cloud 9 clocks in at 15 tracks and represents the most sonically expansive chapter yet of her career — confident, sharply written, and built on the same autobiographical honesty that made her first two albums resonate so widely. She described this record as coming from "the strongest, most confident version of myself I've ever been."

The album's two biggest collaboration reveals have set social media on fire:

Ed Sheeran — fans had long hoped for this pairing, and Moroney confirmed it with visible excitement, saying she hates keeping secrets and was thrilled to finally share the news.

Kacey Musgraves — Moroney described landing Musgraves as "the Super Bowl," adding: "It's such a compliment that someone like her didn't change a syllable, she didn't change a word, she didn't change the song. She sang it exactly how it was." Moroney had initially described the outreach as "a total Hail Mary," not expecting Musgraves to have time — and was floored when she said yes.

The track "Who Hurt You?" is already generating the most fan investigation online, with listeners parsing specific imagery and emotional detail for clues about its real-life inspiration.

The $9 Pop-Up Show Strategy — Genius Fan Marketing

To celebrate the album's release and its "9" theme, Megan Moroney launched a "9 Cities, 9 Days" tour of surprise, ultra-intimate pop-up shows with tickets priced at just $9. In Richmond, Virginia, thousands of fans with hot drinks and warm blankets packed Broad Street in downtown before sunrise Saturday for a chance at $9 tickets to her intimate acoustic set at The National.

The shows featured a three-song acoustic set and exclusive limited merchandise including Cloud 9 vinyl, CDs, and numbered wristbands. Tickets were strictly limited to two per person — both guests required to be present — and sold only at the venue box office day-of. A portion of proceeds benefit The Megan Moroney Foundation, supporting mental health and anti-bullying initiatives. Fans lined up sharing personal stories about mental health struggles and losses to suicide, crediting Moroney's music and mission as meaningful to them.

The Cloud 9 Tour: From Intimate to Arena Scale

Once the pop-up run wraps, Megan Moroney goes big. The Cloud 9 Tour is a 43-date international headline run beginning May 29, 2026 in Columbus, Ohio. The full tour hits some of the largest venues in North America and Europe:

It is her biggest headline tour to date — a clear statement that Megan Moroney has graduated from breakout act to top-line arena headliner.

Moroney This Week: Backstage Country Co-Host

This week, Megan Moroney is also serving as guest co-host on Backstage Country alongside Elaina Smith, spending the full week pulling back the curtain on the making of Cloud 9, the stories behind the songs, and what this new confident era means for her as an artist. Smith described "6 Months Later" as the song that ushered in Moroney's new era — a track Moroney said she wrote in the middle of the ocean, then scrambled to record immediately after teasing it online.

With Cloud 9 already out, the pop-up buzz still spreading city to city, and one of country music's most anticipated arena tours on deck, Megan Moroney is engineering a career moment that is both massive in scale and remarkably personal in execution.