{"id":837021,"date":"2026-03-19T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837021\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:40:18","slug":"new-music-friday-bts-flo-raye-dmas-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837021\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday: BTS, FLO, RAYE, DMA’S and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the news announced yesterday that his fourth solo LP would be coming this summer, Niall Horan<\/a> will unveil Dinner Party. The featured track on the album, it has been described as “a moving tale of how a chance encounter at a dinner party sparks a once-in-a-lifetime sense of connection.” Can Niall score a tenth Top 40 accolade?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read into everything Niall Horan’s Dinner Party has to offer with our exclusive First Listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Australian trio DMA’S<\/a>\u00a0are inviting you all round to My Baby’s Place this Friday. Coming off the back of their monumental ten-year anniversary tour celebrating their debut album Hills End<\/a>, you can catch everything you need to know about the single and more after Official Charts sat down with lead guitarist Matt Mason<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After announcing their comeback, Foo Fighters<\/a> will be dropping the second edition of their new era, Caught in the Echo. Following on from Your Favourite Toy<\/a>, the title track of the upcoming album arriving on 24 April, we can expect hectic energy in classic Foo’s style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Off the back of their incredible three-part documentary series on Netflix, Take That<\/a> will release their first material since 2023 with You’re A Superstar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two British music legends in Chase & Status<\/a> and Blade Brown<\/a> team up to unleash Doin It More.\u00a0<\/p>\n

British girl group FLO<\/a> will purposely Leak It, the first single off their second album. After multiple snippets of the tune were shared online, with fans recreating its dance routine, we cannot stress how excited we are for this one!<\/p>\n

RAYE<\/a>\u00a0will be collaborating with the one and only Hans Zimmer<\/a> for Click Clack Symphony, the third act off THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. The track in question was performed at her recent shows with many describing it as incredibly experimental and raw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Please take your seats, the show is about to begin. The red velvet curtain rises on Alfreda’s PUNCH & JUDY, a high-octane pop classic embellished with metaphors surrounding repetition, performance, and power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other new releases come in the form of Lizzo<\/a> and Don’t Make Me Love U, Cherry Bomb’s Digital Girl and Eaves Wilder with Mountain Sized.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, let’s look at the albums.<\/p>\n

And we kick-off with the long-awaited return of BTS<\/a> and their first release since 2022, ARIRANG. South Korean boys RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jin, Jung Kook, V, Jimin, who have now all completed their mandatory military service in South Korea, will be eyeing their third Number 1 album with their last coming in 2020 courtesy of MAP OF THE SOUL: 7<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ARIRANG, which is the name of a traditional Korean folk song renowned both in Korea and worldwide has been in the works for a long period of time with the group stating, “we hope to make a safe comeback this year and that the album does well. Let’s make BTS a huge success.”<\/p>\n

Malta’s 2026 Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> representative AIDAN unleashes his second studio album Cowboys Don’t Cry. The brand-new 12-track project includes his Eurovision entry, Bella.<\/p>\n

Chatting exclusively to Official Charts, AIDAN says: “This album represents two years of growth, creativity, and discovering my true sound.<\/p>\n

“Eurovision is an incredible opportunity to share this new chapter with a global audience and connect with people through music and performance. Following the release, I\u2019m also incredibly excited to take these songs on a huge promotional tour across Europe and Australia and finally experience them live with fans.”<\/p>\n

American country star Luke Combs<\/a> and The Way I Am will bless playlists this week, with Combs looking for a potential fifth Top 40 accolade.<\/p>\n

Other projects coming include Ladytron<\/a> and Paradises, Girl Group’s Little Sticky Pictures and More Eaze with Sentence Structure in the Country.<\/p>\n

New Music Friday song, album and DVD releases on March 20 2026:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the news announced yesterday that his fourth solo LP would be coming this summer, Niall Horan will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[23054,77,56028,269,32747,26925,16,15],"class_list":["post-837021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-flo","tag-music","tag-new-releases","tag-raye","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116258014890372800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}