New Music Friday: The Molotovs, MEEK, Labrinth and more

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

New Music Friday Songs Albums Singles January 30 2026

Welcome to New Music Friday, your ultimate round-up of this week's single, album and home entertainment releases.

Let's get started with this week's singles slate.

"I just got my heart broken, but I look f**king fabulous!" Unapologetic pop force MEEK explodes onto the scene with her first single fabulous; a bold statement of self-belief. It serves as the focus track from the South London singer-songwriter's debut EP, also titled fabulous, which drops this week. Catch MEEK performing at Mighty Hoopla at London's Brockwell Park on Saturday May 30.

Brand-new boy band December 10 shoot their shot with riotous debut cut Run My Way. The lads - Cruz (19), Danny (17), Hendrik (19), John (17), Josh (17), Nicolas (17) and Seán (19) - were formed on Netflix telly talent show Simon Cowell: The Next Act, and tell Official Charts: "It's the perfect song for December 10 as it has the energy that we have...The song is full of joy, like we are." Read everything you can expect from December 10's Run My Way here.

After announcing that he would be releasing a new album, The Great Divide in April, Noah Kahan has revealed the title track as the first single off the upcoming project. Kahan describes the project as an "attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am." Oh, this could get emotional.

Tom Misch makes a fond return with the touching single Sisters With Me alongside his the reveal of his next record Full Circle, dropping in March.

There's another new boy band release from Absnt Mind, too, as the lads take an emotional trip down memory lane. Allestree Lane, to be precise.

Melanie C asks What Could Possibly Go Wrong? as she serves up the latest taste of her upcoming ninth studio album Sweat, due May 1. On the track, Melanie says: "We had a lot of fun working on this song and discussing the light and shade of music and life. It's a tongue in cheek look on taking risks and trusting yourself to take that leap anyway. I think a lot of people will relate!"

They're Iconic! Swedish pop four-piece A*Teens are back with their first new material in 22 years. Marie, Dhani, Sara and Amit will be hoping Iconic is chosen to represent their home country at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna this May.

Elsewhere, expect big new releases from Cher Lloyd (Sweet Devotion), Debbie (The Rain Isn't Over), Joel Corry (Stuck In A Loop), EMIN ft. Amanda Holden (Somethin' Stupid) and rising indie-rock talent Mary Middlefield (Wake Up!).

It's a packed week on the albums front, too. Let's get stuck in.

Ahead of their big O2 Academy Brixton gig on February 2, Reading rockers Only The Poets deliver their debut album And I'd Do It Again. On the record, which was seven years in the making, lead vocalist and guitarist Tommy Longhurst tells Official Charts: "It's the truest and best representation of what we believe and want to sound like." Read our full interview with Only The Poets' Tommy here.

London duo The Molotovs - aka siblings Matthew and Issey Cartlidge - drop their first full-length collection Wasted On Youth this week. Catch the pair supporting YUNGBLUD on his upcoming IDOLS World Tour dates in April.

Texan rapper, singer and songwriter Don Toliver drops his fifth studio LP OCTANE, Labrinth returns with COSMIC OPERA ACT I and Liverpudlian rockers Cast serve up their eighth album Yeah Yeah Yeah.