{"id":661549,"date":"2026-10-30T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661549\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:48:11","slug":"dominic-fike-mariah-carey-lead-best-new-music-friday-music-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661549\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Fike & Mariah Carey Lead Best New Music: Friday Music Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBillboard\u2019s Friday Music Guide<\/a> serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday\u2019s most essential releases each week \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.<\/p>\n

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See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week<\/a>, we featured LISA, Miley, Kacey Musgraves & John Mayer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, Dominic Fike drops his first LP as a minted hitmaker; Mariah Carey takes another glance at her polarizing Glitter project and Queens of the Stone Age turns down the amps for its ninth album\u2026 plus much more.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out all of this week\u2019s picks below:<\/p>\n

\n\tDominic Fike, How to Quit Smoking<\/p>\n

\n\tIt feels like one of 2026\u2019s most-anticipated LPs, given how this was the year that mainstream-adjacent singer-songwriter Dominic Fike belatedly proved himself as a pop hitmaker, with the long-running Hot 100 hits \u201cBabydoll\u201d and \u201cWhite Keys.\u201d But while How to Quit Smoking is one of the autumn\u2019s most satisfying arrivals, its relatively lo-fi, genre-agnostic vibes show how unlikely Fike\u2019s top 40 dalliances were in the first place \u2014\u00a0including with \u201cWhite Keys,\u201d present here as something of an album centerpiece \u2014 and how another such hit is far from required for the album to be deemable as a success. Its charms are mostly gentle and acoustic, but with at least a toe kept in hip-hop, leading to winningly unpredictable moments like the Danny Brown guest verse on \u201cNot the Spirit,\u201d an ODB interpolation on \u201cNot the Spirit\u201d and a thoroughly disarming Tay-K appearance (via phone) that closes the album. <\/p>\n

\n\tGracie Abrams, \u201cHere You Come, There You Go\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Cher Horowitz once said about report card grades, it appears that album releases are just a jumping-off point to start negotiations for Gracie Abrams. After scoring the biggest hit of her The Secret of Us era in 2024 with the deluxe edition cut \u201cThat\u2019s So True,\u201d it feels like she could be on track for a second straight bonus high-water mark with \u201cHere You Come, There You Go,\u201d lead track from her upcoming Daughter From Hell deluxe edition. While that album could sometimes drift through a little unobtrusively, \u201cHere You Come\u201d demands your attention from its opening bass rumble and arresting opening line (\u201cHell froze in my bedroom\u201d), displaying the extra bite and musical development many pop fans have long hoped to hear from her. <\/p>\n

\n\tBigXThaPlug, Better Over Time<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter hosting a hip-hop rodeo on 2025\u2019s country-infused I Hope You\u2019re Happy, BigXThaPlug is back in his rap bag with Better Over Time. Stacked with a starry line-up of guest artists, including Leon Thomas, Belly Gang Kushington, Lil Yachty, Glorilla, Loe Shimmy and Ava Max, BigX\u2019s latest LP recounts the pricklier moments of remaining independent amid his mainstream surge, while also showcasing his ear for radio-minded hooks. \u2014 KYLE DENIS<\/p>\n

\n\tMariah Carey, Glitter\u00a0(Digital Deluxe Edition)<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether you believe Glitter to be a lost classic in the Mariah Carey catalog or a frivolous misstep, it certainly at least deserves to be given a second look, one removed from both the historic tragedies that surrounded the movie\u2019s September 2001 release and the personal drama that took its serious toll on Carey\u2019s career and mental health around the time. This week\u2019s deluxe edition of the much-maligned soundtrack (to the much-more-maligned starring vehicle) may earn some reconsideration for its second disc of bonus-cut rarities \u2014\u00a0including the fragile Irene Cara cover \u201cOut Here on My Own\u201d and the \u201cFirecracker\u201d-lifting original version of lead single \u201cLoverboy\u201d \u2014 but just as importantly, it\u2019ll just inspire fans to give its original 12 tracks another spin, capturing Mimi in a fun and sporadically revealing \u201980s throwback moment that remains worth revisiting.<\/p>\n

\n\tQueens of the Stone Age, Perfecth<\/p>\n

\n\tGood news for Josh Homme\u2019s neighbors: The volume of the ninth Queens of the Stone Age album has been kept at a relatively manageable level, with the searing riffs and punishing drums that once characterized the band now somewhat mellowed. Which is not to say Perfecth doesn\u2019t rock, but it largely does so via groovier jams like the \u201970s AM boogie of \u201cInsginificant Other\u201d or the acoustic shuffle of \u201cEasy Street\u201d \u2014\u00a0while still finding room to kick out the jams on heavier cuts like southern-fried advance single \u201cWhere the Goth Girls At?\u201d and KISS-via-Bowie strutter \u201cSunday.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tGigi Perez, \u201cFavor\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe runtime is the first thing you notice about Gigi Perez\u2019s contribution to the soundtrack to the latest Hunger Games movie \u2014\u00a0an epic 5:35, practically symphonic territory by TikTok generation standards. But \u201cFavor\u201d earns its runtime, developing patiently, swelling to a thunderous climax and even bringing it back down again, as Perez\u2019s high-drama stylings proves a perfect match for the film series\u2019 rousing-but-unsettling musical brand. It might get you excited for Sunrise on the Reaping, but it\u2019ll definitely get you pumped for Perez\u2019s hopefully imminent sophomore album. <\/p>\n

\n\tTEEKS, Lovers Comet<\/p>\n

\n\tFive years after sharing his 2021 debut full-length, Something to Feel, New Zealand soul artist TEEKS is back with his luscious sophomore offering, Lovers Comet. Featuring the scintillating \u201cMy Boy\u201d and the Song of Achilles-inspired \u201cOverdose,\u201d Lovers Comet finds the Aotearoa singer-songwriter exploring the vast expanse of love across space, time and sexuality. This is the perfect record to usher in the cozy season.\u00a0 \u2014 K.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billboard\u2019s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday\u2019s most essential releases each week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,135122,2646,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-661549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-friday-music-guide","tag-genre-pop","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}