Taylor Swift, Tinashe, Madonna and Charli xcx, Kenny Chesney & More: New Music Friday Guide
Categoria: Musica
Check out the must-hear releases of the week.
Por Billboard | 25/09/2026
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. Last week , we featured Miley, Carly Rae Jepsen, Riley Green and more. This week, Taylor Swift returns with “Patient Zero,” one of four new bonus tracks from The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore , out today; Tinashe releases her edgy and energetic eighth album; and Maren and Morris and Michelle Branch rework a 2001 classic with “Goodbye To You”… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below: Taylor Swift, “Patient Zero” We knew something was coming ever since Taylor appeared in an Emmys sketch alongside host and friend Mariska Hargitay, during which Swift dropped a few easter eggs (that some of us are still decoding). Still, it came as a surprise when, this week, she announced a new single titled “Patient Zero,” one of four bonus tracks on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore , out tonight. The song opens with country-inspired strings that quickly fade into the back of more expected pop production; the tempo, however, is less familiar for the Showgirl era. As a result, the midtempo song seems to connect where Swift has just been with where she’s heading next (possibly toward country?) in a really refreshing way. Because after an encore the show really, truly, is done. Right ? — LYNDSEY HAVENS Tinashe, Popstar Just two years ago, Tinashe released Quantum Baby — and shifted her career. That album’s lead single, “Nasty,” earned the singer her first solo Hot 100 hit and soon after, album track “No Broke Boys” shot to No. 36 thanks to a Disco Lines remix. Now, she’s back with her poppiest album yet, aptly titled Popstar. And on standout track “Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore,” she doubles down on the same point Miley makes on “Bass Persuades” — get on your feet, already, and dance . As Kyle Denis writes in Billboard ‘s Tracks Ranked of the album, “ Popstar is sneakily sarcastic and gloriously sassy, but Tinashe, unlike quite a few of her contemporaries, can actually commit — and back it up.” Read the full tracks ranked here . — L.H. Madonna and Charli xcx, “Danceteria Afterhours “ In perhaps one of the most obvious and clubbiest pairings in recent memory, Madonna taps Charli xcx to help deliver a fresh take on “Danceteria,” a track from Madonna’s July album Confessions II . On the original, Madonna sings of the famed New York club where she got her start, Danceteria; on this version, Charli shares her own starter story from a club across the pond, recalling being “sweet 15 in a weird outfit.” Clearly, things worked out just fine for them both. — L.H. Maren Morris and Michelle Branch, “Goodbye to You (2026 Version)” Nearly 25 y