R&B singer Frank Ocean has finally released his long-awaited new studio album.

His 17-track record Blonde arrived on Apple Music just days after Ocean released a 45-minute visual album called Endless.

It marks the follow-up to his 2012 debut Channel Orange, which scored two Grammy Awards and huge critical success.

The album has been anticipated by fans since late July when news of the impending release was revealed in the New York Times, shortly after Apple Music hosted a livestream on Frank’s website.

rank Ocean with the International Male award in the press room at the 2013 Brit Awards at the O2 Arena, London.(Ian West/PA)

It was further teased when Frank posted a picture of a library book slip showing a range of potential “due dates” and a video of him constructing a spiral staircase.

The album has been released with an accompanying glossy magazine, Boys Don’t Cry, available from a pop-up shop on London’s Charlotte Street, as well as locations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The magazine contains a hard copy of Blonde, according to Billboard, as well as a spread of fashion photographs, poems by Ocean, short stories, an outline for a television show and interviews with his collaborators Lil B and Om’Mas Keith.

Rapper Kanye West, who also has a pop-up shop in London, has contributed a poem about McDonald’s to the magazine.

Credits on the album include the Beatles, Beyonce, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Jamie xx, Kanye, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams.