{"id":618790,"date":"2026-10-02T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618790\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:40:11","slug":"victoria-monet-drake-noah-kahan-best-new-music-this-week-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618790\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Monet, Drake & Noah Kahan: Best New Music This Week Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first New Music Friday<\/a> of October certainly bodes well for the rest of the month.<\/p>\n

\n\tNoah Kahan leads this week\u2019s round-up with \u201cDraw You Out,\u201d the haunting new single from the highly anticipated soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. \u201cIf I have to sit there in the studio and put a lot of love into it, I don\u2019t know if I can connect with it if I don\u2019t feel like parts of me are in there,\u201d he told Billboard<\/a> about the Aaron Dessner cowritten and coproduced song. \u201cI really do feel proud of being able to find that balance on this song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week also features Lil Nas X\u2019s comeback single \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest,\u201d dedicated to his late mother, as well as Holly Humberstone\u2019s \u201cToo Cute to Be Lonely,\u201d the first single from her forthcoming deluxe album Cruel World\u2026So It Ends. We also got new singles from Hilary Duff (\u201cCatastrophic\u201d from the upcoming The Cat in the Hat film), Souldified (\u201cMan Ain\u2019t Me\u201d), Yung Miami, (\u201c2008\u201d \/ \u201cF You\u201d), Megan Thee Stallion (\u201cTina Tuesday Freestyle\u201d), Fontaines D.C. (\u201cTongue\u201d), Martin Garrix (\u201cThis Dream of You\u201d), Brakence (\u201cCrystallized\u201d \/ \u201cDeath Roll\u201d), Rachel Cinouriri (\u201cBroken Chair\u201d), Michael Kiwanuka (\u201cSummer Clothes\u201d), Lucky Daye (\u201cTalk to Me\u201d), Kameron Marlowe (\u201cTake You Down With Me\u201d), HARDY (\u201cMan in the Box\u201d), Blaqbonez & Asake (\u201cIkebe 3000\u201d), xaviersobased (\u201cOff Tha Meter\u201d) and Jah Vinci (\u201cClock It\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the album side, Victoria Mon\u00e9t leads the way with Frequency of Love, her lush, 22-track follow-up to her three-time Grammy-winning debut studio album, Jaguar II. Featuring collaborations with Bruno Mars, SZA, Leon Thomas, Lucky Daye and Bryson Tiller, the shimmering set is a love letter to R&B. Holding it down for hip-hop, Drake reloaded his HABIBTI album with a FOMO deluxe edition featuring four new tracks, including collaborations with Don Toliver and Yebba.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot only did fast-rising alternative-grunge band Dexter and the Moonrocks drop its debut LP, Friends That I Don\u2019t Like, but country superstar Miranda Lambert also shared her new Crisco album, which features an appearance by recent Billboard Hot 100<\/a> history-maker Ella Langley. Monokoi, the solo project of Colombian artist Camilo S\u00e1nchez, unveiled its Geometr\u00eda del Universo debut album. And Randy Nota Loca of Jowell y Randy released Romances de una Nota III, the final installment of the three-part solo project he launched in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis New Music Friday boasts loads of new projects from artists across genres, including Quadeca (Life 1), Lalah Hathaway (Made in Chicago), BNXN (Still in Charge EP), The Paradox (Proceed with Caution EP), Meshell Ndegeocello (Synonym), Ari Lennox (Vacancy: Late Checkout), Quavo (QR\u00d6MELIFE), RYL0 (5T4RP0W3R), Jamal Roberts (The Journey), Zagga & Shakespeare (White River EP), Gavin Adcock (The Day I Hang It Up), NoCap (Heaven on Mars), Mac Miller (The Divine Feminine \u2013 10th Anniversary), The Beatles (Rubber Soul \u2013 Super Deluxe), Ms. GREEN APPLE (POPS), Wynona (The Hard Truth), Stevie Wonder (Songs In the Key of Life \u2013 The EP) and The Chicks (Taking the Long Way Home \u2013 20th Anniversary Edition).<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich of these songs, EPs and albums are you most hyped about this week? Let Billboard know which release will be in constant rotation this weekend by voting for your favorite in the poll below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first New Music Friday of October certainly bodes well for the rest of the month. Noah Kahan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,2526,3295,34116,157,3296,7936,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-618790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-genre-pop","tag-genre-rb","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-music-poll","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}