New Music Friday: Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco, Lottery Winners, Mae Muller & more!

New Music Friday - this week's biggest new song, album and DVD releases, all in one place

New Music Friday Songs Albums Singles 21st March 2025

Welcome to New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song, album and DVD releases.

Let's get straight into this week's albums.

Northern heroes The Lottery Winners are back with a brand-new LP; Koko has been described as the band's 'most-adventurous' work yet. The four-piece (comprised of Thom Rylance, Robert Lally, Katie Lloyd and Joe Singleton) will be hoping to continue the success of their last album, 2023's Anxiety Replacement Therapy, which debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, gifting the band their first chart-topping record.

After a few years in the pop wilderness, Selena Gomez also returns today, hand-in-hand with hitmaking producer (and handily, fiancee) Benny Blanco for their first collaborative project, I Said I Loved You First. If the album's first single, the tender and acoustic-laden Scared of Loving You, convinced you this would be a demure work, think again. For the most part, I Said I Loved You First works hard to bring Selena back into her alt-pop bag, specially the halcyon days of 2017, where boundary-pushing tracks like Bad Liar and Fetish convinced you no-one had their finger on pop's weirder pulse.

English rockers The Horrors also this week unleash their sixht record Night Life, their first studio album in eight years, while acclaimed indie powerhouse Japanese Breakfast issues her fourth LP For The Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women) and K-pop sensations Stray Kids launch their next mixtape, MIXTAPE: dominATE.

Now, let's take a look at this week's new singles.

She wrote a song, she released an album...and then she took a break. Mae Muller may have taken a step back since the release of her debut album Sorry I'm Late (I Wrote A Song you will always be famous), but it seems that time cocooning away has been worth it. Breakway, the start of a new independent era for Mae, sees her coming back twirling on an existential, electronic beat that recalls the best of Grimes and Charli xcx. In the vein of Robyn or ABBA, the most intimate and scary things to admit to are always done best over a synthesiser, don't you think?

Yungblud has never been one to follow tradition, and after a quick break following a few droplet singles last year, Dominic Harrison is back with a grandiose version of rock music to enter in a brand new era. Hello Heaven, Hello is as about as epic as it gets; over 9 minutes long...and yet not a second is wasted.

BTS idol j-hope continues on his solo trajectory, following on from Miguel collab Sweet Dreams, the K-pop sensation's newest solo offering is called MONA LISA.

Other singles launching this week include the newest from Welsh legends Stereophonics (Seems Like You Don't Know Me), MARINA (Cupid's Bow) and Ella Henderson (One Door Closes ft. BRELAND).