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\n\tBillboard\u2019s\u00a0Friday Music Guide<\/a>\u00a0serves as a handy guide to this Friday\u2019s most essential releases \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tThis week, Megan Moroney has her fans on Cloud Nine<\/em>, Baby Keem looks to avoid the sophomore slump, Hilary Duff is feeling Luck<\/em>-y, and SZA is back to \u201cSave the Day\u201d with a new soundtrack single\u2026 Check out all of this week\u2019s picks below.<\/p>\n \n\tMegan Moroney, Cloud Nine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tFew country albums this year will be as highly anticipated as Megan Moroney<\/a>\u2018s junior full-length<\/a>, arriving two years after sophomore set Am I Okay?<\/em> brought her to the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time. Fans already know \u201c6 Months Later,\u201d \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d and \u201cWish I Didn\u2019t\u201d \u2014\u00a0all already Billboard Hot 100 hits \u2014\u00a0but new tracks like \u201cMedicine\u201d and \u201cStupid\u201d further reinforce Moroney as the sharpest lyricist and keenest tunesmith about the delights and horrors (mostly the latter) of dating this side of Sabrina Carpenter. Meanwhile, \u201cI Only Miss You\u201d welcomes her first big cross-genre guest in duet partner Ed Sheeran, and \u201cLiars & Tigers & Bears\u201d immediately enters the canon of industry songs<\/a> by bemoaning its impossible standards for female stars. <\/p>\n \n\tBaby Keem, Ca$ino<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAfter nearly a half-decade\u2019s wait for the follow-up to 2021 debut The Melodic Blue<\/em>, Baby Keem<\/a> announced earlier this February that he would be returning in just a week and a half with new album Ca$ino<\/em><\/a>. The 11-track set arrives today with the rapper\u2019s usual kinetic energy, with a tendency to switch up flows and beats mid-song, and also the ability to get heavier on songs like \u201cI Am Not a Lyricist\u201d and \u201cHighway 95 Pt. 2.\u201d Of course, cousin Kendrick is present, quoting Common\u2019s \u201cThe Light\u201d on \u201cGood Flirts,\u201d but the far more surprising West Coast rap legend on the guest list is Too $hort, who lends his inimitable swag to \u201c$ex Appeal.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tHilary Duff, Luck\u2026 or Something<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHilary Duff<\/a>\u2018s incredibly successful 2020s comeback \u2014\u00a0which already includes one of the best singles of 2025 with \u201cMature,\u201d and a recently announced tour visiting some of the biggest venues she\u2019s ever played \u2014\u00a0continues with Luck\u2026 or Something<\/em><\/a>, one of the most accomplished-sounding pop releases of the early year. Duff\u2019s confidence and self-assurance as a now-seasoned performer is evident in everything on the album, from the vocals to the lyrics and even the sonics, with help in the latter two departments from writer\/producer husband Matthew Koma and studio vet Brian Phillips. It\u2019s a triumph, and one of the best pop stories of the past year. <\/p>\n \n\tSZA, \u201cSave the Day\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSZA<\/a>\u2018s first new solo music following the summation of her SOS<\/em>\/Lana <\/em>era and her Grand National co-headlining tour with Kendrick Lamar is\u2026 a Pixar soundtrack single? Why not! To be fair, you probably wouldn\u2019t guess from \u201cSave the Day\u201d that the song was recorded for the end credits of Hoppers<\/em>, a robo-beaver odyssey due in theaters in March \u2014\u00a0the song is an impressively delicate and emotional ballad, with built around elegant piano from Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons and a vulnerable lyric from Sol\u00e1na. It\u2019ll tide fans over while they\u2019re waiting for a new album and\/or One of Them Days 2<\/em>. <\/p>\n \n\tTy Dolla $ign feat. Leon Thomas, \u201cMiss U 2\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWhile Leon Thomas usually drifts to the more traditional R&B side of things, he\u2019s cable of playing in a more hip-hop lane too \u2014\u00a0particularly when mentor and label head Ty Dolla $ign<\/a> is involved. Coming off a recent Hot 100 hit in \u201cDon\u2019t Kill the Party\u201d with Quavo and Juicy J, Ty Dolla is back with new single \u201cMiss U 2,\u201d as he trades verses with his Grammy-winning prot\u00e9g\u00e9, and sings a little Aaron Hall \u2014 who, between this song and Drake\u2019s \u201cGimme a Hug,\u201d is having a pretty incredible mid-2020s run with his signature solo hit \u201cI Miss You\u201d unexpectedly popping up in big releases. <\/p>\n \n\tThundercat & Mac Miller, \u201cShe Knows Too Much\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThundercat<\/a> and Mac Miller<\/a> seems like such an obvious musician-rapper combo to have brought out the best with one another that it\u2019s sad to think that they only got to work together a few times during the latter\u2019s lifetime. Driving that home is the new single from Thundercat\u2019s upcoming Distracted<\/em> album, which features the rapper delivering a frisky lyric about a girl who he\u2019s trying to get with but likely to come up empty, sounding like he\u2019s having too much fun to be down about his missed shot. And once it gets to the closing electric piano solo over the crisp groove and piercing horns, you\u2019ll be too busy boogieing to be sad about what could have been too. <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Billboard\u2019s\u00a0Friday Music Guide\u00a0serves as a handy guide to this Friday\u2019s most essential releases \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0 Explore See latest videos, charts and news This week, Megan Moroney has her fans on Cloud Nine, Baby Keem looks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[251271],"class_list":["post-2291104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-friday-music-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Megan-Moroney-Baby-Keem-Hilary-Duff-More.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291106,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291104\/revisions\/2291106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n