Between surprise releases and songs fans have been waiting for months to hear, music fans had plenty of new tunes to listen to this week.
Leading the pack on Friday (Sept. 5) was Justin Bieber, who gave fans a less-than-24-hour heads up that he’d be dropping the second part of his other surprise 2025 release. The aptly-titled Swag II sees Bieber picking up where he left off on Swag, continuing with the alt-R&B sound he curated so carefully on his last release. This time, though, Bieber recruits a few more faces to help him out, including features on the album from Tems, Hurricane Chris and Eddie Benjamin.
Over in pop, Lady Gaga brought her Mayhem era back to life with “The Dead Dance,” a new song she wrote specifically for the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday that fits just as well within her latest dance-pop era. The grooving disco bass lines keep the tempo going as Gaga declares that she’ll keep “dancin’ until I’m dead.”
Meanwhile, Drake continued the rollout for his new Iceman project, this time with “Somebody Loves Me Pt. 2” featuring his $ome $exy $ongs 4 U partner PartyNextDoor, as well as rising hip-hop star Cash Cobain. Part remix , part rewrite, this new version of his and Party’s single sees Drake turning up the heat on “Somebody Loves Me” before handing the mic over to Cobain for a fiery new verse.
Plus, Big Thief return with their slimmed-down but sonically-vast new album Double Infinity, Calvin Harris and Jessie Reyez team up for a swim in the “Ocean” and 3Quency keep the girl group summer going strong with “Top Down.”
With such a stacked roster of new music out this week, Billboard wants to know which release is your favorite. Tell us your pick by voting in the poll below!
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