This week's New Music Friday has a bit of everything: comeback singles, major collaborations, birthday celebrations, the reintroduction of a superstar's '90s-era alter ego and even a team-up between a world-famous DJ and a fictional K-pop girl group moonlighting as world-saving demon hunters.
Earlier this week, Tyler, The Creator gifted the world with his ninth studio album, DON'T TAP THE GLASS, with just a few days' notice. Indigo De Souza stands on the Precipice with her fourth album, Tyler Childers drops Snipe Hunter, Quinn XCII declares LOOK! I'm Alive on his seventh studio set and Tyla builds anticipation for a follow-up to 2024's Tyla with her new four-track mixtape, WWP.
Meanwhile, Drake teams up with Central Cee for "Which One," Kim Petras strips off her "Polo" with the party-ready "Freak It," Tame Impala foreshadows the "End of Summer" and Amaarae delivers a dose of "Girlie-Pop!" Plus, Sam Smith slows things down with the tender, acoustic "To Be Free," 3OH!3 give themselves a candy-coated brain freeze with "SLUSHIE," Jamie xx conjures up a "Dream Night," and Lola Young further teases her forthcoming album, I’m Only F—ing Myself with "d£aler."
Below, press play on eleven other new releases worth checking out, including new singles from Luke Combs; Mariah Carey, Kehlani and Shenseea; and Offset as well as new full-lengths by Hanumankind and TOMORROW X TOGETHER, a long-awaited remix project from Madonna and more.
Jennifer Lopez rang in her 56th birthday on July 24 by dropping the appropriately titled new one-off "BIRTHDAY" as the first single since her 2024 album This Is Me… Now.
The This Is Me… Now: A Love Story star has already been performing the slinky track live across Europe on her ongoing Up All Night Tour, bragging, "Name on top of the cake, it's my birthday/ I'mma make this famous ass shake, it's my birthday/ Throwin' all this money in they face, it's my birthday/ Every day is my birthday, b—" on the swaggering chorus.
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TOMORROW X TOGETHER — 'The Star Chapter: TOGETHER'
TOMORROW X TOGETHER kicked off the week of new music by dropping their fourth album, The Star Chapter: Together, on July 21 along with the visual for lead single "Beautiful Strangers."
The second and final component of the K-pop boy band's Star Chapter series (following 2024's The Star Chapter: Sanctuary EP) is also their first to incorporate solo tracks from all five members on a group album, including SOOBIN's "Sunday Driver," YEONJUN's "Ghost Girl," BEOMGYU's "Take My Half," TAEHYUN's "Bird of Night" and HUENINGKAI's "Dance With You."
It's only been a year since the release of his 2024 album Fathers & Sons, but Luke Combs is "Back in the Saddle" and raring to go on his first single of 2025.
"I've been gone for a little too long/ I've been waitin' on the drummer to kick off a comeback song," the eight-time GRAMMY nominee growls in the opening stanza, though he's not the only one ready to hit the gas and get back in the race. The song's high-octane music video also features surprise cameos from NASCAR legends Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Petty as Combs belts out the anthem from North Carolina's Tri-County Motor Speedway.
Madonna — 'Veronica Electronica'
Fans have waited more than 25 years for Veronica Electronica, Madonna's near-mythic companion remix project to her post-Evita magnum opus Ray of Light.
Not only did that 1998 album earn Her Madgesty four GRAMMY Awards including Best Pop Album, it was nearly single-handedly responsible for introducing electronica into mainstream pop music thanks to dance chart-toppers like "Frozen," "Ray of Light" and "Nothing Really Matters."
Finally seeing the light of day, the long-awaited remix album contains new edits of tracks like "Drowned World/Substitute for Love" and "Skin," as well as the unearthed original demo of "Gone Gone Gone," a previously unreleased track from the Ray of Light sessions that didn't make the final track list.
KPop Demon Hunters has become a runaway pop culture sensation since it premiered on Netflix in late June, with its soundtrack becoming the highest-charting of 2025 by peaking (so far) at No. 5 and spawning seven hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Now, David Guetta does his part to help HUNTR/X seal the Honmoon by remixing "Golden" with his magic touch. The two-time GRAMMY winner adds a kinetic undercurrent to Rumi, Mira and Zoey's shining story as the fictitious K-pop idols belt out, "'Cause we are hunters, voices strong … We're goin' up, up, up/ It's our moment/ You know together we're glowing/ Gonna be, gonna be golden."
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MC16 is officially on its way, dahhlings! Just days after unveiling the title, cover art and Sept. 26 release date of the forthcoming Here For It All, Mariah Carey whips up a sugar rush of pure bliss on second single "Sugar Sweet" with some help from Kehlani and Shenseea.
While the "Folded" songstress promises she's got "the sweet and the spice and the everything nice" and the Jamaican GRAMMY winner cooks up a delectable rap for her contribution to the bridge, the song's hook belongs solely to Mimi as she shows off her airy falsetto and coos, "Oh baby, baby, baby, baby/ I'm gonna use my expertise/ I'mma keep it nice, I'mma keep it neat/ I'mma keep it sugar, I'mma keep it sweet."
The Band CAMINO — 'NeverAlways'
The Band CAMINO's third studio album, NeverAlways, is filled with echoing, confessional pop-rock twinkling with tinges of gleaming electropop.
Standouts on the 11-song project include the propulsive, emotional "Baggy Jeans" and the '90s-leaning, alt-inspired "Pieces," while lead single "Infinity" serves as the studio set's grand finale, with Jeffery Jordan handling the song's verses before Spencer Stewart takes over on the chorus to muse about psilocybin trips and living forever "in a sideways figure eight."
Tasha Cobbs Leonard — 'TASHA'
More than a decade after emerging as a thrilling new voice in gospel music with her GRAMMY-winning single "Break Every Chain," Tasha Cobbs Leonard has christened her new self-titled fourth album with her own name.
The studio set features an eclectic approach to worship music — from the feel-good vibes of "Already Good (Tasha Slide)" to high-profile duets with Lecrae (opener "I Needed God"), John Legend ("Church"), Kirk Franklin ("I Still Choose You") and more.
Hanumankind — 'Monsoon Season'
Just one year ago, the success of "Big Dawgs" catapulted Hanumankind into the spotlight as a global talent to watch and earned the Indian rapper a deal with Capitol Records. Now, the artist born Sooraj Cherukat delivers on the promise of last summer's breakout hit with his debut major-label mixtape, Monsoon Season.
Along with the OG version of "Big Dawgs" and its A$AP Rocky-featuring remix, the 12-track collection features Hanumankind working with a roster of diverse collaborators from rappers Denzel Curry ("Reckless") and Maxo Kream ("Goons") to rising stars like Roisee ("Someone Told Me") and Bangalore native Rudy Mukta ("Cause") alongside solo cuts like "Run It Up," "Villainous Freestyle" and the foreboding title track.
Hudson Westbrook — 'Texas Forever'
Fresh off making his debut at the Grand Ole Opry on July 22, Hudson Westbrook offers up his highly anticipated debut album in the form of Texas Forever.
The 20-year-old country sensation builds on the success of previously released hits like "House Again," "Sober" and "Dressed Down" — all of which appear here — with heartfelt sentiments such as the awestruck "Painted You Pretty," closer "Hill I'll Die On" and the standout title track, on which he declares, "Like hearts and sleeves, wild and free, you and me and Texas forever."
Offset goes "Professional" for his latest solo single, which follows in the wake of recent releases like the Gunna-assisted "Style Rare," "Swing My Way," "Ten" and JID link-up "Bodies."
In the track's music video, the Migos rapper hits up New York City hotspot Lucien before wandering through the East Village with an entourage of video vixens in tow as he crows about being a "professional b— getter" who's "got some new drip straight out Japan" over a stuttering, jazzy loop.