Soundtrack single teased

Lady Gaga and Doechii didn’t just tease a soundtrack cut for The Devil Wears Prada 2. “Runway” is already out as a 2-minute single on Apple Music dated April 10, 2026, which means the movie campaign moved from trailer hint to full release before the film’s May 1 opening. (music.apple.com) 20th Century Studios lists The Devil Wears Prada 2 for an exclusive theatrical release on May 1, 2026, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci returning under director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna. That gives the song a job beyond streaming: it is arriving in the final three weeks before the sequel hits theaters. (20thcenturystudios.com) The title “Runway” is doing double duty. In fashion, a runway is the catwalk, and in this franchise Runway is also the magazine where Miranda Priestly ruled and Andy Sachs once worked, so the song name plugs directly into the movie’s world instead of feeling bolted on. (yahoo.com) The sequel itself is built around that same magazine. Early plot descriptions say Andy returns to Runway while Miranda Priestly tries to keep her footing in a changed media business, which makes a glossy pop single named after the publication feel like part of the movie’s premise, not just its playlist. (wikipedia.org, imdb.com) The collaboration is also unusual on its own terms. Consequence reported that “Runway” is the first recorded collaboration between Lady Gaga and Doechii, and that Bruno Mars and Andrew Watt are in the writing and production credits, which stacks a film tie-in with four current pop names at once. (consequence.net) That matters because The Devil Wears Prada started as a 2006 movie about magazine power, not as a music franchise. A sequel opening in 2026 has to sell itself to people who remember the first film and to younger listeners who follow Doechii, Gaga, Bruno Mars, or Andrew Watt more closely than they follow Miranda Priestly. (20thcenturystudios.com, consequence.net) The studio is pairing that music push with a late trailer blitz. Billboard reported this week that the new trailer used “Runway” as the hook, so the song is functioning like a perfume sample at a department-store counter: you hear it first, and then you are supposed to walk toward the product. (billboard.com) The timing suggests confidence. Deadline reported on April 10 that early tracking had The Devil Wears Prada 2 headed for a domestic opening above $66 million, which means the soundtrack single is not rescuing a weak launch so much as pouring more fuel on a release that was already testing strongly. (deadline.com) So the story here is not just that two stars made a song. It is that a sequel to a 2006 fashion movie is being sold in 2026 with a modern pop package: legacy cast on the poster, a fresh trailer in circulation, and a single called “Runway” arriving just before opening weekend. (20thcenturystudios.com, music.apple.com, billboard.com)