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| Released | 20 June 2025 | |||
| Genre | Hip-hop | |||
| Length | 37:44 | |||
| Labels | Island EMI | |||
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Hopefully! (stylised as hopefully !) is the fourth studio album by English hip-hop artist Loyle Carner. It was released on 20 June 2025 through Virgin EMI Records and features guest appearances from Navy Blue and Nick Hakim.
Hopefully! comes after Loyle Carner's critically acclaimed 2022 album, Hugo. On 9 April 2025, Loyle Carner released the double single "All I Need / In My Mind". On 23 April, he announced the album's title and release date. The following day, he announced a world tour in support of the album.
On 6 May 2025, Loyle Carner released another double single, "About Time / Lyin". The self-directed music video for "Lyin" was released on 20 May 2025. In an interview with Billboard, Loyle Carner discussed how becoming a father of two has shaped his creative process and influenced the themes of fatherhood and personal growth on Hopefully!.
The final single, "Time to Go", was released on 16 June 2025. That same day, the tracklist of the album was revealed.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.8/10 |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Clash | 8/10 |
| DIY | |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | |
| The Line of Best Fit | 8/10 |
Upon release, Hopefully! was met with widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 9 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Peter Martin of DIY called the album "as moving as it is musically satisfying". Writing in The Guardian, Rachel Aroesti described Carner's songwriting as "magical", and said Hopefully! is his "most impressive work to date". Liberty Dunworth of NME wrote that on the album Loyle Carner "broadens his horizons", and that "this isn't just Loyle Carner at his most refined, it is the start of a new chapter". Aimee Phillips of Clash commented that "while 'hopefully!' is thematically rich, it’s not adventurous sonically" and that it "isn't trying to be groundbreaking. It's trying to be honest". Reviewing the album for The Line of Best Fit, Riley Moquin wrote that "vocally, the rapper pushes his boundaries more than perhaps ever before".
In its first charting week, Hopefully! opened at number-two on the UK Albums Chart with sales of 17,245, marking it his highest-charting album in the country.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Feel at Home" |
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| 2:34 |
| 2. | "In My Mind" |
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| 4:09 |
| 3. | "All I Need" |
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| 3:33 |
| 4. | "Lyin" |
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| 3:58 |
| 5. | "Time to Go" |
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| 3:29 |
| 6. | "Horcrux" |
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| 3:30 |
| 7. | "Strangers" |
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| 2:35 |
| 8. | "Hopefully !" (with Benjamin Zephaniah) |
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| 2:51 |
| 9. | "Purpose" (with Navy Blue) |
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| 3:17 |
| 10. | "Don't Fix It" (with Nick Hakim) |
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| 4:24 |
| 11. | "About Time" |
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| 3:18 |
| Total length: | 37:44 | |||
Credits adapted from Tidal.
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 43 |
| Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) | 7 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 5 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 150 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 13 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 17 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA) | 52 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) | 29 |
| Scottish Albums (Official Charts) | 4 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 31 |
| UK Albums (Official Charts) | 2 |
| UK R&B Albums (Official Charts) | 1 |