Spears has been dropping hints via online postings about the project for weeks, according to ABC radio. They report that she has been posting photos from the studio and using the hashtag #B9, assumed to refer to her ninth studio album.

On Monday, she stopped hinting and directly confirmed that she is recording a new album. She posted a studio photo with songwriters Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter with the caption "Working hard and hardly working...new album...wheeeee!"