New Releases: Tate McRae, Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris, Dermot Kennedy, Dolly Parton and more

This week's biggest single, album and home entertainment releases, only on Official Charts

Welcome to your weekly round-up of the biggest new single, album and home entertainment releases, all in one handy place.

Let’s get straight into the week’s new single drops, shall we?

Canadian singer-songwriter Tate McRae follows up her monster Number 3 smash greedy with another earworm tailor-made for viral success. exes, lifted from her upcoming LP THINK LATER and another co-write with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, sees Tate send ‘kisses to my exes who don’t give a sh*t about me;’ its teaser having already gained traction on social media. Another Top 5 single incoming?

Eliza Rose teams up with Calvin Harris on Body Moving this week, after the Scottish DJ slid into Eliza's DMs suggesting a collab. Could the track earn Calvin a second Number 1 single of 2023 after Miracle's eight weeks at the top?

It's the most wonderful time of the year, with some brand-new Christmas releases ready for you this week. Sabrina Carpenter returns with her yuletide offering fruitcake, while Aly & AJ drop their holiday track Lonesome Dove. English-Irish boy band New Rules offer up a couple of festive tunes with Might Ruin Christmas and a cover of the classic Santa Claus is Coming to Town, as Lauren Spencer Smith adds to her output of seasonal singles with Santa Baby.

With just over a month to go, here’s everything you need to know about the 2023 Official Christmas Number 1 single announcement.

Following the success of his Number 1 album Sonder last year, Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy is back with the sublime Two Hearts, while South London multi-hyphenate Talia Mar unleashes the addictive Bored.

Elsewhere, Foy Vance celebrates 10 years of his single Guiding Light with an Anniversary Edition featuring Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Keith Urban.

On the albums front, Madness return with their first studio album since 2016’s Can’t Touch Us Now. Suggs and co. will be hoping Theatre of the Absurd Presents C’est la Vie earns them a 20th Top 40 record.

Dolly Parton's 49th studio record Rockstar is yours this week, featuring covers of much-loved classics in collaboration with the likes of Miley Cyrus (Wrecking Ball), Blondie's Debbie Harry (Heart of Glass) and The Beatles' Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (Let It Be).

OutKast’s André 3000 releases new solo flute album New Blue Sun, 17 years after the group’s hiatus. The LP includes such snappily-titled tracks as I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a "Rap" Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time. Looks like someone’s graduated from the Lana Del Rey school of song titling.

It’s a big week for reissues, too. Arkansas rockers Evanescence celebrate 20 years of their debut LP Fallen. The record topped the Official Albums Chart on its release in 2003; spawning the singles Bring Me to Life (1), Going Under (8), My Immortal (7) and Everybody’s Fool (24).

Meanwhile, following her chart-topping success with Queen of Me earlier this year, Shania Twain’s 2004 Top 10 Greatest Hits collection receives a vinyl reissue.

Daft Punk celebrate a decade of their last record as a duo, Random Access Memories. The French electronic auteurs release the reimagined Random Access Memories: Drumless Edition this week.

Other big new album releases this week come courtesy of Emeli Sand é (How Were We to Know), K-pop outfit Red Velvet (Chill Kill), Kurt Vile (Back to Moon Beach) and Thin Lizzy (Vagabonds of the Western World). Drake also drops his latest Scary Hours instalment - Scary Hours 3 - this week.