The Latest is the sixteenth studio album by the American hard rock and power pop band Cheap Trick, released on June 23, 2009.

The album was produced by Cheap Trick, Julian Raymond, and Howard Willing and was issued on CD, as well as limited pressings on vinyl and 8-track tape.

The track "Sleep Forever" was written in memory of a friend who died,[7] "Miss Tomorrow" was originally a B-side from Robin Zander's eponymous 1993 solo album, taken from the "Show Me Heaven" single,[8] while "Sick Man of Europe" was one of the band names used by Nielsen and Petersson in the early 1970s.

"Everyday You Make Me Crazy" was originally written by the band as a Pepsi jingle from 1995[9] while "Alive" is a re-worked version of "What's in It for You", an outtake from the band's previous 2006 album Rockford.

The album has sold 24,000 copies in the United States as of March 2016.