What’s Your Favorite New Music Release of the Week? Vote!
It’s been an exciting week for music fans, with major stars from every genre dropping tracks and albums.
To kick things off, Katy Perry returned with 143, her first album since 2020’s Smile. “I set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic 143 numerical expression of love as a throughline message,” Perry previously shared in a statement about 143, which is text message code for “I love you.”
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Future also dropped his first solo project of the year, Mixtape Pluto. Mixtape Pluto marks the Atlanta native’s third project of 2024, following his pair of collaborative albums with Metro Boomin — We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You — which both topped the Billboard 200; the former album contained the blistering Kendrick Lamar-featuring Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Like That” track that ignited the biggest rap beef of the year between Lamar and Drake.
Bad Bunny unleashed “Una Velita,” where he is brutally honest about how Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, particularly its continued blackouts due to a weakened power grid, has yet to recover from the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, which resulted in thousands of deaths.
There’s so much more where that came from, and we want to know your favorite from the slew of music releases this week. Check out our Friday Music Guide here, and let us know by voting here.
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