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

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

Let's start with your albums offering!

What's on this week's New Music Friday playlists?

New Music Friday albums 💿

Ariana Grande has been doing some growing, and is finally ready for eighth studio album petal to pierce the proverbial soil and shoot towards the light.

Described by Ari as, "Something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging", expect heartbreak, healing and a multitude of other emotions to engulf this record.

With five Number 1 albums already in the bag, is the American superstar destined for a sixth chart-topping accolade?

Gather round, Shaboozey wants to spin some tales. GRAMMY award-winning American Shaboozey is set to reveal all on The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales. A cinematic outlaw revenge story centred on a tragic love, this is a pivotal moment in Shaboozey's career, as he lets loose his world building credentials to the public.

Manchester post-punk icons The Durutti Column introduce us to Renascent, their first project in 14 years. Formed of Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart, can they secure their debut position inside the Official Albums Chart Top 40?

Entering the AHHCADE in the hopes of success are Australian dance trio PNAU, as Odeal searches For A Good Time... on his sixth LP.

One of Ireland's most exciting prospects Dave Lofts is feeling enlightened as he reveals his debut EP, Holy. With Tom Grennan dubbing his vocals as one of the best he's ever heard, this will be one not to miss.

Other releases to keep an eye out for come from the likes of Opus Kink (The Sweet Goodbye), Arca (XXXXX), Logic (Paradise Records (Compilation)) and Karin Ann (Orion).

Now, time for the singles.

New Music Friday singles 🎶

AH HA! You couldn't keep her down for long! Cardi B is back in the building with her maiden release of 2026. AH HA will be eyeing a 15th Top 40 for the American and her first since 2023.

A link-up we didn't know we needed. German producers KITSCHKRIEG and viral artist Blumengarten's Gut Genug has been making waves online, and none other than the President of UK rap Skepta, has hopped on a remix. What a world we live in.

Following the announcement of his new mixtape Monday Marathon Music, UK rapper Headie One unleashes the project's first material in the form of Turnt To A Target, a powerful statement of intent that explores the realities of success and the pressures that come with life in the spotlight.

We see indie-pop favourite Rachel Chinouriri on One Song Away From Crying, with her sophomore album I think I spoke too soon ready to hit playlists on Friday, 2 October.

Dynamic duo Angus & Julia Stone return with Celestial Bodies, a track full of hypnotic rhythms with dreamlike lyricism, taken from their forthcoming album Karaoke Bar.

After confirming the news of his first solo album in over 20 years titled From The Dark, former Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi reveals the powerful new single, World Alone.

Emerging soul star Debbie is itching for More Of You, a single which has already racked up half a million views on Tik Tok. Speaking on the track, Debbie says: "More of You is one of many songs I wrote about an ex of mine. After years of holding on, I was starting to lose hope. I'd become so used to accepting breadcrumb versions of love that I'd forgotten what it looked like to have real standards for myself. Writing this song felt like a cry for help. In many ways, this song became the moment I finally acknowledged that I deserved more than inconsistency, and that sometimes the hardest person to convince is yourself."

Debuting the track on Later... With Jools Holland last month, Ellie Goulding takes us through the 4 Seasons on a sweeping, angelic acoustic ride, as electronic four-piece Mount Kimbie drop Jomox.

More singles to indulge in include Robyn's link-up with Zara Larsson on Talk To Me, Zara, Bloc Party's Now We Can't Be Friends, Meek Mill's Nightmares to Dreams, Groove Armada's funky bop Body Action and Tones And I with Home To Me.