NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of July 8, 2022

New releases banding together.

Regardless of whether it’s 1975 or 2022, there are plenty of amazing New Music Friday releases on the schedule, including the latest albums from Aespa, Burna Boy and Journey and singles from Blackbear, Fivio Foreign and The 1975…

Notable albums out this week: Aespa‘s Girls (Stream), Brent Faiyaz‘s Wasteland (Stream), Burna Boy‘s Love, Damini (Stream), James Bay‘s Leap (Stream), Jeremy Loops‘s Heard You Got Love (Stream), Journey‘s Freedom (Stream), Ken Carson‘s X (Stream), Kid Cudi‘s The Boy Who Flew To The Moon, Vol. 1 (Stream), Kota The Friend‘s Memo (Stream), Metric‘s Formentera (Stream), Neil Young & Crazy Horse‘s Toast (Stream), PGF Nuk‘s Switch Music (Stream), Rei Brown‘s Xeno (Stream), Renforshort‘s Dear Amelia (Stream), Tasman Keith‘s A Colour Undone (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: 27Delly‘s No Forgetting This (N.F.T.) (Stream), Arden Jones‘s Age Tape 6 (Stream), AUGUST 08‘s Towards The Moon (Stream), Badda TD & DJ Drama‘s The World Is Yours: Gangsta Grillz (Stream), FLO‘s The Lead (Stream), Laura Marano‘s Us (Stream), SSGKobe‘s Relapsed (Stream), Sydney Rose‘s You Never Met Me (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“9 Lives”, ELIO (Stream)
“29 (Freestyle)”, JID (Stream)
“32 Floors”, Låpsley (Stream)
“Adrenaline”, MASN (Stream)
“Aura”, Cuco (Stream)
“Back In Bed”, Walk Off The Earth (Stream)
“Bitch I’m Nice”, Doechii (Stream)
“Bounce”, Emotional Oranges (Stream)
“Bows”, YBN Nahmir (Stream)
“Broken”, Midwxst (Stream)
“Brown Eyes Baby”, Keith Urban (Stream)
“Café Con Leche”, Pitbull (Stream)
“Change The Locks”, King Princess (Stream)
“Coat Check”, Zach Oliver (Stream)
“Creaming Soda”, Forest Claudette (Stream)
“Dangerous State Of Mind”, Chri$tian Gate$ (Stream)
“Dead Ends/Happy Endings”, Carobae (Stream)
“Dear Soulmate”, Laufey (Stream)
“Diapers”, Key Glock (Stream)
“Die B4 U”, Montaigne (Stream)
“Eleanor”, Hot Chip (Stream)
“Fall In Love”, Russ Millions (Stream)
“Fire”, Banx & Ranx featuring JP Cooper (Stream)
“Friend Right Now”, Caleb Hearn (Stream)
“Got Me Good”, DNCE (Stream)
“Green Eyes (Acoustic)”, Jake Scott (Stream)
“Hard 2 Forget”, Steps (Stream)
“Hate”, Loyle Carner (Stream)
“Heartbreak In Boots”, Temecula Road (Stream)
“Heavy Metal Love”, Twocolors (Stream)
“History Buff”, Quinn Lewis (Stream)
“Holy Spirit”, K CAMP (Stream)
“Hypnotized”, Sophie Ellis-Bextor x Wuh Oh (Stream)
“Is Forever Off The Table?”, Carla Wehbe (Stream)
“Is It Enough”, Hope Tala (Stream)
“Isolate Myself”, Mallory Merk (Stream)
“Jump”, Ciara featuring Coast Contra (Stream)
“La Loto”, TINI, Becky G & Anitta (Stream)
“Letter”, Meg Mac (Stream)
“Live Life Die Faster”, Hotboii & Kodak Black (Stream)
“Lost Without You”, Kygo & Dean Lewis (Stream)
“Loved You Since I Was Young”, Good Problem (Stream)
“Mad At Her”, BRS Kash (Stream)
“Me On You”, Muscadine Bloodline (Stream)
“Midpoint”, Tom Chaplin (Stream)
“Missing You” / “Something About Your Love”, SG Lewis (Stream)
“Money, Love & Death”, Garrett Nash (Stream)
“Morning Blue”, Giant Rooks (Stream)
“Ms. Porter”, $NOT featuring Night Lovell (Stream)
“Never Let Me Go”, Solomon Fox (Stream)
“No Más”, Murda Beatz featuring Quavo, J Balvin, Anitta & Pharrell (Stream)
“Nobody Really Cares”, Baby Queen (Stream)
“Oceans & Engines”, NIKI (Stream)
“OTT”, Easy Life & BENEE (Stream)
“Paris To Tokyo”, Fivio Foreign featuring The Kid LAROI (Stream)
“Part Of The Band”, The 1975 (Stream)
“Post Party Trauma”, McKenna Grace (Stream)
“Rain In The Summer”, Fleurie (Stream)
“Real Life”, Jack River (Stream)
“Regret Not Loving You”, Declan J Donovan (Stream)
“Run”, Killer Mike featuring Young Thug (Stream)
“Sah Sah”, Nancy Ajram & Marshmello (Stream)
“Self-Sabotage”, Waterparks (Stream)
“Stick Season”, Noah Kahan (Stream)
“Strangers”, Bring Me The Horizon (Stream)
“Survivors Guilt”, Joey Bada$$ (Stream)
“The Devil Is Human”, AURORA (Stream)
“The Idea”, Blackbear (Stream)
“These Nights”, Loud Luxury featuring KIDDO (Stream)
“Thinkin’ We’re In Love”, Tyler Rich featuring Marie-Mai (Stream)
“Third Wheel”, Zoe Wees (Stream)
“Times Like These”, Five Finger Death Punch (Stream)
“Trouble”, Jonasu & Georgia Ku (Stream)
“Turn Up The Sunshine (PNAU Remix)”, Diana Ross & Tame Impala (Stream)
“Venus Fly Trap”, Brakence (Stream)
“Violence”, Metro Marrs & Duke Deuce (Stream)
“Volare”, Danny Ocean (Stream)
“Wasting My Time”, Dylan Wolfe (Stream)
“We Were Cowboys”, Kameron Marlowe (Stream)
“Why I Broke Up With You”, Madeline The Person (Stream)
“W.I.T.C.H.”, Devon Cole (Stream)

Next week, the new projects from J-Hope and Lizzo are among the largest releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

TURN IT UP TUESDAY: What’s New In Stores This Week (Dec. 18)

Looking to smoke the competition.

It’s the week before Christmas. Are your favorites gearing up for a big sales week? Here’s what’s new in stores this week on December 18:

• Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head is the latest release from rapper T.I., which includes the R&B hit “Ball”, featuring Lil Wayne. He’s been gaining plenty of exposure on a VH1 reality show, but will it translate into first week sales? Look for this one to at least make the top ten on the Album Chart, but it will struggle to sneak into the top five. After all, his album sales sharply dropped with his last release, No Mercy.
• A digital release of 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief is out on Wednesday, featuring live performances from Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones and more. A CD release is expected in January. It should vie for the #1 spot with over 50,000 pre-orders for the album.
• Another rapper, Chief Keef, puts out Finally Rich, led off by the single “I Don’t Like”. This should definitely enter in the top twenty.
• Initially released as a free album two summers ago, The-Dream returns with 1977, which includes a few additional tracks tacked onto the original tracklisting.
• The soundtracks from Django Unchained, Les Misérables, and Not Fade Away are all out this week, with the middle album carrying a Friday release date.
• The 35th anniversary edition of Eric Clapton‘s Slowhand is out, including a super deluxe edition with a bonus DVD and vinyl LP. The album features core 70’s hits for Clapton like “Lay Down Sally” and “Wonderful Tonight.”
• Synthetica: Deluxe is a rerelease of Metric‘s album from earlier this year, featuring five new tracks.

Other assorted music DVDs and books out this week include:

• The movie Pitch Perfect, about dueling a cappella groups.
• Rihanna‘s Loud Tour: Live At The O2 DVD, filmed back in 2011 in London.
• We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston DVD, a special concert which aired about a month ago.

Lastly, the new digital-only singles that you can buy this week:

• Singer Dido, notable for hits like “Thank You” and “White Flag”, returns with “Let Us Move On”, featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar.
• Josh Groban, who goes for a poppier sound on “Brave”, the first single from All That Echoes.
• Rapper Kid Cudi releases a new track, “King Wizard”.
• Country star turned tabloid darling LeAnn Rimes releases “Borrowed”, currently at Country radio.

Enjoy all the new music out this week! Turn It Up Tuesday will return on January 8 due to Christmas and New Year’s Day.