Let’s get stuck straight into albums, shall we?<\/p>\n
What’s new this New Music Friday?<\/p>\n
New Music Friday albums \ud83d\udcbf<\/p>\n
It can’t always be LA, someone’s got to hold it down on the Albums Chart! Fresh from scoring her first UK Top 40 hit with Ain\u2019t In LA<\/a>, AD\u00c9LA<\/a> makes her full-length introduction with PRIMA. The Slovak pop riser\u2019s debut embraces the duality at the heart of her pop persona – and her ambition to become, in her words, the \u201cprima ballerina of pop\u201d. PRIMA’s focus track is an ode to A-list actress – and Official Chart-topper – Nicole Kidman<\/a>.<\/p>\n Seven chart-toppers on the bounce – can Kasabian<\/a> make it eight? Ninth studio album ACT III follows 2024\u2019s Number 1 Happenings<\/a>, continuing the Leicester band\u2019s shape-shifting take on guitar music.<\/p>\n Are we gonna sing? Sam Tompkins<\/a> certainly hopes so. The Brighton-based singer-songwriter returns with second album ARE WE GONNA SING?, following two UK Top 10 releases: 2022 EP Who Do You Pray To?<\/a> (7) and 2024 debut album hi, my name is insecure<\/a> (8).<\/p>\n She knows too much – and luckily, she\u2019s sharing. Ellie Goulding<\/a> returns with sixth album I Know Too Much, following four UK Number 1 LPs to date. Featuring recent singles\u00a0Black Prada Dress<\/a>\u00a0and Ravers<\/a>, Ellie describes the record as a musical journal capturing a defining chapter of her life.<\/p>\n Three UK Top 10 albums deep, JAMIE WEBSTER<\/a>\u00a0keeps Running Round The Sun with album number four. Following 2024\u2019s career-best Number 2 10 For The People<\/a>, the Liverpool singer-songwriter turns inward this time, tackling success, self-doubt and learning to live in the moment.<\/p>\n Break out the B’DAY cake! Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> marks two decades of her Number 3-peaking second album with B’DAY<\/a>\u00a0(20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION). D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/a>, Irreplaceable<\/a> and Beautiful Liar<\/a> sit alongside B-sides, Spanish-language recordings and rarities including the recently-unveiled MORNING DEW (DONK)<\/a>.<\/p>\n No need to consult the Algorithm: Natalie Imbruglia<\/a> is back with her first studio project in five years. Entirely self-funded, co-written and co-produced by Natalie, the record finds the former UK Number 1 album-maker exploring everything from doomscrolling to mental health.<\/p>\n More than two decades after Top 10 debut Everything\u2019s Eventual<\/a>, sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton<\/a> return with Side By Side, their first new project together since 2003, featuring comeback singles Falling Into You and Ready To Begin.<\/p>\n PRESIDENT<\/a> make their first full-length address with Blood Of Your Empire. The enigmatic rock outfit\u2019s debut – featuring Angel Wings<\/a>, Mercy<\/a> and dark heaven<\/a> – turns its attention to a world in crisis, grappling with mortality, faith and the state of things around us.<\/p>\n A 1994 night at London\u2019s Astoria II finally gets an audio afterlife. The Cranberries<\/a>\u2019 Live At The London Astoria II, 1994 arrives newly remastered and available to hear as an album for the first time, capturing performances of classics including Linger<\/a>, Dreams<\/a> and Zombie<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last orders? Not quite. Sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone<\/a> open the doors to Karaoke Bar, their seventh studio LP and a joy-leaning collection inspired by adventures around the world. The pair share vocals throughout, with recent release The Cherry Farm among its highlights.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Friday remains Rebecca Black<\/a>\u2019s day as she enters her Age of the Exhibitionist, exploring visibility and life lived in public on her latest album. Paris Paloma<\/a> examines love – as art, politics and everything in between – on second record The Fatal Flaw, while Willie J Healey<\/a> sends 143, an EP named after the pager-era code for \u201cI love you\u201d. Finally, Dexys Midnight Runners<\/a> keep the message similarly simple on new album LOVE.<\/p>\n Now, onto singles.<\/p>\n New Music Friday singles \ud83c\udfb6<\/p>\n New era, new name. Now going simply by Miley<\/a>, the pop heavyweight launches her next chapter with Bass Persuades<\/a>, the throbbing, \u201980s-tinged title track from her forthcoming 10th album. Built around muscular synths and a simple instruction to put the phones down and actually dance, resistance feels pretty futile.<\/p>\n Tinie Tempah<\/a> heads straight for the dancefloor on To The Floor (Vai Descendo)<\/a>, teaming up with Tropkillaz and AFROJACK<\/a> for a baile funk-infused club cut built around a hypnotic Portuguese refrain and quick-footed percussion. Lifted from Tinie\u2019s new 12AM EP, it captures that sweet spot in a night out when the plans disappear, the music takes over and, as Tinie puts it, you hit your \u201cflow state\u201d.<\/p>\n LISA<\/a> brings it home on SaWaDiKa, a swaggering, hip-hop-driven return that proudly taps into the BLACKPINK<\/a> star\u2019s Thai roots, taking its title from the familiar Thai greeting. The track opens the next chapter of her solo career ahead of new EP PRESS PLAY, while fans can also look forward to her forthcoming Always Lalisa documentary<\/a>, heading to IMAX and cinemas this October.<\/p>\n Keeping us on the floor, Gaskin keeps things firmly club-ready on house cut Sheetz, while MK<\/a> links up with Tristan Henry for Leaving, a slick slice of late-night house.<\/p>\n Take That<\/a> join forces with Irish-American singer-songwriter Michael Patrick Kelly on upbeat new single Feel My Love, as they put the finishing touches to forthcoming 10th studio album Dreamers.<\/p>\n Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller inspire Bastille<\/a> frontman Dan Smith\u2019s next chapter: Oh America<\/a> introduces Misfits Together, his new album with Ralph Pelleymounter, arriving March 12 2027.<\/p>\n Following the Top 10 success of 2025 album RENT\u2019S DUE, Nemzzz<\/a> recruits Travis Scott<\/a> for GASS, a major collaboration from new project LOCKED IN.<\/p>\n Fresh from scoring her second UK Top 40 hit with Stop The Wedding!<\/a>, Ashe<\/a> holds a Funeral for a love gone wrong as fourth studio album The Girl Of Your Dreams approaches on October 16.<\/p>\n Summer\u2019s not over just yet! Arthur Hill<\/a> pours a glass of Orange Wine<\/a>, an end-of-summer cut born during the first sessions for his still-under-wraps debut album.<\/p>\n Debut mini-album Need To Know<\/a> edges closer for British girl group XO, who serve up jealousy-fuelled single Stacey (Take You Higher), co-written by MNEK and KABBA, ahead of its October 16 release.<\/p>\n Fresh from debuting Pretty Villain at Reading & Leeds, Beth McCarthy officially unleashes the track this week.<\/p>\n Double trouble from Jae Stephens: dreamy, MNEK-produced I Miss The City and commitment-dodging Gymnastics land in anticipation of debut album AUDACITY on September 25.<\/p>\n Whose boots? Kane Brown<\/a> recruits Shania Twain<\/a> for Boots, a male-perspective spin on her 1995 classic Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? as he continues teasing his next LP.<\/p>\n