The Rolling Stones released “Who You Callin' Crazy” on October 20, 2026, premiering it on BBC Radio 2 with jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine on the track. It is a Jagger and Richards song produced by Andrew Watt, one of five extra recordings on Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips, a deluxe edition due November 27, and the first of its previously unreleased songs to come out.
The date is not an accident of the calendar. Hackney Diamonds, the 2023 album that won the Grammy for best rock album, came out on October 20, 2023. Three years to the day later, a band that formed in 1962 is on its second album with the same producer and still feeding singles into the stream months after the record itself arrived.
What is on “Who You Callin' Crazy”?
Mick Jagger sings and plays electric guitar, with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on electric guitars and Steve Jordan on drums. Watt plays bass and tambourine as well as producing, Matt Clifford handles piano, organ and Rhodes, and Pine takes the saxophone. Serban Ghenea mixed it and Randy Merrill mastered it at Sterling Sound, per the credits printed by Chaoszine.
NME called it a “breezy” single, released with a lyric video. Jagger introduced it himself with a voice note to Radio 2 host Vernon Kay:
It's The Rolling Stones' new single, so I hope you like it.Mick Jagger, voice note to BBC Radio 2, via Far Out
Was it really a surprise?
NME, Far Out and Clash all called it a surprise release, Clash saying it arrived “with no prior warning.” Fans watching closely did have some notice. When the Stones announced Loose Lips on October 14, the song was named in the tracklist with Pine credited, and Louder reported it would be released digitally on Friday, October 16. That Friday brought “Bad Luck Hideaway” to digital platforms instead, per NME, and “Who You Callin' Crazy” landed four days later with a radio premiere and a voice note.
The surprise in a legacy rollout is no longer the song. It is the hour it lands.
That is how the whole Foreign Tongues campaign has run. It opened in April with “Rough and Twisted,” a white-label 12-inch credited to The Cockroaches and limited to 1,000 numbered copies at independent shops, which sold out. The album followed in July, and the drip never stopped.
| Date (2026) | Release |
|---|---|
| Apr 11 | “Rough and Twisted” as The Cockroaches, 1,000 numbered vinyl copies |
| May 5 | “In the Stars” out, Foreign Tongues announced for July 10 |
| Jul 10 | Foreign Tongues, 14 tracks, UK No. 1, No. 7 on the Billboard 200 |
| Oct 1 | “Mr. Charm,” with “Bad Luck Hideaway” reaching streaming |
| Oct 14 | Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips announced |
| Oct 20 | “Who You Callin' Crazy” premieres on BBC Radio 2 |
| Nov 27 | Loose Lips out on vinyl, 2CD and digital |
Why does a 64-year-old band keep dropping songs?
Because the album still has legs and the charts reward it. Foreign Tongues gave the Stones their 15th number one on the UK Official Albums Chart, Reuters reported, drawing them level with The Beatles. In the U.S. it debuted at No. 7, their 39th top-10 album on the Billboard 200, a record. A deluxe edition with new songs gives fans a reason to buy the record twice and gives streaming services a fresh track to put in front of them.
The habits are borrowed from younger acts, a long tail of releases instead of one big date, the same instinct behind Artemas' anti-rollout approach. It also fits a market where older songs now take 45.1% of Spotify's global chart streams: a legacy band's catalog is always playing, and new material has to elbow in beside it.
The band's own pitch for Loose Lips, posted on Facebook and quoted by Louder: “We're talking blues, country and that unmistakable rhythm and Stones sound that we know you love!” The other four tracks include “Where There's A Will,” with Steve Winwood on organ, and “Bad Luck Hideaway,” a Jagger and Richards duet with the late Charlie Watts on drums.
Will the Stones tour it?
Not yet. NME reports no live shows are planned, Richards has not been able to commit to a full-scale tour, and Jagger has said shows will “hopefully” come in 2027. Wood told NME he is ready: “When my compadres say, 'Let's go', I'll be ready.” Until then, the releases are the tour.