{"id":2416838,"date":"2026-05-14T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2416838"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:58:20","slug":"new-music-friday-release-radar-for-may-15-2026-top-albums-song-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-release-radar-for-may-15-2026-top-albums-song-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday release radar for May 15, 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 15. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s New Music Friday is headlined by Toronto superstar Drake as he is set to release his ninth solo studio album, \u2018Iceman\u2019. This is Drake\u2019s first solo album since \u2018For All the Dogs\u2019 in 2023. Drake\u2019s last album was a collaboration with PARTYNEXTDOOR titled \u2018$ome $exy $ongs 4 U\u2019 which came out in February 2025. <\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re looking for new albums and songs<\/strong> from additional artists releasing <strong>on Friday, May 15, 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>Iceman<\/em> by <strong>Drake<\/strong> (89.6M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Loco x Volver <\/em>by <strong>Maluma<\/strong> (48.1M)<\/li>\n<li><em>BELOVED ACT 11<\/em> by <strong>GIV\u0112ON<\/strong>\u00a0(29.4M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Sandbox<\/em> by <strong>All-American Rejects<\/strong> (11M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Dr*gs R Bad<\/em> by <strong>LUCKI<\/strong> (6.3M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Florescence<\/em> by <strong>Maisie Peters<\/strong> (3.1M)<\/li>\n<li><em>GENESIS FM<\/em>\u00a0by <strong>BNYX<\/strong> (2M)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Check out our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dknetwork.draftkings.com\/2026\/05\/12\/ranking-the-top-10-drake-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rankings of the top Drake songs<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dknetwork.draftkings.com\/2026\/05\/13\/ranking-the-best-drake-albums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">albums throughout his career.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\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>Better That Way<\/em> by <strong>Charles Wesley Godwin<\/strong> (2.4M) &amp; <strong>Luke Combs<\/strong> (26.8M)<\/li>\n<li>Serendipity by Armin Van Buuren (15M) &amp; Andrew Bayer (621K)<\/li>\n<li><em>Seratonin<\/em> by <strong>James Hype<\/strong> (12M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Like It<\/em> by <strong>ANOTR<\/strong> (11.5M) &amp; <strong>3DDY<\/strong> (808K)<\/li>\n<li><em>What\u2019s Done is Done<\/em> by <strong>Jorja Smith<\/strong> (10.7M)<\/li>\n<li><em>WDA (Whole Different Animal)<\/em> by <strong>aesa<\/strong> (9.6M) &amp; <strong>G-Dragon<\/strong> (3.3M)<\/li>\n<li><em>C U Dance<\/em> by <strong>Dizzee Rascal<\/strong> (3.2M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Find God<\/em> by <strong>Kenny Mason<\/strong> (1.6M) &amp; <strong>Dominic Fike<\/strong> (63M)<\/li>\n<li><em>How Lucky Am I?<\/em> by <strong>Alex Sampson<\/strong> (1.2M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bad Guy<\/em> by <strong>Honestav<\/strong> (1.2M)<\/li>\n<li><em>Heads Up<\/em> by <strong>Johnny Orlando<\/strong> (1.2M)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-new-music-friday-may-15-2026-faq\">New Music Friday, May 15, 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 15.<\/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>Drake<\/strong>, <strong>Luke Combs<\/strong>, and <strong><strong>Dominic Fike<\/strong><\/strong> are among the most popular artists releasing new music <strong>on Friday, May 15.<\/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=\"395727\"\/><\/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 15. This week\u2019s New Music Friday is headlined by Toronto superstar Drake as he is set to release his ninth solo studio album, \u2018Iceman\u2019. This is Drake\u2019s first solo album since \u2018For All the Dogs\u2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2416839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2416838","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\/05\/New-Music-Friday-release-radar-for-May-15-2026-top.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416838","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=2416838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416840,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416838\/revisions\/2416840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}