If this week's batch of releases is any indication, the battle for Song of the Summer is officially off to the races. The first week of June sees shiny new earworms from the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey, and more.
Plenty of exciting full-lengths kick off the summer season as well: MARINA ascends the throne on her sixth album PRINCESS OF POWER, Jon Bellion delivers his first solo LP in nearly seven years with Father Figure and Addison Rae makes a self-assured bid to become the pop princess of the TikTok generation with her self-titled debut album, Addison. Other anticipated sets include Lil Wayne's Tha Carter VI, Cynthia Erivo's I Forgive You, Doobie Brothers' Walk This Road, and Hailey Whitters' Corn Queen.
Plus, FLETCHER finds herself in an unexpected romantic entanglement on "Boy"; Kiesza "Stays in Bed" on her first release of 2025; Rachel Chinouriri teams up with tourmate Alemeda to call out a scamming "Chameleon"; Old Dominion and Bailey Zimmerman announce new albums alongside respective singles "Water My Flowers" and "Comin' In Cold"; FINNEAS and Ashe unveil their first single as The Favors with "The Little Mess You Made"; and Ciara remixes her latest single "Ecstasy" with an assist from Normani and Teyana Taylor.
Below, press play on 10 new releases to soundtrack the start to your summer, including tracks from Teddy Swims, Zac Brown Band and Ethel Cain as well as full-lengths by Turnstile and Rascal Flatts and more.
For anyone looking for the best way to describe an incompetent and disappointing ex, Sabrina Carpenter has just the word in her new single: "Manchild."
The scathing put-down produced by Jack Antonoff finds the GRAMMY-winning "Espresso" singer ripping an unsuspecting dope to lyrical shreds — taking coquettish aim at everything from his style ("Whole outfit you're wearing, god, I hope it's ironic") and utter lack of self-care to his undeveloped frontal cortex and even his mother's abject parenting. "F— my life, won't you let an innocent woman be?" she laments on the chorus before later insisting, "I swear they choose me, I'm not choosin' them, amen! Hey, men!"
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Turnstile's fourth album, NEVER ENOUGH, is a hard-rocking, all-caps affair featuring previously released singles like "SEEIN' STARS," "BIRDS," "LOOK OUT FOR ME" and the title track.
NEVER ENOUGH marks the hardcore punk band's first major release since the departure of founding lead guitarist Brady Ebert in 2022 and the addition of touring guitarist Meg Mills as an official member of the band. The 14-track LP arrives with an accompanying visual album, which premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival on June 5 ahead of the studio set's release, and will screen in select theaters across the country.
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Teddy Swims paints a gorgeous picture of what being head over heels in love looks like on his new single "God Went Crazy."
The recent Best New Artist GRAMMY nominee reins in the vocal acrobatics that helped turn his breakout single "Lose Control" into such an unstoppable hit on the soulful slow jam. Instead, he's content to simply revel in the immaculate design of his new lady love with a Mona Lisa smile, declaring, "Yeah, I'm made for you/ I prayed for you/ There's a light in your eyes/ Every color in the sky don't come close to…I swear that God went crazy when he painted you."
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"This is…my favourite song on the album," Ed Sheeran revealed on social media about his new single, "Sapphire." The gleaming anthem marks the third taste of the pop star's upcoming album, Play (due Sept. 12), which will also include lead single "Azizam" and sentimental follow-up "Old Phone."
"You're glowing, you color and fracture the light/ You can't help but shine," the four-time GRAMMY winner sings in the track's globe-trotting music video, which was shot on location on the beaches, in the markets and the Bollywood backlots of India. To add to its cross-cultural flavor, "Sapphire" features backing vocals and sitar by Indian playback artist Arjit Singh, and Sheeran will soon release a full Punjabi-language version of the song.
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Zac Brown and co. can't be bothered on their sunny new single "I Ain't Worried About It," which the frontman dedicated via social media to "anyone who's been through the fire and came out lighter" and marks the country act's first release since their 2024 EP, No Wake Zone.
The band may be tuning out the chaos on the brightly tropical-tinged ditty, but perhaps a little gleeful disassociation is the whole point as Brown sings, "People keep trying to tell me/ How to live and I'm just/ Over here runnin' out of/ F—s to give/ I ain't worried about it."
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Mariah Carey may generally refuse to acknowledge the passage of time, but for her devoted Lambily, it's been nearly half a decade since the Elusive Chanteuse dropped her last new solo music in the form of the 2020 compilation The Rarities.
So it's a welcome surprise when, just one week after releasing the 20th anniversary edition of The Emancipation of Mimi, the icon delivers a 1-2 punch thanks to her new single "Type Dangerous."
Constructed over a brilliant sample of Eric B. and Rakim's 1986 hip-hop classic "Eric B. Is President," "Type Dangerous" is a surprising pivot for the Songbird Supreme, who forgoes her legendary whistle tone in favor of an unruffled vocal flow that manages to throw delicious shade and give the children a vocabulary lesson in the very same breath by rhyming "three hatin' ass hoes" with "rigamarole."
For their second-ever release, Los Ballers team up with Clarent and Rauw Alejandro on the club-ready banger "FORNI," which the latter first previewed during the Miami stop of his ongoing Cosa Nuestra World Tour.
Over a hip-shaking beat, Clarent and Alejandro trade braggadocious verses in their native Spanish before the elder Puerto Rican superstar delivers the sing-song chorus: "Baby, tú estas yummy, yummy/ Baby, tú 'tas baby, tu 'tas/ Call me si te sientes lonely, lonely/ No te tardes más, vamo' a forni que toy horny/ Yo soy tu fan pero tú no eres mi only."
With "Nettles," Ethel Cain offers a first preview of Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, her highly anticipated full-length follow-up to 2022's Preacher's Daughter, which is slated for release on August 8.
"'Nettles' became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won't come true and to dream, instead, of all the time you'll have together as you grow old side by side," the trans trailblazer said of the eight-minute song in a statement, adding, "Every once in a blue moon, it feels good to slough off the macabre and to simply let love be."
After months of teasing the track, Lil Yachty unearths the laidback "MURDA" from the vault as his first release of 2025.
The bold single comes complete with a surrealist music video crafted in partnership with Lyrical Lemonade, who previously collaborated with the rapper on visuals for 2023's "TESLA," 2024's "Say Ya Grace" with Chief Keef, "Lunch Break Freestyle" from earlier this year and more. According to a bonus, behind-the-scenes featurette released by the company, the AMD-directed clip marks the very first music video shot on film in Lil Boat's career.
Rascal Flatts pull a delightful U-turn down memory lane on their new duets album, Life Is A Highway: Refueled Duets, by reimagining some of the biggest hits of their career with help from a few high-profile friends.
The 10-track LP includes starry duets of old favorites with Backstreet Boys ("What Hurts the Most"), Blake Shelton ("Mayberry"), Kelly Clarkson ("I'm Movin' On"), Carly Pearce ("My Wish"), Brandon Lake ("Stand") and more, as well as a brand new collab with the Jonas Brothers on the previously released "I Dare You."