{"id":286127,"date":"2026-02-07T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286127\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:20:21","slug":"who-has-the-best-new-music-release-this-week-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286127\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Has the Best New Music Release This Week? Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first week of February has already gone by in a flurry, with several major artists dropping new music to ring in the month. And \u2014 like all the snowflakes clinging to much of the continental United States after severe winter weather earlier in the year \u2014 no two releases are alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a year that\u2019s already been packed with new music from former One Direction band members \u2014 with Harry Styles dropping <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>-topper \u201cAperture\u201d and Louis Tomlinson sharing new album How Did I Get Here? in January \u2014 Zayn Malik entered the fold. On the heels of a surprise announcement that he also has another album in the works (titled Konnakol), the British superstar dropped its lead single, \u201cDie for Me,\u201d on Friday (Feb. 6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat same day, two other stars unveiled sprawling LPs. Nick Jonas\u2019 Sunday Best arrives with 12 tracks and one collaboration with his Jonas Brothers bandmates\/siblings, Joe and Kevin, and J. Cole\u2019s highly anticipated The Fall-Off comes with twice as many songs spread out across two discs. As for new singles, sombr \u2014 fresh off a memorable best new artist medley performance at the Grammys on Sunday (Feb. 1) \u2014 has shared \u201cHomewrecker,\u201d while Joji is back with a song called \u201cHotel California\u201d that precedes upcoming album Piss in the Wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut which of those releases is your favorite this week? Billboard wants to know. Whether you\u2019re bracing against the cold or enjoying more temperate climates in other, warmer parts of the world, tell us which new project you\u2019re keeping on repeat as February kicks into gear by voting in the poll below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"c-logo lrv-a-unstyle-link u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-width-100p  u-max-width-100 u-height-26 u-max-width-130px@mobile-max u-margin-t-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" title=\"Billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-accent-l@desktop u-font-size-1205 a-font-accent-xs@mobile-max u-font-size-15@mobile-max u-line-height-22px@mobile-max lrv-u-text-align-center@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0030@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-a-00 u-padding-t-0125@mobile-max u-padding-b-0063@mobile-max\">Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-button lrv-u-cursor-pointer lrv-u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-background-color-black:hover lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover u-padding-lr-0.875 u-padding-tb-10 lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-align-items-center a-font-basic-fancy-xs u-margin-t-0.188 u-margin-b-0188 u-margin-b-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first week of February has already gone by in a flurry, with several major artists dropping new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,4279],"class_list":["post-286127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-music-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}