New Music Friday: Listen To Releases From j-hope, Doja Cat & Jack Harlow, Stray Kids, And More

Major names dominate the release calendar this week, with hotly anticipated collaborations, comebacks and album announcements all making waves amid the whirlpool of new releases.

Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco unveil their collaborative album I Said I Love You First, while Argentinian band TRÍADA drop their debut EP De Versiones y Alma and My Morning Jacket release their eleventh album, is.

Plus, Jessica Simpson makes her long-awaited return to music with EP Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1; Michelle Zauner serves up Japanese Breakfast's highly anticipated follow-up to 2021's Jubilee with the winkingly titled For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women); Tauren Wells offers his fourth EP, Let the Church Sing; and John Splithoff unveils his latest set, Far From Here. And on the singles front, Ozuna offers his first solo track of 2025 with "La Nena," MARINA continues the rollout of her upcoming sixth studio album with the lovestruck "CUPID'S GIRL," and Hudson Westbrook curses the "Weatherman" in his new breakup song.

Below, press play on 10 more exciting new releases including new tracks from j-hope, Jonas Brothers and Morgan Wallen, a Stray Kids mini-album, a surprising pivot into gospel from Big Freedia and more.

Two weeks after wishing ARMY "Sweet Dreams" with Miguel, j-hope doubles down with follow-up single "MONA LISA." The BTS member plays casanova on the smooth and sexy R&B groove as he sings, "I like my girls pretty, so fine/ One plus the nine/ How you get me goin'/ Might just blow it/ I like my girls pretty in the face/ Art piece to frame/ Mona, Mona Lisa/ Yeah, I need ya."

The swaggering jam — which Hobi premiered live during the first night of his 'HOPE ON THE STAGE' U.S. solo tour in Brooklyn, New York, on March 13 — comes complete with a dance-heavy music video. Fittingly filmed in an airy art museum, the clip sees the K-pop idol sporting a leather jacket by Louis Vuitton, backwards hat and glittery jeans.

Jonas Brothers go full '80s power ballad on "Love Me To Heaven," a single celebrating Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas' 20th anniversary as a band.

Arriving just in time for the inaugural JonasCon this Sunday — not to mention Nick's return to Broadway in the long-awaited revival of "The Last Five Years" — the track puts the siblings' relationship with their loyal fans into words. "I could be down, but you love me to heaven/ Love me to heaven, babe," they belt in between metaphors about microdosing and mentions of the Northern Lights.

Stray Kids' latest mini album, Mixtape : dominATE, gives all eight members of the K-pop boy band a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.

Following confident opener "GIANT," the five-track project pairs off the idols for four different duets. Changbin and I.N turn the energy up to eleven with the high-octane, pop-punk-fueled "Burnin' Tires" before HAN and Felix slow things down on thoughtful rap "Truman." Then, Bang Chan and Hyunjin find "ESCAPE" from reality over a booming beat drop before Lee Know and Seungmin finish the mini-album off in epic fashion with "CINEMA."

"I wish it was just us in this b—," Jack Harlow tells Doja Cat at the outset of their flirtatious new collaboration, "Just Us." The two rappers trade sexually charged rhymes, with Harlow throwing down a clever reference Disney Channel classic "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" before the Scarlet 2 CLAUDE songstress gets downright NSFW with her bold response.

And despite the wishful hook, the two artists are surrounded by a who's who of famous faces in the track's accompanying music video directed by Neal Farmer. As they play cat and mouse throughout an L.A. hotspot, everyone from John Mayer, Matt Damon and "Succession" breakout Nicholas Braun to PinkPantheress, Malcolm Todd and sports reporter Taylor Rooks make cameos around the restaurant.

Morgan Wallen announced the May 16 release date for upcoming fourth album, I'm The Problem, on March 20, but fans only had to wait less than 24 hours for the arrival of dual singles "I'm a Little Crazy" and "Just In Case."

On the former ballad, the country star calls himself a "red letter rebel" in his signature twang before lamenting, "I'm a little crazy, but the world's insane." Meanwhile, on the latter, he engages in some "midnight movin' on" in an attempt to get over a broken heart. With its illustrated cover art, I'm The Problem is expected to also contain previously released singles "Lies Lies Lies," "Love Somebody," "Smile" and the title track.

Half a decade and three LPs after releasing his 2019 sophomore album, I'm Him, Kevin Gates drops its sequel project, the appropriately titled I'm Him 2. The follow-up to 2024's The Ceremony opens with the lone collaboration on the album, the Lingo-assisted "Therapy Sessions," before giving way to highlights like "Big Bruddah (Don't Be Mad," "Block Away" and "Be Somebody."

Two days before the album's unveiling on March 19, focus track "Right Where I'm Supposed to Be" received the music video treatment with a clip that opens with the admonition: "WATCH UNTIL THE END" in stark capital letters. Flanked by a pair of video vixens toting guns and carrying cash, the rapper makes the promised payoff worth it by announcing plans for another highly anticipated follow-up: Luca Brasi 4.

Big Freedia — "Take My Hand"

Taking the stage at SXSW on March 13, Big Freedia turned the popular annual Austin, Tex.-based event into a praiseworthy worship service with an electrifying performance of her new single "Take My Hand."

The queen of bounce takes all her divas and non-believers to church on the upbeat track by pronouncing, "Come to the Queendom/ You've got the freedom to make you scream and shout!" The single is just the first taste of Big Freedia's upcoming gospel project, which she teased on social media by telling fans, "My music has always spread messages of love, joy, freedom, and inclusivity. This project is no different."

mgk honors the memory of his late friend Luke "Dingo" Trembath on his emotional new single "your name forever." (The Australian snowboarder tragically and unexpectedly passed away earlier this month at the age of 38.) The rap-rocker processes his longtime pal's untimely death with urgency, singing, "Tell me, did you know it was time/ To say goodbye?/ Tell me, did the heavens align/ Where angels fly?/ What happened, what happened/ When you kissed the sky?/ Tell me did you know it was time/ To say goodbye?"

The hard-charging track features contributions from plenty of Trembath's other rocker friends — including Mod Sun, M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold and Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes on backing vocals as well as Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates on guitar. Meanwhile the accompanying music video shows off black-clad mourners releasing doves in front of a giant mural dedicated to Trembath, and emotional archival footage of candid moments captured over the years between the "Danny and the Dingo" star and mgk.

Following a breakout 2024 that included the release of their self-titled debut album and a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best New Artist, rising Latin trio DARUMAS unveiled their first new song of 2025, the funky "Puerto Abierta."

The horn-blasted bilingual track (whose title translates to "Open Door" in English) puts Ceci Leon's lithe vocals right in the groove of Aldana Aguirre's bassline as she sings, "Maybe we should try and see/ Hay un vino por abrir/ I can mess you up for free/ Te dejé la puerta abierta." To celebrate the song's release, the all-female band are set to hit the stage at Lollapalooza Argentina Friday night; the group made their North American festival debut at last year's Outside Lands.

Noah Cyrus joins forces with Fleet Foxes on the tender, earthy "Don't Put It All On Me." The harmony-laden ballad serves as Cyrus' first release since 2024's "Porcupine Tattoo" with Everything is Recorded and Bill Callahan, as well as the indie folk band's follow-up to their 2024 live album Live on Boston Harbor.

"The Holy Ghost, he only knows/ As much as you're willing to tell/ Don't need to remind you/ But sometimes I like to/ Just so you how how I felt/ Oh, don't put it all on me/ Oh, don't put it all on me," Cyrus and Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold croon in tandem, while the accompanying Luis Villanueva-directed music video features the "Noah (Stand Still)" singer waking up in a misty forest filled with white stallions, butterflies and, yes, a skulk of foxes.