Billboard’s Friday Music Information serves as a useful information to this Friday’s most important releases — the important thing music that everybody might be speaking about at present, and that might be dominating playlists this weekend and past.
This week (July 28), Olivia Rodrigo exhibits listeners she’s obtained the Guts along with her sophomore LP, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion crew up once more to recapture that outdated “WAP” magic, Tyler Childers and d4vd hold it transient and extra.
Olivia Rodrigo, Guts
There may not be a extra anticipated sophomore LP launched in 2023 than Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts, follow-up to her game-changing Bitter launch two years earlier. Whereas the album was preceded by a pair of high 10 hits within the bloody ballad “Vampire” and the winking new-waver “Unhealthy Concept Proper?” Guts exhibits these songs to be simply two of many new profession highlights, together with the shuffling, double-meaning pop-rock singalong “Get Him Again!” and the heartbroken (however responsibility-splitting) “Logical.” Learn our record of each monitor ranked right here, and sit up for spending a whole lot of time with these songs in your life over the remainder of the yr.
Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion, “Bongos”
They made magic as soon as earlier than with the Sizzling 100-topping “WAP,” and now rap titans Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have reunited for one more club-killing collab with the appropriately hard-hitting “Bongos.” It’s one other enjoyable, frisky teamup with one other colourful, choreo-heavy video — hopefully with much less ridiculous controversy surrounding it this time — that ought to prolong the summer time for at the very least one other week or two previous Labor Day by itself. Ensure you stick round for Cardi’s late-song callback to Pitbull and Lil Jon’s underrated 2005 hit “Toma.”
Tyler Childers, Rustin’ within the Rain EP
The timing couldn’t be higher for a full-length Tyler Childers launch, coming off not solely the nice reception for his personal Sizzling 100-debuting new single “In Your Love,” however the large, chart-topping success of fellow Americana purveyors Zach Bryan and Oliver Anthony Music. You possibly can perhaps argue the true “full-length” {qualifications} of Rustin’ within the Rain — it’s seven tracks and 28 minutes, which is simply barely out of EP territory — however what’s right here ought to nonetheless be a lot to maintain the singer-songwriter’s ever-growing fanbase glad, together with “Love,” the rollicking title monitor, and a strong cowl of the Kris Kristofferson-penned nation staple “Assist Me Make It By means of the Evening.”
D4vd, The Misplaced Petals
Teenage singer-songwriter D4vd grew to become each a viral phenomenon and a Sizzling 100-charting artist in late 2022 and early 2023 along with his gauzy breakthrough hits “Romantic Murder” and “Right here With Me.” Along with his two EP releases this yr — the beforehand launched Petals to Thorns and this week’s bonus follow-up Misplaced Petals — he’s displaying that these singles have been actually just the start, with each his songwriting and his sonics persevering with to develop at a fast charge. Strive the delicate, Joji-like piano balladry of “Poetic Vulgarity” from this one, or the Mac DeMarco-worthy wooziness of closing groover “As soon as Extra.”
Marshmello & Dove Cameron, “Different Boys”
Shout out to Australian home duo Flight Amenities and singer-songwriter Giselle, whose sublimely longing 2010 collaboration “Crave You” was considered one of nice understated pop gems of its period. Exterior of the Land Down Underneath, the track was hardly an enormous mainstream hit — however two artists evidently nonetheless conversant in its charms are DJ/producer Marshmello and breakout singer-songwriter Dove Cameron, who refashion the track’s refrain into the spine of the hook to their new joint single “Different Boys.” There’s not a ton to the track as soon as they get previous the carry — at a scant 2:17, there’s not a complete lot of track right here, interval — but it surely’s a enjoyable flashback for these of us nonetheless craving extra floor-fillers like “Crave You.”
The Rolling Stones, “Offended”
One of many biggest rock and roll bands of all time — and possibly the longest-enduring — is again. Hackney Diamonds, due in late October, would be the Rolling Stones’ first album since 2016’s covers set Blue and Lonesome, and their first because the loss of life of longtime drummer Charlie Watts. The LP is led by the ripping new single “Offended,” showcasing the group nonetheless in nice kind sixty years after their debut album — and nonetheless a lot very important for the youthful era(s). In fact, it by no means hurts to have one of many largest younger actresses in your music video, because the Stones present with their casting of Euphoria and White Lotus star Sydney Sweeney within the “Offended” visible.
