{"id":2426884,"date":"2026-05-21T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2426884"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:04:20","slug":"new-music-friday-kylie-minogue-maisie-peters-cruz-beckham-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-kylie-minogue-maisie-peters-cruz-beckham-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday: Kylie Minogue, Maisie Peters, Cruz Beckham and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>New Music Friday singles \ud83c\udfb6<\/h2>\n<p>As she reflects on her illustrious career with three-part Netflix documentary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/kylie-minogue-netflix-documentary-release-date-details\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylie<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/43484\/kylie\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylie Minogue<\/a>\u00a0shares brand-new single Light Up. On the track, Kylie says: &#8220;The first phrase of the song came to me as I was thinking about how magical it is when someone who truly loves you can see a world of possibility in you and recognise your potential, even when you\u2019re feeling lost or hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shared the seed of the idea with [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/7620\/coldplay\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coldplay<\/a>&#8216;s] Chris Martin over the phone, and ten minutes later he sent me a voice note with some chord and melody ideas for those few lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can Kylie claim a 55th Official Top 40 single with Light Up next week?<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off the back of her fourth chart-topping tune <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/olivia-rodrigo-drop-dead\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drop dead<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/56921\/olivia-rodrigo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> releases the latest cut from her upcoming LP <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/olivia-rodrigo-you-seem-pretty-sad-for-a-girl-so-in-love-album\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love<\/a>, due June 12. Olivia describes the track as &#8220;my favourite song on the album and one of my favourite songs I\u2019ve ever made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/32902\/stormzy\/\">Stormzy<\/a> teams up with Odeal for 24 Hours, a banger that incorporates elements of Egypt\u2019s UK funky classic In The Morning (Let Your Love Come In). Announcing the track on Instagram, Stormy wrote: &#8220;We made this riddim a couple months ago and we\u2019ve been working on it ever since but now that the sun is out and also the fact that it\u2019s bank holiday weekend it feels like a good time for you guys to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50313\/niall-horan\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Horan<\/a> dishes up End Of An Era, the third course from his forthcoming <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/niall-horan-dinner-party-release-date-when-tour-tickets-how-pre-order\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dinner Party<\/a> album, to be served June 5. Niall explains: &#8220;Julian Bunetta, John Ryan and I started the original version of this song years and years ago&#8230;Some songs take a minute to get to what you&#8217;re actually trying to say. This was one of those. I hope it means as much to you as it does to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/47614\/nothing-but-thieves\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing But Thieves<\/a> launch a new era with Evolution, which received its first play from our very own Jack Saunders as BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Hottest Record.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50641\/cruz-beckham\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz Beckham<\/a> and The Breakers are back with YEAH YEAH YEAH, a song recently debuted on their first-ever headline tour. And <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/61410\/lola-young\/\">Lola Young<\/a> returns with new single From Down Here \u2013 could it become her fourth Top 40 hit?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big week, too, for David Wynn, who releases his own version of Lauren Duski&#8217;s I Would For You, raising money for Meningitis Now.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, expect big new tunes from the likes of former UK Eurovision representatives <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/remember-monday\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remember Monday<\/a> (Delusional),\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/4036\/brandi-carlile\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a> (Life On The Run), Olympia Vitalis (Money Tree), Majid Jordan (Cold), Jessie Reyez (N.Y.F.F.) and Jos Rivers (Thankyou So Very Much).<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto albums.<\/p>\n<h2>New Music Friday albums \ud83d\udcbf<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/52122\/maisie-peters\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maisie Peters<\/a> follows up her chart-topping 2023 project <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/maisie-peters-the-good-witch\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Witch<\/a> with third studio set, Fluorescence. Maisie recently announced that she&#8217;ll be headlining The O2, London on May 8 2027 as part of the iconic venue&#8217;s 20th birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/48638\/dua-lipa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a> will be hoping to secure a hat-trick of Number 1 albums with Dua Lipa (Live From Mexico). The album&#8217;s released alongside a concert film recorded across Dua&#8217;s\u00a0three sold-out shows at Mexico City&#8217;s Estadio GNP Seguros as part of her Radical Optimism Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Time to CELEBRATE! K-pop girl group <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/63561\/le-sserafim\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LE SSEREFIM<\/a> unleash their second full-length project, &#8216;PUREFLOW&#8217;, Pt. 1. Will\u00a0Sakura, Kim Chaewon, Huh Yunjin, Kazuha and Hong Eunchae earn their first-ever Albums Chart entry?<\/p>\n<p>Things Are Looking Up for Northampton-born singer-songwriter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/51680\/billy-lockett\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Lockett<\/a>, who delivers his second project. On the self-penned, self-recorded and self-produced LP, Billy says: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been making the album for just over three years and so it&#8217;s been a record of the changes through out my life. Break ups, addiction but also recovery and love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The album is hopeful. I&#8217;d say most of the songs are upbeat and happy, but it wouldn&#8217;t be a Billy Lockett album without some heartbreaking ballads slipped in. I wanted to make an album my dad would&#8217;ve loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, New Jersey outfit Bleachers set their sights on a second Top 10 with their sixth studio set, everyone for ten minutes. The band&#8217;s current UK chart peak came courtesy of eponymous 2024 record <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/bleachers-bleachers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bleachers<\/a>, which reached Number 5.<\/p>\n<p>CARMIT, founding member of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/16419\/pussycat-dolls\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pussycat Dolls<\/a>, drops her self-titled solo EP. Featuring remastered tracks originally recorded in the 2000s, it combines her debut EP Limited Edition with cuts from her vaulted album Formerly Of&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool singer-songwriter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/luvcat\/\">Luvcat<\/a>, the hitmaker behind Vicious Delicious, drops her latest EP Lovebites.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also find big new album releases from the likes of Bentley Robles (Olympus),\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/51464\/6lack\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6LACK<\/a> (Love Is The Only Gangster), Eli (Stage Girl (Deluxe)) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/28161\/radiohead\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radiohead<\/a> guitarist Ed O&#8217;Brien (Blue Morpho).<\/p>\n<h2>New Music Friday song, album and DVD releases for May 22 2026:<\/h2>\n<\/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 www.officialcharts.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Music Friday singles \ud83c\udfb6 As she reflects on her illustrious career with three-part Netflix documentary Kylie, Kylie Minogue\u00a0shares brand-new single Light Up. On the track, Kylie says: &#8220;The first phrase of the song came to me as I was thinking about how magical it is when someone who truly loves you can see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426885,"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":[373322,362348,465728,24049,25675,392919,352720],"class_list":["post-2426884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-kylie-minogue","tag-lola-young","tag-maisie-peters","tag-new-releases","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-remember-monday","tag-stormzy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/New-Music-Friday-Kylie-Minogue-Maisie-Peters-Cruz-Beckham-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426884","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=2426884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426886,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426884\/revisions\/2426886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}