New Music Friday: Lady Gaga, JENNIE, Elton John & Brandi Carlile and Rachel Chinouriri

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

Let's get started on albums, shall we?

First on the list, of course, is the return of Mother Monster herself. Lady Gaga returns to her roots of kinetic, chaotic dark dance-pop with her seventh studio album, MAYHEM. Across 15 tracks - including the trio of UK Top 10 singles Die With A Smile, Abracadabra and Disease -  Gaga successfully, as the kids say, reheats her own nachos, with a record that's set with teeth-grinding industrial club beas and rock inflections. 

MAYHEM is, truly, spreading.

The ladies of BLACKPINK are really on the solo career attack recently, following brand new solo release from ROSÉ, LISA and Jisoo, JENNIE is the latest member of the K-pop supergroup to issue her debut solo album. RUBY contains the UK Top 40 singles MANTRA and ExtraL with Doechii, while eyes next week will surely be on Handlebars, her link-up with British pop goddess Dua Lipa.

Now, let's move on to singles.

With less than a month to go until the release of their collaborative album Who Believes In Angels? Elton John and Brandi Carlile offer up a new track from the LP; Swing For The Fences, while BRIT-nominated indie-pop darling Rachel Chinouriri has just announced a brand new EP Little House, it's lead track Can we talk about Isaac? is out now, and a typically crowd-pleasing new alternative banger from an artist more comfortable than ever in her own skin.

A big rising star in the UK music scene, Chloe Qisha offers up a typically effervescent pop tune with new single Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread (quite!), while J-pop girlgroup on the rise f5ve team up with BloodPop and AG Cook for Magic Clock, taken from their forthcoming debut album SEQUENCE 01.

More new singles this week come from David Guetta & Sia (Beautiful People), James Arthur (Karoke) and Black Country, New Road (Happy Birthday).