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Friday Music Guide: New Music From Doja Cat, Young Thug, Tate McRae and More

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.  This week, Doja Cat travels in time, Young Thug makes up for lost time and Mariah Carey remains timeless. […]

Mariah Carey’s ‘Here for It All’: All 11 Tracks Ranked

Mariah Carey is here for all the triumphant and turbulent times on her 16th studio album Here for It All, which dropped on Friday (Sept. 26) via gamma. On her first album in seven years, she turns up the braggadocio on “Mi” and “Type Dangerous,” luxuriates in confections on “Sugar Sweet” (featuring Shenseea and Kehlani) […]

UMG & Sony Endorse SoundPatrol’s ‘Neural Fingerprinting’ Tech to Help Curb AI-Driven Theft

SoundPatrol has entered a partnership with Universal Music Group and Sony Music to protect artists from copyright infringement coming from AI music models. According to a press release, SoundPatrol specializes in using a “forensic AI model for audio-video fingerprinting.” Through neural fingerprinting, SoundPatrol claims it can analyze fully (or partially) AI generated songs to identify […]

Olivia Dean’s ‘The Art of Loving’: All 12 Tracks Ranked

After a gloomy period, 2025 is looking to be something of a golden year for U.K. and Irish artists: Central Cee’s debut Can’t Rush Greatness achieved U.K. rap’s highest-ever placement on the Billboard 200; Lola Young saw “Messy” become a global smash; and Wet Leg, Fontaines D.C. and Sam Fender all levelled up for their […]