He’s been hard at work on his first album ever since winning Season 11 of “American Idol,” and finally Phillip Phillips has announced a release date.

The 22-year-old singer will drop The World From The Side of the Moon on November 19th, the same day as Kelly Clarkson’s greatest hits record.

After undergoing quite the risky surgery to remove kidney stones just two weeks ago, Phillip Phillips is getting back to what he loves most: the music.

Last night (June 22), the "American Idol" winner took to his Twitter page showing that he's getting back in the studio writing, "Had a blast in the studio with (musician Ben Neil) today. It's coming along, it's coming along. Yep."

After enduring months of excruciating pain to stay in the competition for season 11 of "American Idol", it looks like Phillip Philips will once again have to delay an extremely important kidney surgery.

Due to massive stones in his right kidney the 21-year-old was set to go under the knife on Wednesday (May 29), but due to a sinus infection that caused him to have a high temperature doctors advised that he delay.