Stop Holding Your Breath, Rüfüs Du Sol’s ‘Inhale / Exhale’ Is Here: Stream It Now

Rüfüs Du Sol‘s much-anticipated fifth album, Inhale / Exhale, is finally here (Oct. 11), and fans have plenty to dive into.

Released via their label Rose Avenue Records and Reprise, the album sees the Australian trio continue to evolve while sticking to the emotional depth that has become their hallmark.

To celebrate the launch of their latest project, Rüfüs Du Sol held a pop-up gig on Sydney Harbour on Oct. 10. The trio performed in front of the iconic backdrop of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

“To get to play in that venue, with that backdrop was so special,” frontman Tyrone Lindqvist told Australia’s ABC News Breakfast. “It’s the first show we’ve done semi-in the round where people were in front, to the sides and behind.

He added, “It was a very surreal pinch-yourself moment for me.”

The lead-up to Inhale / Exhale has already been promising, with singles like “Break My Love,” which earned a spot in Billboard’s Friday Dance Music Guide as one of the best tracks of August. It’s a quintessential Rüfüs Du Sol track, driven by a pulsing beat and introspective lyrics that dig into themes of love and resilience.

“We want to try new things and, you know, step out of our comfort zone so on this record we did that a lot,” Lindqvist said.

The band even dropped a playful music video for the track, where they star as ’70s-era secret agents pulling off a heist.

The album itself follows up their Grammy-winning 2021 release Surrender, which earned them a Best Dance/Electronic Recording award for “On My Knees.”

Fans have come to expect a lot from the band, especially since their sound has become a go-to for the late-night festival scene, and Inhale / Exhale doesn’t disappoint, with the album offering 15 tracks that explore everything from euphoric dance beats to more experimental sounds,

The release of Inhale / Exhale also marks a new chapter in the band’s ongoing tour schedule. Just last month, they headlined San Francisco’s Portola Festival, and in 2025, they’re set to bring their sound to Lollapalooza’s South American editions.

You can stream Inhale / Exhale below.

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Rod Wave Takes a ‘Last Lap’ With New Album Featuring Lil Yachty & Lil Baby: Stream It Now

Rod Wave has released a project every year of his career since 2017, and he adds to his resume by checking off 2024 with his Last Lap album.

The project is filled with 23 tracks in total and boasts a few guest appearances — typically rare real estate on Wave projects — from Lil Baby, Lil Yachty and Rylo Rodriguez.

Singles “Passport Junkies” and “Fall Fast in Love” are on the LP, both of which made the Billboard Hot 100, with the latter giving him his 72nd entry on the chart. “Passport” sits at No. 97, while “Fall” lands at No. 68 in its debut on this week’s Hot 100.

With the album finally here, next order of business for Rod Wave is his Last Lap Tour. The singer will hit the road with Moneybagg Yo and Toosii for the North American trek, which kicks off in Phoenix on Oct. 19.

The tour will also make stops for shows in Oakland, Sacramento, Houston, Dallas, Memphis, Lexington, Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, Philly, Nashville and Orlando, before finishing up in Ft. Lauderdale on Dec. 18.

Rod Wave is looking to notch his fourth consecutive album, and he’ll be battling GloRilla and her Glorious debut album for the top spot on next week’s Billboard 200.

Wave’s riding high off the success of 2023’s Nostalgia. The Florida native’s fifth studio LP debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 137,000 total album-equivalent units sold in the first week. All 18 tracks from the LP also made the Billboard Hot 100.

Stream Last Lap below.

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Jelly Roll’s ‘Beautifully Broken’: All 22 Songs Ranked

Over the past year and a half, Jelly Roll has ascended to selling out arenas across the country and earning five No. 1 hits on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, as well as Grammy nominations and the Country Music Association’s new artist of the year award — and, in another signifier of his career rise, he’s nominated for the CMA’s coveted entertainer of the year honor at the upcoming ceremony on Nov. 20. He is also up for male vocalist of the year and album of the year for his debut country album (Whitsitt Chapel).

But perhaps most importantly, the Antioch, Tennessee, native has forged a reputation as a quick-witted singer-songwriter who traded his criminal past and previous career as a rapper for a mantel as a country-rock music purveyor and exemplar of redemptive change, an artist whose songs offer a vessel of elevation for those with checkered pasts, regrets, current struggles and hopes for a brighter day. Meanwhile, the preacher-fervor in Jelly Roll’s gravel-filled vocal delivery and onstage banter offers listeners an encourager and champion that those aspirations can become reality.

He continues that mission on his just-released new album, Beautifully Broken, a sprawling 22-song set that finds him doubling down on his message of redemptive arcs, starting with the image set forth of a man visiting an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Beautifully Broken‘s opening song “Winning Streak.” Along the way, he touches on the emotional impact of his life-changing success, pens skillful love songs, and gets vulnerable in the hopes he has for his family. Over the past year or so, it seems Jelly Roll has collaborated with the bulk of major country artists in some way; on this set, he nods to his rock and rap roots, through collaborations with MGK, Ilsey and Wiz Khalifa.

Though his 2023-released, 13-track Whitsitt Chapel just missed the crowning spot on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart (and debuted at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200), he seems poised to best those numbers with his new album.

One song from the album, “Get By,” has already been chosen as ESPN’s college football anthem for the 2024-25 season. Meanwhile, Jelly Roll has been bringing his redemptive songs to audiences across the country (including coveted performance venues such as Madison Square Garden) on his headlining Beautifully Broken Tour, which runs through November. With this album, he seems set to have plenty more life-giving songs to add to his live shows.

Below, we rank all 22 songs on Beautifully Broken.

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Charli XCX Works It Out on the Remix Album With ‘Brat & It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat’: Stream It Now

For everyone who thought the season of Brat ended with the summertime, Charli XCX would like you to think again.

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On Friday (Oct. 11), Charli unveiled her long-awaited remix album, Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat. Revamping all 15 songs from the original album (and one additional song from its deluxe version Brat and It’s the Same But There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not) the pop singer teams up with an all-star guest list of fellow pop luminaries to create a completely different (but also still Brat) sound.

Some of the guests and their respective songs have already been released, including Billie Eilish (“Guess”), Lorde (“Girl, So Confusing”) and Troye Sivan (“Talk Talk”). As for the remaining guests, Charli revealed her newest set of collaborators using a series of billboards around the U.S., before she ultimately unveiled the entire tracklist earlier this week, including Ariana Grande (“Sympathy Is a Knife”), Tinashe (“B2b”), Caroline Polachek (“Everything is Romantic”) and The 1975 (“I Might Say Something Stupid”).

In a recent interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Charli revealed that the album’s minimalist, lime-green branding was born out of a place of fear that the album wouldn’t perform well. “The actual first idea of doing a text cover came from was to save money. I was like, ‘This album is not going to appeal to a lot of people,’” she explained. “I was like, ‘I think I will do a press shoot and then maybe we just save on the album cover.’”

Stream Charli XCX’s Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat below.

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GloRilla Releases Debut Album ‘GLORIOUS’ Featuring Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, Sexyy Red & More: Stream It Now

After drubbing the competition with a fistful of hits including “Yeah Glo!,” “Wanna Be,” and “TGIF,” GloRilla looks to cement her MVP year with the release of her debut album, GLORIOUS. Released today (Oct. 11), GLORIOUS includes marquee names such as Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, Sexyy Red, Kirk Franklin, T-Pain, and more.

“Last year, I was supposed to drop my debut album, but I was still just getting used to stuff and working a lot,” Glo told Billboard earlier this week. When the top of the year came, I had the project basically done. I was like, ‘OK, I gotta give them the mixtape before I give them the album,’ because I went the whole year without dropping anything. That’s why I said I was gonna give them the mixtape first, get em’ back used to me first, give ’em a feel of me, and then that’s gonna prep me for the album. The mixtape did good and did what it was supposed to do, which prepped me for my album.”

After previously dishing out “Wanna Be” and “Accent” with her Megan Thee Stallion, the pair connected again for a trifecta on their newest collaboration, “How I Look. “I don’t really have a lot of industry friends,” said Glo regarding her friendship with Megan. “I got associates and they’re cool, but me and Meg really got cool. I didn’t expect it. She FaceTimed me when I was getting on the plane, just talking crazy and funny. We really gained a bond.”

Listen to GLORIOUS below.

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Tyla Drops Deluxe Edition of Self-Titled Debut Album: Stream It Now

Tyla dropped the deluxe edition of her self-titled debut album on Friday (Oct. 11) via FAX and Epic Records.

The new version features three more songs: “Shake Ah,” featuring Tony Duardo, Optimist and Maestro, “Push 2 Start” and “Back to You.”

The original version of Tyla was released on March 22, 2024. The 14-track project included previously released singles like her Billboard Hot 100 No. 7 smash “Water,” “Truth or Dare,” “Art” and “Jump,” featuring Gunna and Skillibeng, and additional collaborations with Kelvin Momo (“Intro”), Tems (“No.1”), Becky G (“On My Body”) and Travis Scott (“Water – Remix”). The set reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 on Top R&B Albums and No. 1 on World Albums (five weeks).

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The 22-year-old South African artist won the inaugural best African music performance Grammy earlier this year for “Water,” which recently won Best Afrobeats at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. She also won the Global Force award at Billboard‘s first-ever R&B No. 1s party in New York.

Tyla is set to perform during the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show next Tuesday, Oct. 15 in New York City, which will be available to watch live at 7 p.m. ET across Victoria’s Secret’s Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, and on Amazon Live & Prime Video. She will be joined by Cher and LISA on the first-of-its-kind all-female lineup. She also joined the 2024 Coke Studio lineup, alongside Usher, Peggy Gou, NewJeans and Karol G. As part of the partnership, Tyla will perform in her native Johannesburg and live debut a new song produced for Coke Studio.

Listen to the deluxe version of Tyla below.

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Jelly Roll’s ‘Beautifully Broken’ Album Has Arrived: Stream It Now

Jelly Roll is Beautifully Broken, and is sharing his journey with fans on his vulnerable album that arrived on Friday (Oct. 11).

The 22-track album features previously released singles “I Am Not Okay,” “Liar” and “Get By,” as well as collaborations with Ilsey, Wiz Khalifa and MGK.

Beautifully Broken serves as the follow-up to Whitsitt Chapel, which was released in June 2023. The album peaked at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200, reached No. 2 on Top Country Albums and took the No. 1 spot on Top Rock Albums. Jelly also got two 2024 Grammy nominations for best new artist and best country duo/group performance for “Save Me,” his collaboration with Lainey Wilson.

The album roll out also involved giving back. The net profits from every pre-order of the project made via his website went to mental health and addiction organizations. The four organizations who will benefit are Wounded Warriors Project, Folds of Honor, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and Shatterproof.

Jelly Roll is currently in the midst of a nationwide arena tour, which kicked off in August and will wind down with an Oct. 27 gig at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C.

Stream Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken in full below.

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BLACKPINK’s Jennie Drops Empowering New Single ‘Mantra’: Stream It Now

Jennie has created the ultimate anthem for pretty girls all over the world. The BLACKPINK superstar unveiled her brand new solo single, “Mantra,” on Thursday (Oct. 10).

“This that pretty girl mantra/ This that flaunt ‘cha/ Just touched down in LA,” she sings in the anthemic, dance-ready chorus. In the promo photos and corresponding music video, the 28-year-old singer is seen amid a slew of high-end convertibles and sports cars.

Jennie has had a groundbreaking few years. In addition to releasing long-awaited solo music, she also made her acting debut in 2023 in the HBO drama series The Idol and was named an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. In March 2024, she teamed up with Brockhampton’s Matt Champion to release a brand new collaboration, titled “Slow Motion.”

She announced in December that she is launching a new label and company called OA. “Hi, this is Jennie. This year was filled with many accomplishments, and I’m so thankful for all the love I’ve received,” the K-pop singer wrote on her Instagram Story. “I’m also about what’s to come, as I start my solo journey in 2024 with a company that I have established called OA. Please show lots of love for my new start with OA and of course BLACKPINK. Thank you.”

Stream Jennie’s “Mantra” below.

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T.I. Says He’s Retiring From Performing: ‘I Do Not Need the Money Anymore

T.I. says he’s retiring — at least from performing.

The King of the South and Young Dro sat down with 96.1 The Beat’s afternoon show “Rari at 2” with hosts Ferrari Simmons and BT, and the station’s annual Jingle Ball holiday concert in Atlanta on Dec. 19 was brought up. T.I. is headlining alongside Sexyy Red, T-Pain, Saweetie, The Kid Laroi, Khalid and Tinashe, but it may very well be his last performance ever.

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“I appreciate y’all for offering me my last working gig because I do not need the money anymore and I will not be performing,” he told the room. “I don’t want to do it anymore. … I don’t want people to pay me to hop around and sweat for their entertainment anymore.”

Young Dro then comically added that he would be picking up the gigs T.I. turns down. “I will be picking up all of Tip’s shows that he ain’t going to. Doing them all,” the Polo Ralph Lauren enthusiast said to laughs.

Ferrari then asked if he was going to “do” something for another upcoming show, and Tip answered, “Of course, I’m going to answer the phone to tell them that I will not be performing.” He did say, however, that he will perform again — but only on his terms.

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T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris recently won a $71 million lawsuit claiming that toymaker MGA stole the design of a line of “O.M.G.” toy dolls from their real-life teen pop group OMG Girlz. The now-defunct pop group was created by Tiny and featured her daughter Zonnique “Star” Pullins. So maybe that has something do with his decision.

As far as rapping goes, he might be retiring from that soon too. In October of last year, after being asked what fans can expect musically from the Atlanta rap legend, he told the We In Miami Podcast that he’s planning to release a double album titled Kill the King and Kiss the King and it will be his final album. He also mentioned that one of the first singles was going to be a song with NBA YoungBoy. That track is called “LLOGCLAY” and it dropped earlier this year in May.

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Yandel Breaks Down 5 Essential Tracks on New Album ‘ELYTE’

In an industry constantly evolving with new musical trends, Yandel has opted to stay faithful to the genre that made him a household name, further proving on his new album why he remains one of the most elite artists in the game.

Titled just that — ELYTE (replacing the I with the Y in honor of his artistic name) — the Puerto Rican artist presents his eighth solo studio album. The 19-track production is for the most part an entire album of reggaetón music, fusing the old-school sound with modern elements. Notably, the collaborators on the set include Tego Calderon, J Balvin, Feid, Myke Towers, Farruko and Blessd, to name a few. 

“I feel deeply blessed and happy that my music has managed to transcend at different stages of my career,” the artist born Llandel Veguilla Malavé tells Billboard. “I always seek to evolve by staying true to my essence, without losing what defines me, but making sure that my music continues to connect with the public.” 

ELYTE follows Yandel’s Resistencia (2023), Quien Contra Mi 2 (2020), The One (2019), #Update (2017), Dangerous (2015), De Líder a Leyenda (2013), and Quien Contra Mi (2003). Both his 2013 and 2015 albums hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart. 

The album’s release also comes ahead of Yandel taking center stage at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Week, returning to Miami Beach on Oct. 14-18, with other confirmed artists including Feid, Young Miko, Gloria Estefan, Alejandro Sanz, Maria Becerra and Peso Pluma, among many others. 

Yandel — who’s also a finalist at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards for Latin Rhythm Artist of the Year, Duo or Group with Wisin y Yandel — will be joined by Dei V and Roberto Andrade (managing director at Warner Music Latina) for a discussion on the beginning and future of the genre. For tickets and more details, visit BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com.

Below, Yandel breaks down five essential tracks from ELYTE. 

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