{"id":2396331,"date":"2026-04-30T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2396331"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:42:37","slug":"new-music-friday-release-radar-for-may-1-2026-top-albums-song-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-release-radar-for-may-1-2026-top-albums-song-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday release radar for May 1, 2026: top albums, song releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading151976_e554f3-7c\">Ryan Wohl breaks down the albums and songs for this week\u2019s New Music Friday, which are releasing on May 1. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s New Music Friday features many popular artists, including Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, and Alex Warren, who are all releasing new singles. <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Zara Larrsson,\u00a0Asake<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0and The Black Keys are among the top artists coming out with a new album this week.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re looking for new albums and songs<\/strong> from additional artists releasing <strong>on Friday, May 1, we have you covered below. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-new-music-friday-list-of-top-albums\">New Music Friday: list of top albums<\/h2>\n<p id=\"h-new-music-friday-list-of-top-albumsranked-by-spotify-listeners\"><strong>Ranked by Spotify Listeners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Midnight Sun: Girls Trip<\/em> by <strong>Zara Larrsson<\/strong> (69.8M)<\/li>\n<li><em>M$NEY<\/em> by <strong>Asake<\/strong> (8.5M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Peaches!<\/em> by <strong>The Black Keys<\/strong> (8.3M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Victory Garden<\/em> by <strong>Young the Giant<\/strong> (7.9M)<\/li>\n<li><em>IT\u2019S BEEN AWFU<\/em>L by <strong>Isaiah Rashad<\/strong> (4.9M)<\/li>\n<li><em>In Times of Dragons<\/em> by <strong>Tori Amos<\/strong> (1.4M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Sunshine for Happiness<\/em> by <strong>Emma Louise<\/strong> (1.2M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Sweat<\/em> by <strong>Melanie C<\/strong> (1.1M)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-new-singles\">New singles <\/h2>\n<p id=\"h-new-singles-ranked-by-spotify-listeners\"><strong>Ranked by Spotify Listeners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Shape of a Women<\/em> by <strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong> (96.6M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Heroine<\/em> by <strong>Maroon 5 <\/strong>(76.1M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Fine Place to Die<\/em> by <strong>Alex Warren<\/strong> (51.1M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Russ Millions<\/em> by <strong>Carbi B<\/strong> (33.6M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Material Lover<\/em> by <strong>Sienna Spiro<\/strong> (24.6M)<\/li>\n<li><em>It\u2019s Ok<\/em> by<strong> Bryson Tiller<\/strong> (19.8M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Merry Go<\/em> by <strong>John Newman<\/strong> (16.8M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bitch<\/em> by <strong>Lizzo<\/strong> (10.7M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Hands on Me<\/em> by <strong>Becky Hill<\/strong> (9.9M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Jezebel<\/em> by <strong>Lithe<\/strong> (8.5M)<\/li>\n<li><em>I Know I Know<\/em> by <strong>Stella Lefty<\/strong> (7.2M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Find My Face<\/em> by <strong>Songer<\/strong> (1.3M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Call on Me<\/em> by <strong>Editors<\/strong> (947K)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-new-music-friday-may-1-2026-faq\">New Music Friday, May 1, 2026 FAQ:<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-time-do-new-releases-drop\">What time do new releases drop?<\/h3>\n<p>The majority of the new albums and singles releasing this week will be out <strong>at 9:00 p.m. PT and 12:00 a.m. ET on May 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-are-the-biggest-artists-releasing-music-this-friday\">Who are the biggest artists releasing music this Friday?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lady<\/strong> <strong>Gaga<\/strong>, <strong>Maroon 5<\/strong>, and <strong>Alex Warren<\/strong> are among the most popular artists releasing new music <strong>on Friday, May 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-can-i-listen-to-this-new-music\">Where can I listen to this new music?<\/h3>\n<p>All of the new music will be\u00a0available on <strong>Spotify and Apple Music<\/strong>, among other streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"daextamp-post-id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"389649\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source dknetwork.draftkings.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Wohl breaks down the albums and songs for this week\u2019s New Music Friday, which are releasing on May 1. This week\u2019s New Music Friday features many popular artists, including Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, and Alex Warren, who are all releasing new singles. Zara Larrsson,\u00a0Asake,\u00a0and The Black Keys are among the top artists coming out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396332,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2396331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-Music-Friday-release-radar-for-May-1-2026-top.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396331","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=2396331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396333,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396331\/revisions\/2396333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}