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Between Harry Styles<\/a>, Blackpink<\/a>, Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>, Drake<\/a>, and BTS<\/a>, 2026 has already had its fair share of major pop releases, with even more on the way from Charli XCX<\/a>, Gracie Abrams<\/a>, Tyla<\/a>, Ariana Grande<\/a>, and Role Model<\/a>. But the best music of the year doesn\u2019t belong to pop stars \u2014 it belongs to actors.<\/p>\n It all started when Naomi Scott<\/a> dropped her (wonderful) debut album F.I.G.<\/em> back in March. She\u2019s known for her work in films like Aladdin<\/em> and Smile 2<\/em>, and music has been an integral part of Scott\u2019s career since she first broke onto the scene in the 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth<\/em>, in which she plays a bass guitarist for a fictional band of the same name. Cut to 2026: Scott worked with the likes of Dev Hynes<\/a> and Lido to produce F.I.G.<\/em>, a forward-thinking, Janet Jackson<\/a>-tinged alt-R&B project that only gets better, silkier, and sexier with every listen. Just ask the TikTok algorithm.<\/p>\n