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, Normani’s debut album is in the end with us, as are new units from Don Toliver and NxWorries, and a brand new Father’s Day-ready LP from Luke Combs. Try all of this week’s picks beneath.
Normani, Dopamine
That’s proper, everybody: We made it to Normani launch week. After years of teases, delays and false begins, the 5H alum’s impossibly lengthy awaited solo debut album Dopamine is lastly right here. The 13-track affair, that includes pre-release singles just like the Cardi B teamup “Wild Aspect” and “1:59” with Gunna, is an impressively tight affair, with its greatest thrills together with the Slim Thug pattern (by way of Mike Jones’ “Nonetheless Tippin’”) on “Nonetheless,” the shredding guitar solo late in “Insomnia,” the skipping home beat on “Take My Time” and naturally the Billboard shoutout on the album-opening “Massive Boy.” Solely her longtime followers can actually decide whether or not the set was definitely worth the wait, but it surely’s a welcome hear this Friday regardless.
Tommy Richman, “Satan Is a Lie”
For those who’ve lastly gotten your fill of breakthrough hit “Million Greenback Child” — unlikely, given how the music remains to be hanging across the prime 5 of the Billboard Scorching 100 — breakout singer-rapper Tommy Richman is again this week with its follow-up. “Satan Is a Lie” is intoxicating in lots of the similar methods “Child” was, along with his buttery falsetto floating over clear, throwback-tinged trap-n-B beats, and a refrain hook (“I’m not no Travis, child, not no Chase B/ I work too arduous, are you able to f–kin’ pay me?”) that ought to do massive enterprise on TikTok. We’ll see whether or not it’s sufficient to disqualify Richman from one-hit surprise standing in his first post-“Million” strive, but it surely actually appears like one other potential smash.
Luke Combs, Fathers and Sons
Completely satisfied Father’s Day from Luke Combs! The nation famous person introduced his new album, Fathers and Sons, only a week in the past, planning it for launch simply earlier than the patriarch-celebrating vacation. The album, which was previewed final Friday (June 7) by the advance single “The Man He Sees in Me,” is a predictably emotional and heartfelt set of tributes to his two sons Tex Lawrence Combs and Beau Lee Combs, in addition to to his personal father, Chester Combs. Touching (and infrequently tear-jerking) stuff, after all — although a few of us preferring the less-sentimental model of Combs could persist with his booming Twisters: The Album soundtrack hit “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” when constructing our summer time playlists.
Don Toliver, Hardstone Psycho
The Cactus Jack lieutenant is again along with his fourth studio album of booming entice beats and piercing R&B vocals. Don Toliver‘s Hardstone Psycho is split into 4 sections of 4 tracks every, and options the advance singles (and Billboard Scorching 100 hits) “Bandit” and “Angle” (that includes Charlie Wilson, Money Cobain and a intelligent pattern of Pharrell’s hook from Snoop Dogg’s “Lovely”). Further visitors embody Future and Metro Boomin on “Purple Rain,” label boss Travis Scott on “Ice Age” and Kodak Black on album spotlight “Brother Stone,” whereas different impressed samples embody a pitched-up Whitney Houston singing “Exhale (Shoop, Shoop)” on “Glock.”
Pharrell, “Double Life”
Pharrell plus the Despicable Me franchise all the time equals pure pop soundtrack gold, proper? Perhaps, although this new entry from the upcoming Despicable Me 4 movie most likely doesn’t fairly sound like what you’d count on: “Double Life” rides a grungy guitar riff, sharp refrain harmonies and an action-packed bridge to possibly essentially the most dramatically high-stakes Pharrell soundtrack single but. “It doesn’t matter to you for those who get heads or tails/ You simply don’t just like the flip on a regular basis,” a double-tracked P belts on the refrain, sounding extra like he’s making an attempt to match “One Evening in Bangkok” than “Completely satisfied.”
NxWorries, Why Lawd?
Sure, it’s the return of the different superduo that includes R&B critics’ darling Anderson .Paak. We haven’t gotten a full-length undertaking from NxWorries, which pairs .Paak with underground favourite hip-hop producer Knxwledge, since 2016 — with .Paak additionally experiencing pop stardom within the interim as half of Silk Sonic with Bruno Mars. The brand new undertaking Why Lawd? won’t expertise that degree of chart-topping success, but it surely must be a pleasure for longtime followers of the producer and singer-songwriter — with its 19 tracks of chill grooves additionally soundtrack from massive names like H.E.R., Earl Sweatshirt, Snoop Dogg and naturally R&B legend Charlie Wilson, who seems to be completely in every single place in 2024.