Ariana Grande, Cardi B, Shaboozey, Slayyyter & More: New Music Friday Guide
Categoria: Musica
Check out the must-hear releases of the week.
Por Billboard | 31/07/2026
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 Charli xcx, Tyla, Morgan Wallen and more. This week: Ariana Grande drops her anticipated new album Petal ; Cardi B shares a surprise single; Shaboozey’s epic 20-track concept album arrives; and Slayyyter releases her latest single after debuting it during the first night of her tour that kicked off this week… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below: Ariana Grande, Petal Ariana Grande is as equally talented as she is prolific — fortunately for us fans. From her 2013 debut album through 2020, she released an impressive six albums. And since 2024’s return with Eternal Sunshine, the pop superstar has been churning out new projects at a similar clip, following it up with 2025’s deluxe edition, Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead , and now this year’s petal . Grande’s eighth studio album is a fierce culmination of everything she has lived and learned — all of which she has chronicled across her previous releases. Only now, she’s talking her s–t, and not taking it from anyone else. As Kyle Denis writes in Billboard ‘s Tracks Ranked for petal : “It’s pretty much a manicured middle finger aimed directly at the public.” Turns out, Ari can even make rage sound oh so sweet. — LYNDSEY HAVENS Cardi B, “AH HA” We may have gotten a brand-new album of bops and bangers from Bardi last year in Am I the Drama? , but the Grammy-winning rap superstar has her eyes set on a last-minute Song of the Summer victory with her new single, “AH HA.” “B—es be swearing they so f—ing bad, I don’t see it/ N—a can’t trap me, I won’t keep it/ B—es really hate me, and so be it/ Bathroom floors and these h—s both heated,” she spits over a club-ready, 808-laden beat that quickly morphs into an anthemic sing-rap chorus that’s sure to soundtrack the remainder of the summer and beyond. — KYLE DENIS Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez & Becky G, “Te Olvido (La La)” In an ode to their Mexican-American heritage, Selena Gomez and Becky G, along with Benny Blanco as producer, released “Te Olvido (La La),” a Spanish-language track from Blanco’s upcoming studio album Hermoso . Its title, which translates to “I’ll Forget You,” is the second single from the project. It blends a predominant cumbia sound with pop and features a mariachi interlude on which Gomez and G trade lyrics, confronting a love interest who sends mixed signals and acts possessively all while avoiding a serious relationship: “Amor mio/ ¿Qué tienes conmigo?/ Que no me quieres con nadie, pero tampoco contigo. (My love/ What do you want with me?/ You d