As heat waves have hit much of the country this week, your favorite artists continue to deliver red-hot albums and sweltering singles galore.
Lorde delivers her wildly anticipated fourth album, Virgin, while Teddy Swims drops I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Complete Edition) and F1 The Album finally arrives in full with new contributions from Burna Boy ("Don't Let Me Drown"), RAYE ("Grandma Calls The Boy Bad News"), Madison Beer ("All At Once") and more.
Meanwhile, Steve Aoki unveils HiROQUEST 3: Paragon, Lauren Spencer Smith details THE ART OF BEING A MESS, Frankie Grande checks into Hotel Rock Bottom and Charles Kelley sings Songs For a New Moon. Other new albums and EPs this week include Russ' W!LD, Cole Swindell's Spanish Moss, JP Saxe's Make Yourself At Home, Adrian Quesada's Boleros Psicodélicos II, Fishbone's Stockholm Syndrome, Dayglow's Dayglow (Superbloom) and Kevin Abstract's Blush.
As far as new singles go, Alex Warren teams up with ROSÉ for "On My Mind; d4vd and Stray Kids' Hyunjin unveil their long-awaited collab "Always Love"; Laufey continues the rollout for the forthcoming A Matter of Time with "Lover Girl"; and Lewis Capaldi returns with "Survive." Plus, Jessie Murph releases "Heroin" as the latest preview of her sophomore LP Sex Hysteria, Myke Towers unveils "EXPECTATIVAS," WONHO channels Y2K boy bands with "Better Than Me," and Dove Cameron taps into an all-consuming love on "Romeo."
Below, press play on 11 new releases to soundtrack the summer heat including KATSEYE's sophomore EP, a surprise mixtape from Lizzo and new singles from Maroon 5, Camilo, Kim Petras and more.
As a second taste of her upcoming sophomore album, BITE ME, Reneé Rapp offers up "Mad," a delectable slice of relationship anguish that gives the Mean Girls star license to tease and toy her way through the middle of a lovers' spat.
Rapp stars in the accompanying music video opposite a suited-up Alexandra Shipp, who broods and rebuffs the singer's advances as she laments, "Hey you/ All of the time you wasted being mad/ We could've been cute and we could've been stupid" — among several other naughty activities she doesn't hesitate to list with a Cheshire cat grin.
BigXthaPlug and Shaboozey link up for the second time with their twangy, guitar-strewn collaboration "Home," which follows their previous duet, "Drink Don't Need No Mix," from the five-time GRAMMY nominee's 2024 breakout, Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going.
This time around, the pals find themselves on the run from heartache as they race down a desolate highway with their sights set on home "Last thing you'll see is smoke as I'm movin' on/ You took all the love I gave and left me all alone," Shaboozey snarls on the opening verse before BigXthaPlug takes the wheel to let loose a stream of memories from his own dashed relationship.
"It's a whole. Different. Typa. B— that's. Coming," Lizzo vows on "CRASHOUT," the gleefully aggressive opening salvo of MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING. While the four-time GRAMMY winner has been teasing her forthcoming fifth album, Love in Real Life, for the bulk of 2025, she hit the pause button on that full-length and took just 36 hours to conjure up the mixtape filled with freestyle raps, hard-hitting rhymes and high-profile collaborations with fellow GRAMMY-winning pals Doja Cat and SZA.
Across 13 rap-heavy tracks, Lizzo directly addresses public discourse about her changing body image on "YITTY ON YO TITTYS (FREESTYLE)," throws caution to the wind on "NEW MISTAKES," shouts out all the "gay sons and thot daughters" on "LEFTRIGHT," and provides a feast of sexually charged jams to grind, freak and twerk to — all while throwing up two middle fingers on the smiley cover art.
Camilo puts artificial intelligence to the test on his new single, "Maldito ChatGPT," which translates rather amusingly to "Damn ChatGPT" in English.
On the bouncing ditty, the impressively mustachioed Colombian star consults the A.I. know-it-all to make a decision about love. Ultimately, however, the heart wants what it wants, no matter what a seemingly omniscient computer has to say.
And yes, the 6-time Latin GRAMMY winner even ends the song with a recording of a Spanish-language conversation between himself and the chatbot in question, which ultimately posits, "You deserve a relationship where you feel full compatibility/ And it's important that you remind yourself of that."
Maroon 5 officially kick the rollout for their eighth studio set, Love Is Like, into gear with the release of "All Night." The forthcoming album isn't slated for release until Aug. 15, but the new single will have fans dancing, well, all night long over a groovy saxophone line as frontman Adam Levine croons, "Yeah we can go all night/ All night, 'til the sunlight, sunlight/ And if you just take my heart/ We can go on and on 'til morning."
Meanwhile, the track's music video gives Levine's wife, Behati Prinsloo Levine, the chance to give pop stardom a whirl as she takes over frontman duties by lip syncing to her hubby's vocals. (And never fear — while the rest of Maroon 5 backs Behati in matching suits and shades, you won't have to turn around in a giant red chair to guess who's on the saxophone…)
KATSEYE build on their momentum as one of the most promising girl groups of the 2020s with their sophomore EP, BEAUTIFUL CHAOS, which arrives courtesy of HYBE x Geffen Records less than a year after last summer's SIS (Soft Is Strong).
The project adds three new tracks to the previously released "Gnarly" and "Gabriela." The blippy "Gameboy" treads familiar, Nintendo-inspired ground by calling out another mind game-playing manchild. (If the song dropping just six months after ROSÉ's rosie album cut of the same name is an indicator, it may be well past time to put the consoles down, fellas.)
Meanwhile, the gentle "Mean Girls" plays nice over a seesawing electronic melody line, as the Dream Academy alums turn the other cheek and revel in establishing boundaries with kindness before turning the sass back up on closing banger "M.I.A."
Read More: Get To Know KATSEYE: The Global Girl Group Styled After K-Pop Superstars
With just one month before she embarks on a headlining tour of South America, Samara Joy dusts off her Portuguese to reimagine Djavan's 1978 single "Flor de Lis," which remains a classic in the now-76-year-old's native Brazil.
By the second verse of the jazzy cover, the 2023 Best New Artist winner switches to English, crooning, "Because of you, my world is upside down/ I love you anyhow, but this is too much to bear" over a horn-inflected, shuffling arrangement by drummer Evan Sherman.
Read More: Why Samara Joy Keeps Her GRAMMYs At Her Parents' House | Where Do You Keep Your GRAMMY?
Pop your collars, Bunheads, because Kim Petras has made her grand return just in time for summer with her brand-new single "Polo." In both the song and its cover art, the history-making GRAMMY winner lays out her new uniform of "tight and teeny" Ralph Lauren polo and denim miniskirt — all while on the prowl for the right guy to take both pieces of clothing off for her.
Filled with come-ons like "Titties popping out my bra, like what/ You wanna throw it to the floor, right now," the raunchy bop marks a new beginning for Petras, who shared her excitement about the track on Instagram. "This is the first chapter, because I want it to be," she wrote. "This song opened a path I've been dying to go down. This is the beginning of the end, everything before was just pretend."
Read More: A Legacy Of Pride: Queer Artists Who Changed The GRAMMYs Forever
Ella Langley seems head over heels on her new single, "Never Met Anyone Like You." At least that's how the infatuated love song starts out as the rising country star admits a new love interest has "got [her] whole world upside down."
But soon enough, the sweet sugar that coats the first verse rubs off to reveal that the Hungover singer isn't exactly doling out lovestruck compliments when she sings, "I've never met anyone like you/ Darling, you're one in a million/ God couldn't do it again if he tried to." With an assist from HARDY, the song shifts gears at the two-minute mark, transforming into a fiery takedown that once again proves the timeless adage: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
"Summertime Blue," Norah Jones and John Legend's new collaboration, is anything but gloomy as the two artists and one-time Best New Artist winners — who have a combined 23 GRAMMYs between them — join forces at the piano for the very first time.
The duo's dynamic is breezy and laid-back as they rhapsodize over a daydream-worthy summer romance of days gone by. "I still see the sunlight dancing off your hair/ But I didn't dare/ Let you catch me dreaming," Legend sings as Jones joins in on ad-libbed harmony to add, "My mind was running wild/ In the heat of your smile/ Now it's been a while/ Since I heard from you."
Watch: John Legend Wins Best New Artist At The 2006 GRAMMYs | GRAMMY Rewind
Seven years after their 2018 LP, Generation Rx, Good Charlotte are back with "Rejects," the lead single from their soon-to-be-released eighth studio set, Motel Du Cap, which is set for release Aug. 8 via Atlantic Records.
The track's bright, pop-punk instrumentation belies the dark stream-of-consciousness of its hook as frontman Joel Madden gets existential, singing, "Sometimes I still wish I wasn't born at all/ I've always had the feeling that this feeling is my only one." The vibe isn't all doom and gloom, however, as the single arrives with a clever, claymation-infused music video involving a trippy journey to a local dive bar courtesy of some magic mushrooms.