From Cardi B to an Eminem Collab & Troye Sivan, Which New Music Release Is Your Favorite This Week? Vote!
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Remi Wolf, Pitbull and Slayyyter also dropped fresh projects.
It’s a party on the New Music Friday playlist this week, and Troye Sivan leads the way with new albums, while Cardi B and Eminem follow with singles!
The Grammy-nominated Aussie pop phenom dropped his fourth studio album She’s the Best , featuring singles including the title track, the Madonna-interpolating “Party” and the steamy “FF.” Featuring production and songwriting contributions from Jack Antonoff and Finneas, She’s the Best is the follow-up to 2023’s Something to Give Each Other , which spawned the culture-rocking singles “Rush,” “One of Your Girls” and “Got Me Started.”
Two of this week’s buzziest releases come from the hip-hop world. Cardi B — who canceled a stadium-headlining performance in Jamaica just 10 days before showtime on Thursday (Oct. 8) — is the latest artist to hop on the Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack with “Don’t Chart,” marking her second new single of 2026 following “AH HA.” Eminem, on the other hand, appears on Philippines-born rapper Ez Mil’s “Madara” collaboration, which also features Tokyo underground artist Hideyoshi and Neil Kaplan, the voice actor behind Madara Uchiha in the English dub of Naruto . Slim Shady and Ez last linked up on the record on 2023’s “Realest” and the following year’s “Head Honcho” from Em’s Billboard 200 -topping The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) .
Slayyyter dropped the latest taste of her fast-approaching Wor$t Man In America project with the anthemic “I Think He’s Got a Girl,” and Gunna called up tennis superstar Coco Gauff for the official music video for his new single “Pop It.” Music fans also got a new Girl in Red single called “Blue,” which finds the Norwegian singer-songwriter born Marie Ulven releasing her first new solo song of the year.
This New Music Friday also features new tracks by Snoh Aalegra (“Run Free”), BigXThaPlug and Ava Max (“Burn), Offset and Don Toliver (“Every Night”), Armanii (“Second Chance”), Lainey Wilson (“Kinda Love It”), Vince Staples (“Tulsa, OK”), Jessie Reyez and Samara Cyn (“For Sixxx in the Mornin”), Cece Natalie (“Flood Whole Towns”), Parisalexa (“Hold the Light”), Ray Vaughn (“Set It Off”) and Adrian Marcel (“All Day”).
Back on the album side, beloved alt-pop act Remi Wolf shared her third album, Mud , while Billboard cover star Pitbull dropped his first new full-length in three years with Pitcoin . Dawn Richard paid tribute to her hometown of New Orleans with Creole Culture , Joyce Wrice recounted the last half-decade of her personal evolution on Machiko and Sheryl Crow explored the human connection on Pick You Up .
We also scored new projects from Cameron Winter ( Live at Carnegie Hall ), Chase & Status ( Generic Everything ), Girl Ultra with Chromeo ( RRRomeo ), Greta Van Fleet ( Palace for the People ), Ovrkast. ( Striking ), Pet Shop Boys ( A Man from the Future ), Carin León ( MudaH ), FOLA ( 9 ) and Tobe Nwigwe ( The Bridge ).
Which of these songs, EPs and albums are you most excited about this week? Let Billboard know which release will be on repeat this weekend by voting for your favorite in the poll below.
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