It's the most wonderful time of the year! With Christmas just days away, artists like Miley Cyrus and Burna Boy are dropping early gifts for their fans' listening pleasure.

The two-time GRAMMY winning pop star lends her voice to the soundtrack of Pamela Anderson's acclaimed performance in The Last Showgirl, while the GRAMMY-winning Nigerian singer teases his upcoming eighth album with a lead single that'll have his fans rocking around the Christmas tree to an Afro fusion rhythm. 

Below, press play on eight new releases worth checking out in between your holiday playlists, including expanded albums from J. Cole and Katy Perry, a long-awaited reunion between Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera and exciting singles by rising artists Artemas and Rob49.

"Just like a rose/ Red in its glow/ Watch her as she sways…" Thus begins "Beautiful That Way," Miley Cyrus' dreamy contribution to the soundtrack of The Last Showgirl.

The "Flowers" singer paints a portrait that's evocative, romantic and melancholy in equal measure on the lilting ballad. The song offers a bittersweet melody for Pamela Anderson's award-nominated role as a resilient and glamorous Vegas showgirl whose future is thrown into jeopardy when her show — the last of its kind on the Strip — closes after 30 years. 

The rest of the film's wistful, jazzy score was crafted by Andrew Wyatt, who co-wrote "Beautiful Like That" with Cyrus and Lykke Li.

Burna Boy continues his annual hot streak of releasing new music each December with "Bundle By Bundle."

Produced by the Nigerian sensation's frequent collaborator Telz, the track captures Burna's Nigerian roots with a hip-shaking beat and party-ready spirit that foretells the vibe of his upcoming eighth studio set, No Sign of Weakness, which is expected to be released in early 2025.

As 2024 reaches its end, Aphex Twin isn't just reflecting on the past year — he's offering fans a new compilation full of music from the past.

Music From the Merch Desk (2016 - 2023) rounds up more than three dozen tracks the electronic pioneer released as limited edition vinyl singles over the course of his last seven years of touring — all available on streaming for the first time. 

The compilation's 38-song track list includes everything from a pair of mixes dating back to his 2016 appearance at Houston's Day for Night festival to five songs off the vinyl he sold at All Points East in the summer of 2023.

The 10th anniversary edition of J. Cole's breakout album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, finally hits streaming services featuring eight previously unreleased tracks. 

As the rapper reasserted earlier this month via social media, he envisioned his smash third studio set to be a double album at one point during its creation. Bonus cuts like "Die Together," "Judgement Day," "Winter Wonderland" and "Black Man in Hollywood" would've been included on that version of the LP before it was whittled down to its final product, which was just certified 6x platinum by the RIAA earlier this month.

Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera reunite for MALA MÍA, the two groups' first collaborative release since their joint single "Bebe Dame" hit the top of Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart in early 2023.

The five-track EP includes songs like the playfully seductive opener "ME JALO" and the yearning "Coqueta." Rising Mexican acts Oscar Maydon and Armenta join both groups for the project's emotional closing track, "AURORA."

Katy Perry re-ups on her latest pop-centric era with 1432, the deluxe edition of her seventh studio album, 143, which was released in September.

The four new additions to the LP's track list feel particularly primed for the holiday season, whether the pop star is looking ahead to a fresh start and making post-breakup resolutions on "NO TEARS FOR NEW YEAR'S" or toasting to the journey on buoyant closer "OK." Elsewhere, the 13-time GRAMMY nominee finds rejuvenation thanks to the giddy "I WOKE UP" while her daughter Daisy makes a darling cameo on "HAS A HEART."

Fresh off his breakout track "I like the way you kiss me" joining Spotify's Billions Club, Artemas delivers a one-two punch with dual singles "fancy" and "xvideos."

The former is a flirtatious come-on with the rising alt-grunge star declaring, "Girl, you look so fancy/ F— you in the backseat/ No chance I'ma fall in love/ But we can still get nasty" over a relentlessly danceable beat while the latter finds him crafting a woozy, psychedelic soundscape as he invites a playmate to "fall in love for the cameras" in just under two minutes.

Just days after hitting the stage at Rolling Loud Miami, Rob49 dropped his latest single, "On Sight."

The New Orleans MC is clearly feeling frisky on the track as he brags about stealing his latest love interest from her previous man, paying for her plastic surgery and jetting around on private planes paid for in cash — and the sexually charged track only gets more NSFW from there.