Temperatures may still be cold, but the music industry is red hot! Superstars and rising artists alike are unveiling anticipated albums, dropping incredible songs and launching thrilling new musical eras.
Fans can dive into new studio sets like Sam Fender's People Watching, Mike Posner's The Beginning, BlocBoy JB's The Purple M&M 2, Kameron Marlowe's Sad Songs For the Soul, and Dave East & Ransom's The Final Call. There's also plenty of exciting new tracks to put on repeat, including Coco Jones' "Taste," Russell Dickerson's "Happen To Me" and Burna Boy's "Update," as well as cool collabs like Ashley Cooke and Joe Jonas' "All I Forgot" and Don Tolliver, Speedy, j-hope, and Pharrell Williams' "LV Bag."
Elsewhere, Mt. Joy, KALEO and Tucker Wetmore each delivered the first tastes of their respective new albums arriving later this spring; Carly Pearce announced a deluxe version of her latest album, hummingbird, with a powerful song called "no rain"; and the Yellowjackets commemorated more than 4 decades as a group with their twenty-eighth album, Fasten Up.
Below, press play on other major releases to warm up your winter from the likes of JENNIE & Doechii, Tate McRae, Selena Gomez and benny blanco with Gracie Abrams, MARINA, Imagine Dragons and more.
Over the last four months, JENNIE's rollout for her forthcoming debut solo album, Ruby, has been a nonstop showcase of swaggering versatility — and girl power anthem "ExtraL" shows off yet another side of the K-pop idol's multifaceted vision.
JENNIE kicks off the track by hyping up her girl squad and declaring, "Said, 'F— your rules' is the mood, damn right/ Walk in a room and I set the vibe." Naturally, the song kicks into another gear when Doechii gleefully announces her arrival to the party at the 1:15 mark, and proceeds to demand, "Gimme chi, gimme purr, gimme meow, gimme her/ Gimme funds, gimme fight, gimme nerve/ Gimme c—, let me serve."
The Swamp Princess' unforgettable performance at the 2025 GRAMMYs was a potent reminder — or introduction for new fans — that she hardly needs permission to serve. But the banger turns into much more than a well-deserved victory lap as she and the BLACKPINK idol play off one another and prove once again that, yes, ladies do in fact run this.
Tate McRae shot to It Girl status in late 2023 thanks to hits like "greedy" and "exes," both of which anchored her hit sophomore album THINK LATER. Now, less than 18 months later, the Canadian pop starlet is striking while the iron's hot by dropping her third studio album, So Close To What.
The hotly anticipated LP has already come complete with a trio of sultry, dance-ready singles (and scintillating music video treatments) in the form of "It's ok I'm ok," "2 hands" and "Sports car," but McRae further earns her Gen Z pop star bonafides with standout album cuts like unapologetically territorial opener "Miss possessive," "Revolving door" and the Flo Milli-assisted "bloodonmyhands." The singer also puts her personal life front and center by recruiting boyfriend The Kid LAROI for the flirtatious, at times explicit duet "I know love," which is practically guaranteed to send fans of the couple into a frenzy.
Just days after claiming on her press tour for the Oscar-nominated Emilia Perez that it would "be very hard for me to ever go back to music," Selena Gomez did precisely that by announcing I Said I Love You First, a collaborative album with her new fiancé, benny blanco. The first taste of the project arrived upon the album announcement ("Scared Of Loving You"), and just one week later, the couple already delivered another — this time, with the help of Gracie Abrams.
"Call Me When You Break Up" finds the two raven-haired pop stars biding their sweet time as they wait for a paramour to finally see the light and move on from the wrong relationship. At just 2:08, the winking track — built on blanco's bouncing production — may feel more like a sonic apéritif than a lead single, but it'll certainly have Selenators' mouths watering for what else is in store.
Mumford & Sons frontload their forthcoming fifth studio album, RUSHMERE, with another dose of folksy vulnerability in the form of second single "Malibu."
Whereas lead single "Rushmere" was propulsive and virtually crackling with anticipation, its rousing follow-up offers the band — now a trio following the 2021 departure of banjo player Winston Marshall — a moment of much-needed catharsis as road-weary frontman Marcus Mumford wails, "You are all I want/ You're all I need/ And I'll find peace beneath the shadow of your wings" in his trademark growl.
MARINA is finally ready to emerge from her self-imposed chrysalis with a new era of music. Four years after 2021's superb Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, the Welsh pop chanteuse (and newly published author of the poetry collection Eat the World) is on a journey of transformation, as evidenced by lead single "BUTTERFLY."
Channeling the radical self-assurance and piercing lyricism of fan-favorite projects like 2009's The Family Jewels and 2012's Electra Heart, the song takes flight as MARINA vows, "No longer a baby, yeah, I been around/ I can see how people like to move in this town/ Trust no b—, even people that you love/ I can flip a switch quicker than a blade does."
It may not be festival season just yet, but SAINt JHN transports listeners from the depths of winter onto their favorite festival grounds with his fourth full-length, FESTIVAL SEASON.
Preceded by singles "Glitching," "Body On Me" and "Poppin," the 18-track album turns the Guyanese-American rapper's bombastic rhymes and emotions up to eleven — whether he's wilding out on "Guyanese Moshpit," name-dropping designer brands on "Pay For Pucci," or searching for a distraction on "Whose Ex-Wife Is This." But it's when SAINt JHN drops the party-ready persona on moving cuts like opener "Never Met Superman" and highlight "Fvck being SAD" where his humanity shines through to maximum impact.
Imagine Dragons are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their smash 2015 sophomore album, Smoke + Mirrors. But rather than drop a typical commemorative re-release, the GRAMMY-winning rockers reached deep into the vault to put together Reflections, a 14-track companion album filled with previously unreleased demos from the Smoke + Mirrors sessions.
Not only does the celebratory project give fans a new album of never-before-heard music, it provides an even deeper look into frontman Dan Reynolds' prolific songwriting prowess and willingness to experiment — whether he's chasing the unattainable on the skittering "The Ghost Intervention," crafting sunny surf rock onto a Western motif on the blissed out "Cowboy," or diving into the groove of French-tinged disco on standout "Monica." Naturally, the LP ends with a demo version of "I Bet My Life," transforming Smoke + Mirrors' biggest hit into a stripped-down folk anthem.
Last year saw Nate Smith team up with Avril Lavigne for not one, but two songs, "Can You Die From a Broken Heart" and "Bulletproof." So it was only fitting for the chart-topping country singer to kick off his 2025 releases with a big-time collaboration: the HARDY-assisted "Nobody Likes Your Girlfriend."
The two country stars are out to save a pal (played by "The King of Queens" star Kevin James in the track's music video) from the clutches of a terrible girlfriend. She may be controlling and she can't be trusted, but she makes for an awfully fun musical intervention as Smith and HARDY lay down some hard truths: "I know she's got you in a love drunk whirlwind/ But man to man, nobody likes your girlfriend."
Ana Tijoux offers up dual singles "Serpiente de madera" and "Muévelo" for a one-two punch of rhythm and lyrics. The songs, which translate to "Wooden Serpent" and "Move It" in English, are sonic opposites — with the former nearly approaching spoken word territory as the French-Chilean political activist raps over a simplistic soundscape of synths before urging listeners to feel the groove on the latter's jaunty flute symphony.
As Tijoux teased on Instagram, the songs are part of an upcoming EP titled Serpiente de madera, which will be released in April. Though she hasn't revealed any other details, it seems she's eager for what's to come: "2025 te recibo," she wrote in a post, which translates to "2025 I receive you."