Billboard’s Friday Music Information serves as a helpful information to this Friday’s most important releases — the important thing music that everybody will likely be speaking about right this moment, and that will likely be dominating playlists this weekend and past.
This week, Beyoncé welcomes us into her “Home,” Tyla continues her rise and Jung Kook faucets a famous person for a brand new remix. Try all of this week’s picks under:
Beyoncé, “My Home”
“Ooooh, who they got here to see?” a swath of voices calls for, as Beyoncé new shock single “My Home” begins. The reply, in fact, is Queen Bey: to cap off a 12 months marked by a mega-selling world tour, and on the event of her live performance documentary Renaissance: A Movie By Beyoncé hitting theaters, the famous person has gifted followers with a propulsive thank-you that’s each assertive and welcoming. “My Home” bottles the boisterous power of final 12 months’s Renaissance album, however Bey’s supply comes nearer to the roof-rattling rap-sing sneer of a music like “7/11,” permitting the music’s construction shape-shift round her however by no means letting the listener overlook whose home it’s.
Tyla, “Reality or Dare”
In the identical week that Tyla’s invigorating single “Water” hit the highest 10 of the Sizzling 100 and the South African star introduced the upcoming launch of a self-titled debut album, she additionally tided followers over for the 2024 full-length with three new songs, highlighted by the bubbling anthem “Reality or Dare.” As “Water” demonstrated, Tyla is aware of exactly the best way to deploy a clipped, arresting hook — and when the chorus of “Reality or Dare” kicks in across the 1 minute 15 second mark, the music levitates, and begs to be positioned in a number of of your playlists.
Jung Kook feat. Usher, “Standing Subsequent to You” remix
“Standing Subsequent to You” feels like a smash, from an artist who is aware of about such issues: a centerpiece of Jung Kook’s latest album Golden, the trendy dance-pop monitor synthesizes the glossy hooks of his BTS work and pairs them with Jung Kook’s engrossing persona and vocal energy. The music peaked at No. 5 on the Sizzling 100 upon its launch, however this new remix with Usher, which introduces a legendary hit-maker to its disco-bounce ecosystem, may maintain an prolonged chart run; there’s most likely not sufficient time for Ursh to bust this one out throughout his upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency, however you by no means know, proper?
Dove Cameron, Alchemical: Quantity 1
Dove Cameron has stated that Alchemical: Quantity 1, the primary half of her debut album, represents “a report from the void of my very own private expertise with love, intercourse, loss, trauma, darkness and ultimately transformation and therapeutic,” a declaration that reaffirms the “Boyfriend” singer’s dedication to approaching pop past radio fodder. Whereas Alchemical: Quantity 1 consists of Cameron’s beforehand launched singles, new tracks just like the haunting “God’s Sport” and the head-nodding “White Glove” counsel that the rising star’s self-exploration will comprise surprising sonic multitudes when totally realized.
ATEEZ, THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL
As ATEEZ closes the e-book on a 12 months of sprawling exhibits and kinetic performances, THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL captures the Ok-pop group’s capacity to by no means let its viewers’s consideration flag for even a number of seconds: each inch of the album is crammed with percussive breakdowns, rap verses springing into melodic hooks and cleanly delivered interaction between the assorted group members. After THE WORLD EP.2 : OUTLAW reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart earlier this 12 months, ATEEZ is hoping to shut out 2023 on a excessive be aware, and artistically, they get there.
Editor’s Choose: Lana Del Rey, “Take Me House, Nation Roads”
Lana Del Rey will enter 2024 with 5 Grammy nominations — together with an album of the 12 months nod for her sprawling studio set Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd — and can be featured on a pair of different album of the 12 months nominees, Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Jon Batiste’s World Music Radio. Her previous has been rightly lauded, however earlier than she closes the books on 2023, Del Rey has unveiled a smoky, heartfelt tackle a John Denver traditional: her rendition of “Take Me House, Nation Roads” exists as the very best kind of canopy music, underlining the great thing about the unique composition whereas including her personal steely dynamism into the combination.