It’s Gracie Abrams’ week, and we’re just living in it. The U.S. pop artist today dropped Daughter From Hell, her third studio effort and the followup to 2024’s The Secret of Us, which went all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

One of its 16 tracks is “Minibar,” which Abrams and her full band performed late Thursday on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a delicious entrée to her full album.

For the debut TV performance, Abrams slung an acoustic guitar and got to work with her full band, all of them bathed in a warm red light. Watch below.

Abrams also stuck around for a chat with Fallon. Right off the bat, Abrams confirmed she’s about to make her acting debut. “It’s happening. Yes, I leave very, very shortly,” she said, moving swiftly along before offering more details on what’s reported to be an A24 movie from Babygirl director Halina Reijn.

On her new album project, it’s “so cool for me,” he adds. “I feel stoked. It’s been nice to be back with the crew and band. And to kind of just, yeah, reunite. And the people that I made this with, I respect and admire so much.”

Abrams recounted how she freaked out during her 2025 Glastonbury Festival performance when she spotted Paul McCartney on the sidelines (there’s proof, caught on video), a neat segue to her forthcoming The Look at My Life tour. As the buzz built, her last tour scaled up to big rooms. This time, however, “we get the luxury of starting square one, like, wildest dreams kind of stage and design. Yeah, I’m really excited.”

Abrams will head out on her North America jaunt from Dec. 2 in Denver.

And for the record, the “Daughter From Hell” in that album really is Abrams. “That song was the last one that I wrote for the album, and it is like a, you know, decades overdue apology to my mom, basically,” she tells Fallon.” No, she wasn’t a monster child. Just a “defiant person,” which can be “turbulent” for mom and dad. “This is a thank-you note to her.”

Watch below.

In a sliding doors moment, Oliver Cronin might be jostling for a place in Australia’s national cricket team instead of releasing his own creations through Warner Music.

The breakout Australian artist was born and raised in Mullumbimby, a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, not far from Byron Bay. That dot on the map has produced Amy Taylor, the iconic singer with Amyl And The Sniffers, and Amethyst Kelly, better known by her former rap name Iggy Azalea. Add Cronin’s name to that list of Mullum’s music luminaries.

It might’ve been an entirely different journey. As a young teen, it was cricket, not music or even surfing, that dominated Cronin’s dreams. A talented bowler of the ball, throwing it down with pace, Cronin was selected for state teams. Before he would get the call from national team selectors, Cronin fell hard for music. “I had to choose between music and cricket because I understood what it took to be elite at something. And it takes a lot,” he tells Billboard.

He went all-in with music, and never looked back.

Cronin was a bright student, and a career in engineering awaited. He followed his music dreams, with the support of his mom, who studied and taught music, played in bands, and introduced the youngster to rhythm and melody before he could walk; and his father, a former professional photographer, now author.

If he was to tread that tricky path, he would need to study at a school of rock. Cronin, with his parents’ assistance, pursued a daily “regime” where, for the first three hours of the day, he’d study the music business, then write songs for several hours, and finish up with music videos and tutorials of artistry and the business behind it.

Now aged 24, Oliver has a record deal with Warner Music Australia, and the new EP Lost On The Way To Paradise, out today, July 17. Playing in the space between pop and R&B, the seven-song collection gathers the previously released cuts “Closure,” “7500 Miles,” and “Eyes Wide Shut.”

It’s the followup to 2024’s Halfway To Paradise, released in a year when he performed showcases and promo tours in North America, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and caught the attention of WMG executives around the globe, culminating in a global partnership with Warner Records.

Halfway To Paradise expanded at the start of 2025 with Edge Of Paradise, a deluxe edition including the track “Maria,” a collaboration with Filipino band Lola Amour.

Cronin first signed with Warner Music in 2019, and released his debut Beautiful Nightmare in 2022, an EP that featured “Boys Don’t Cry,” a cut that caught fire on TikTok, a platform on which he boasts 1.1 million followers. Several releases have gone viral in India, the Philippines, and Germany.

Earlier this year, Cronin stepped out of his comfort zone and onto the catwalk. He debuted his 6’4” frame at Australian Fashion Week 2026 where he walked in Christian Kimber’s show — a moment he describes as “very scary” and “a bit of fun.”

With the release today of another slice of Paradise, Cronin has similar feelings.

“It’s always weird when I’m about to release music,” he told Billboard earlier this week. “Especially because this body of work is so personal to me and so, like, vulnerable and I sometimes have trouble letting go of these songs. I think once they’re out into the world, it’s no longer really mine. It’s kind of up,” he continues. “It’s for people to interpret and to listen to and to make their memories from my songs. So right now I’m holding on to the last little bit I have of these songs to be mine until they’re all out into the world. I’m excited because it’s been a long time since I’ve dropped a project.”

Stream Lost On The Way To Paradise below.

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 Madonna, Sienna Spiro, Riley Green and more.

This week: Gracie Abrams shares her anticipated this album, Daughter From Hell (read Billboard‘s tracks ranked here); Steve Lacy is back with his self-produced third album, Oh yeah?; and Carly Rae Jepsen continues her Day and Night rollout with the release of the upcoming double album’s second single… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Gracie Abrams, Daughter From Hell

Gracie Abrams’ third album is finally here, just two years after The Secret of Us helped the pop singer emerge as a fast-rising star as the project debuted at No. 2 Billboard 200, bolstered by hit single “That’s So True.” This time, Abrams returned to producer Aaron Dessner’s Long Pond studio to craft the sonically intimate and lyrically expansive Daughter From Hell, led by surging singles “Hit the Wall” and “Look at My Life.” Release day focus track “Good Reason” is softer in its contemplation, as Abrams sings of putting herself first. “If only I chose you and not me/ If only I had a good reason,” she sings, with the quiet confidence of knowing she never needed one at all.

Steve Lacy, Oh yeah?

It’s been almost four years since Steve Lacy dropped his Grammy-winning Gemini Rights sophomore album and ascended to Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper status with “Bad Habit.” Now, the Internet alum has unveiled his third studio album, Oh Yeah?, which finds him sharing some of his most personal lyrics to date over whimsical fusions of synths and guitars. Featuring appearances by SZA, Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe, Oh Yeah? remains committed to The Funk™ — even in its most somber and self-effacing moments. — KYLE DENIS

Carly Rae Jepsen, “After All”

In late June, Carly Rae Jepsen announced a mega 24-track double album coming this September. Titled Day and Night, the album is fittingly divided into two sonic halves: a psychedelic pop side (Day) and a dance-pop side (Night). While lead single “On Wires,” which arrived with the album, feels distinctly day for its rock riffs and alternative feel, “After All” sounds more akin to nighttime. Boasting sleeker, tighter production, Jepsen dips into her falsetto on the song’s chorus accompanied by subtle hand claps that lead right into a groovy instrumental break — perfect for hitting the dancefloor. — L.H.

Bella Kay, “i deserve better”

Bella Kay opted out of a standard Friday release for her debut album, My Reckless Abandon, which she dropped over the weekend on July 12. Featuring her breakout hit “iloveitiloveitiloveit,” the album’s 13 tracks showcase the promising singer-songwriter’s range, which snaps into focus on closing song “i deserve better,” which staunchly contrasts the chaos-loving nature of a song like “iloveit.” Instead, Kay admits that “I love to blame myself/ It’s all on me when it goes to hell/ But this time, I don’t think that’s true…I’m not perfect, not ever/ But I still deserve better.” — L.H.

Dexter and The Moonrocks, “If You Could Talk”

Emerging Texas rockers Dexter and The Moonrocks broke out this March with “Freakin’ Out,” which earned the band its first Hot 100 entry. Now, the self-defined “Western space grunge” act is back with follow-up single “If You Could Talk,” a punchy track that plays with shifting tempo, building slowly into a proper rock song before winding back down — as if peeling back layers of a band as it continues to reveal itself in real time, and in front of a fast-growing fanbase. — L.H.

Rick Ross, Set in Stone 

Ricky Rozay is back with Set in Stone, his first solo studio album in five years. Though he’s spent most of 2026 celebrating the 20th anniversary of his beloved debut album, Port of Miami, the new 19-track set finds Ross living in the present. Assisted by a mind-boggling amalgamation of collaborators — including Leon Thomas, Don Toliver, Yung Miami, Max B, Jeezy and BigXthaPlug — Set in Stone delivers more of Ross’ signature luxury rap, this time from the perspective of an MC with two decades in the game. — K.D. 

Buju Banton, Too Too Bad 

Serving as a pseudo-sequel to 2006’s Too Bad, Buju Banton’s highly anticipated Too Too Bad has officially landed, complete with 13 rollicking reggae and dancehall tracks. In addition to his viral take on DJ MAC & CrashDummy’s “WYFL” riddim (“X Rated”), Too Too Bad also boasts collaborations with Gramps Morgan, Ari Lennox and DJ Khaled. Notably, Too Too Bad also marks the Grammy winner’s sixth release under VP Records, the label to which he recently returned after 23 years thanks to a newly minted deal. — K.D. 

The members of BTS take stock after a large night, shake off the cobwebs, and make themselves right at home in the music video for “NORMAL,” which is available to watch first on Spotify for a 48-hour exclusive.

Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Tanu Muino, the clip dropped at midnight and features each of BTS’ seven members, capturing them letting off stream and in “deeply personal and intimate moments,” a statement reads. If there’s an eighth wonder, it’s the stately old mansion which hosts the lads. It’s a country pile that holds secrets, dozens of empty wine glasses and flashbacks the giveaway.

The wintry video gives us the now-viral image of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook standing before a row of toilets, bringing the teaser campaign full circle, and we’re treated to a fine collection of dogs. And a swan.

“NORMAL” is housed on BTS’ fifth and latest studio album ARIRANG, and is the second single from it, after “SWIM.”

Interscope/Capitol Records will begin working “NORMAL” to pop radio as of the week beginning July 27.

“SWIM” sailed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April, as ARIRANG rolled to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The titles became the superstar septet’s seventh leader on each list.

On the live front, the BTS juggernaut is powering through the Continental Europe leg of a world tour in support of ARIRANG. Up next, concerts tonight and Saturday at Paris’ Stade De France, and on Sunday, July 19, the K-pop superstars will join Justin Bieber, Madonna and Shakira as co-headliners at the first FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

To watch BTS’ “NORMAL” music video, Premium subscribers in beta markets can open Spotify on their TV, desktop, iOS or Android device, search for and play “NORMAL” by BTS, and tap “Switch to video”. The music video will start playing right where the song left off.

For a full-screen experience on mobile, simply turn your device to landscape mode. And to return to background listening, simply press “Switch to audio.”

Stream the “NORMAL” EP below.

After spending last summer playing arenas and amphitheaters, Gracie Abrams is ready for her close-up. The 26-year-old singer dropped her third full-length studio album on Friday (July 17), the 16-track Daughter From Hell. Prefaced by the introspective first single, “Hit the Wall” — which peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the new collection has been referred to by Abrams as her “favorite music” she’s made to date.

The follow-up to Abrams’ 2024 Billboard 200 No. 2 LP The Secret of Us once again finds her teaming up with The National guitarist/composer Aaron Dessner, who, along with his twin brother and bandmate Bryce Dessner, helped write and produce “Hit the Wall.” Aaron Dessner is listed as a cowriter on 14 of the album’s 16 tracks, while frequent Olivia Rodrigo producer-songwriter Dan Nigro has a coproduction credit on the fretful, am-I-doing-it-all-wrong song second single, “Look At My Life.”

Elsewhere, Mumford & Sons singer Marcus Mumford pops in for a guest vocal on the tune Abrams has said is her favorite on the LP, “What If It’s Right?,” and Abrams’ boyfriend, actor Paul Mescal, has a cowriting credit on “Imaginary Friend.” Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is listed as the coproducer of “Hit the Wall” and has a cowriting and coproduction credit on “Broke My Heart,” one of several songs on which he also contributes additional vocals.

“It’s definitely my favorite music I’ve ever made, and I feel very closely connected to it,” Abrams told The Hollywood Reporter in January. “I appreciate so much that these albums are time capsules of where I’m at in my life at any given point, but right now it does feel very like me. I hope that whoever finds it, connects with it and that they make it theirs when it’s out one day. But not yet.”

In a recent Spotify conversation about songwriting, friend Olivia Rodrigo said the Daughter From Hell song “Afflictions” is her favorite so far, calling it “pure, but also very mature. It feels like the love is very deep and not superficial.” Abrams agreed, admitting that she has a hard time writing about love and tends to avoid it if she can. “When I’ve tried to write about it before, it kind of diminishes what it actually feels like. But that [song] is super real for me,” Abrams said.

The pair also talked about the more negative relationships explored on Daughter From Hell, with Abrams saying she approached them differently than she has in the past. “I was careful about writing about conflict and pain from less of a place of pointing fingers and more so of having been on both sides, like, of both the protagonist and the antagonist of each song,” Abrams said. “There’s songs about tough friendships or a kind of a breakup … I was careless in the past writing music about how it might impact the subject, and I don’t like that. I wish I could go back and fix it. And I feel like moving forward, with this album.”

Abrams’ The Look at My Life tour will begin playing North American arenas beginning on Dec. 2 in Denver.

Listen to Daughter From Hell below.

Drake showed love to everyone attending opening day ceremonies for Kai Cenat‘s Streamer University yesterday (July 15).

Cenat was speaking to the invitees during an assembly when he announced that he had a message from the Toronto rapper.

“2026, back for another year,” Drake said via video message. “Congratulations to everybody that got accepted — all the new creators, all the veteran creators. I hope you guys make the most of this opportunity. I hope you learn something. I hope you’re able to teach each other things.”

Drake added that his OVO team had provided gifts for this year’s attendees who are staying at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas through July 20. “And behalf of us at OVO, I left you something…well, actually I left you a few things in your room to make the stay even easier,” Drake told the excited streamers. “So, shout out to Kai, Streamer University 2026. Enjoy.”

Some of the items unboxxed by the Twitch streamers include cologne, Nike clothing and OVO merch.

This is the second year of the innovative streaming bootcamp. The first Streamer University, hosted at the University of Akron in Ohio, won best streamed event at the 2025 Streamer Awards and clocked upwards of 20 millions hours watched on Twitch.

During a stream last June, Cenat revealed that he had to take legal action in order to own the name and the intellectual property to Streamer University, so that no one would be able to steal or redo the idea in its current iteration. “For Streamer University, the idea was so big that I had to take legal action into owning the idea, owning the name and making it mine because it was influencing a lot of people to just redo it, redo it, redo it,” he told the chat in 2025. “But we had to secure it and we gotta make this sh-t special. Streamer University, have full ownership. The name itself, have full ownership.”

You can watch the full stream of Streamer University’s 2026 Opening Ceremony below.

Post Malone looks to be retiring his cowboy hat, for now. Posty teased new music on Instagram on Thursday (July 16), which appears to find him tapping back into his rap roots.

“That one mofo that don’t know when to leave,” he captioned the clip, which sees Post slugging a Bud Light and puffing on a cigarette.

The unreleased track features Post’s signature melodic rapping sound that fans fell in love with on albums like beerbongs & bentleys and Hollywood’s Bleeding and could signal his sonic direction for his upcoming LP. “All my money clean, not a damn stain on me/ I would pop a bean, 2016 Stoney,” he raps on the new snippet.

“Ohhhhh this a hit,” Tyla Yaweh said in a comment, lending his stamp of approval. Fans in the comments seemed to welcome Post Malone’s return to hip-hop as well.

Post’s last rap album came with 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He leaned more into pop with 2023’s Austin and made a country pivot on 2024’s F-1 Trillion, which boasted hits like “I Had Some Help,” featuring country titan Morgan Wallen, which topped the Billboard Hot 100.

The 31-year-old has been gearing up for his next album, The Eternal Buzz, which remains without a firm release date. He first spoke about the project to Billboard at Coachella last year, where he detailed recording the LP in Nashville and already had 35 songs under his belt.

Post Malone broke out as a rapper with top 20 Hot 100 hit “White Iverson” in 2016, and blossomed into a potent hitmaker with Hot 100 No. 1s like “Psycho” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, “Rockstar” with 21 Savage, “Circles” and “Sunflower” with Swae Lee.

Listen to the snippet from Post Malone below.

Gracie Abrams is bringing us heaven in celebrating her new album, Daughter From Hell.

The project marks the pop singer-songwriter’s first full-length since her Billboard 200 No. 2-debuting The Secret of Us in 2023. Ahead of her third studio set’s release, Abrams unveiled two preliminary singles led by “Hit the Wall,” which reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Look at My Life.” So far, the rest of the album’s 16 tracks are yet-to-be released — at least, not as studio recordings.

To kick off release week, Abrams hosted a free show at the Bowery Ballroom in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday (July 14) where a few hundred lucky Capital One cardholders got the opportunity to hear a handful of new songs live for the first time, plus some fan favorites (see the full setlist below). In addition to performing her prerelease singles, she sang six brand new songs from the project, including “Imaginary Friend,” which she recently revealed was co-written by her boyfriend, Paul Mescal.

A few hours before, Abrams sat down backstage to exclusively share early snippets of two other songs off the Aaron Dessner-produced project and chat about how they came to be in the Billboard original short form series, Voice Memo Demo.

Scrolling through the voice memos on her caseless silver iPhone, she eventually pulled up the original “verse-melody-pass” for what is now track 8 on the album, “Sober.” In the recording, we hear Abrams scratchily humming a soft melody a cappella, which she shared was inspired by an instrumental Dessner sent over.

“That melody isn’t even in the song anymore,” she quipped a few seconds into playing us the recording, which she said turned into a song that reminds her of something that could live on her first studio album, Good Riddance.

“Anyway, I love this song,” she continued. “It’s a song about in time, or in another life — this yearning quality. I thought about the girls who might dig a yearn.”

She also shared a similar very early recording of “Mews,” where she hums atop simple piano chords. After hitting pause on the memo, Abrams explained how the song was inspired by the London studio of the same name that it was recorded in.

“It sort of is like the most ballad-y ballad I’ve ever written, I think,” she said. “There’s something that feels classic about it that I loved right away.” She revealed the Macedonian Orchestra plays strings on the track, highlighting its build to the bridge.

She continued: “It sits in a place vocally that’s a bit uncharted for me, so stretching in that capacity was exciting.”

Daughter From Hell is out Friday (July 17).

Gracie Abrams: Live from the Bowery Ballroom in celebration of Daughter from Hell Setlist

Live debuts are bolded below.

Beck is returning from Hyperspace after seven long years. The “Saw Lightning” singer announced the long-awaited follow-up to that 2019 Grammy-winning LP on Wednesday (July 15), when he revealed that his 16th studio album, Ride Lonesome, is due out on Sept. 18 via Capitol Records.

“My new album Ride Lonesome is coming out this fall. The musicians from my original touring and recording band that I recorded Sea Change, Morning Phase and Mutations with — Smokey Hormel [guitar], Joey Waronker [drums], Justin Meldal-Johnsen [bass], Roger Joseph Manning Jr. [keyboards], and Jason Falkner [guitar] — reconvened with me at my favorite studio (Room B at United Studios in Hollywood),” said Beck in a statement about reuniting his crack band from those classic albums.

“We had [producer] Nigel Godrich, who worked on Sea Change and Mutations with us mixing all the songs. It had been a decade since we went in the studio and recorded Morning Phase,” Beck added. “This time It felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened — a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together.  While we were revisiting a musical and physical place, it also felt like we were finding new sounds and emotional textures along the way.”

Beck released the contemplative, can’t-put-your-arms-around-a-memory title track in April, which taps into a similar haunted-by-love vibe as the just-released second single, “In the Night.” The ghostly ballad featuring finger-picked acoustic guitar, a swaying string section and subtle horns is anchored by the indie veteran’s sad and lonesome vocals.

“Darkness came on by/ With stories of the sky/ To bury all the lies/ In the night, in the night/ Your teachers and your saints/ They’ll walk you to the grave/ And say you’ll find your way,” he sings on the tune that was accompanied by an equally pensive video directed by Mikai Karl starring French character actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors, Gagarine). In the clip, Lavant is filmed crying over some unseen emotional challenge, then lighting a cigarette and shaking his head as he tosses his fedora aside and moodily contemplates his fate while pacing around a cramped apartment.

The tracklist for Ride Lonesome is: “Ride Lonesome,” “Run Away,” “In the Night,” “Failed Words,” “Bleep,” “Disappearing Act,” “For Your Love,” “Slow Canyon,” “It Ends Right Here,” “Falling Through My Hands,” “If You Don’t Know What Love Is” and “Beyond the Light.”

Beck will support the new album on the Ride Lonesome North American tour, slated to kick off on Sept. 16 in Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and run through an Oct. 31 show at The Truth in Nashville.

Watch the “In the Night” video below.