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, A$AP Rocky checks the dummies, Madison Beer fully arrives and ENHYPEN keep fans on their toes. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

A$AP Rocky, Don’t Be Dumb 

In a hip-hop ecosystem where most A-listers are hyper-prolific, A$AP Rocky has remained a headliner by taking his time and carefully curating his discography; Don’t Be Dumb, his long-awaited and oft-delayed fourth studio album, not only rewards patience but adds new wrinkles to the rapper’s approach — a evolved relationship with melody, and a wiser lyrical slant — that could have only come with time.

Madison Beer, Locket 

More than a decade after making her pop debut, Madison Beer has reached an enviable point in her career, in which she’s straddling a line between fresh new star and longtime indie heroine capable of booking a Madison Square Garden date. Locket, her third studio album, represents a mainstream breakthrough — not just because singles like “Make You Mine” and “Bittersweet” have earned hundreds of millions of streams, but also because album tracks like “Bad Enough” and “Angel Wings” are among the strongest of Beer’s catalog.

ENHYPEN, The Sin: Vanish 

While ENHYPEN’s seventh mini-album The Sin: Vanish is led by the crackling hip-hop single “Knife,” that anthem serves as something of a red herring for the K-pop group’s most wide-ranging body of work in recent memory — the vampire mythology adds to the product, but even casual listeners will be able to (sorry) sink their teeth into a lot here.

Wizkid & Asake, “Jogodo” 

Not only are Wizkid and Asake two of Nigeria’s biggest crossover stars, but — with 2020’s Made in Lagos and 2022’s Mr. Money With the Vibe, respectively — each has translated global smashes into sumptuous, front-to-back great studio projects; a forthcoming joint EP is a thrilling prospect, and the sly, shimmering lead track “Jogodo” surpasses expectations.

Megan Moroney, “Wish I Didn’t” 

Ahead of her upcoming Cloud 9 album, Megan Moroney has just unveiled one of the catchiest tracks of her career: “Wish I Didn’t,” a country-pop ode to a force-of-nature personality, pairs Moroney’s smoky delivery with a timely warning to someone who’s about to underestimate her, and stokes greater anticipation for her new project.

Editor’s Pick: Mitski, “Where’s My Phone?” 

Finally, an indie-rock anthem for those of us who can never find their phones! The first taste of Mitski’s upcoming eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, is deeper than a misplaced cell, but offers straightforward delights for longtime fans, including a jangly hook and fuzzed-up guitar freakout in the song’s final 30 seconds.

Jamaican reggae powerhouse Protoje is hitting the ground running in 2026, and Billboard can exclusively announce that his new album, The Art of Acceptance, will arrive this spring via In.Digg.Nation Collective and Ineffable Records.

Protoje’s latest LP will serve as the official follow-up to 2022’s Third Time’s the Charm, which earned him his second Grammy nomination for best reggae album. Driven by his trademark conscious lyricism and appreciation for the genre’s classic periods, The Art of Acceptance will include the previously shared tracks “Big 45” and “Feel It,” as well as a new collaboration with Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley titled “At We Feet.”

Now available to stream on all platforms, “At We Feet” marks the very first collaboration between the two superstars and serves as the official lead single for The Art of Acceptance. “Whatever we need, Jah put a we feet,” Protoje croons in the refrain, bridging roots reggae with more contemporary production flourishes. In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which became the strongest storm to strike Jamaica in the island’s history in October, the steadfast, faith-driven lyrics of “At We Feet” are especially poignant. The new single also arrives alongside a SAMO-directed music video, which was shot between Kingston and Miami.

“‘At We Feet’ is about faith, surrender, and trust, knowing that when you move with love and positivity, provision comes, even in hard times,” the St. Elizabeth native explained. “It’s a reminder that beyond our plans, there’s a greater design unfolding.”

To support The Art of Acceptance, Protoje will embark on an international tour beginning with a performance at Florida’s Reggae Rise Up Fest on March 14. The European leg of the trek will kick off on March 19 at De Roma in Antwerp, Belgium, visiting major cities including Paris and Zurich before concluding with three shows in the U.K. Protoje will then head to the States for the tour’s American leg, which includes a special Stephen Marley-assisted show at Houston’s House of Blues on April 22.

Although it’s been a few years since Protoje’s last full-length album, the acclaimed singer-producer has remained busy, lending his talents to several tracks on Lila Iké’s gorgeous album Treasure Self Love. Billboard named his protégé’s debut LP the No. 3 Best Caribbean Album of 2025, and the set will compete in the best reggae album category at February’s Grammys.

Check out Protoje’s upcoming tour dates and listen to “At We Feet” below:

Before his death in 2009, Dan Seals had a storied career as both a pop and country artist, with such ‘70s hits as “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” and “Nights Are Forever Without You” as half of England Dan & John Ford Coley on the pop charts and then a string of country No. 1s as a solo artist in the ‘80s, including “Bop,” “Addicted” and “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold).”

His legacy will be celebrated with Dan Seals & Friends: The Last Duet, an Aug. 28 release from Melody Place Records and the Dan Seals Estate that features many of his biggest hits re-created as new duets with artists including Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Jamey Johnson, Alabama, Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker.

While four of the songs have already come out — “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)” with Bryan, “Three Time Loser” with Johnson, “My Baby’s Got Good Timing” with Jasmine Amy Rogers and “Nights Are Forever Without You” with Sara Evans — Billboard is exclusively revealing the full track list below. Upon the release of his duet with Seals, Bryan said, “When I think of all time iconic songs, this one definitely comes top of mind. Dan was an artist I had on repeat and actually still do. I sang this song when I was back in Georgia and now to be here and paired with him on this new release is just unbelievable.”

Noted producer and Seals collaborator Kyle Lehning put together the project, using digital technology to extract Seals’ vocals and recordings and then adding on the duet partner to create something familiar, yet new.  

“Dan was always true: as a singer, as an artist and as a man,” Lehning said in a statement. “Seeing the way all of these artists responded when they had Dan’s voice in their ears shows how that warm truth in his voice still touches people in the best way. The song ‘Still Reelin’’ was Dan reflecting on the effect that Elvis and the early rock n’ rollers had on him as a child, it’s nice to see that people are ‘still reelin’’ from his music today.”

The album also includes what is being billed a 50th-anniversary edition of “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight,” which came out in March 1976 and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The version takes Seals’ recording of the song from his 1995 album In a Quiet Room record with new vocals recorded by Coley.

England Dan & John Ford Coley took four songs to the top of Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, while Seals landed 11 No. 1s on Billboard’s Country Songs chart, including “Meet Me in Montana,” a duet with Osmond, who appears on the new album on “You Still Move Me.”

All singles from the album, which can be pre-saved here, while a number of music videos and other visuals featuring archival footage will be rolled out.

Dan Seals & Friends: The Last Duet track list

1. “Big Wheels In The Moonlight” – Blake Shelton
2. “God Must Be A Cowboy” – Ned LeDoux
3. “Nights Are Forever Without You” – Sara Evans
4. “Bop” – Tanya Tucker
5. “You Still Move Me” – Marie Osmond
6. “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)” – Luke Bryan
7. “The Healing Kind” – Katharine McPhee
8. “Wood” – John Berry
9. “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight (50th Anniversary Edition)” – John Ford Coley
10. “Love Is The Answer” – Jackie Evancho
11. “Addicted” – The Castellows
12. “Love On Arrival” – Wendy Moten
13. “One Friend” – Lynda Carter
14. “Three Time Loser” – Jamey Johnson
15. “My Baby’s Got Good Timing” – Jasmine Amy Rogers
16. “Steel Reelin’ (From Those Rock & Roll Days)” – Alabama

BTS’s fifth full-length album will arrive on March 20. That much we already knew.

We now know the collection will be titled Arirang.

“Arirang” is a traditional Korean folk song renowned, according to a statement from BigHit Music, which delivered an update on the album Friday, Jan. 16. “Transcending time and generations, the song has long been associated with emotions of connection, distance, and reunion,” the release continues.

The collection is said to be 14-tracks deep, “a deeply reflective body of work” that explores the K-pop superstars’ “identity and roots,” the statement reads.

Furthermore, the band will “draw on the emotional depth of ‘Arirang’ — its sense of yearning, longing, and the ebb and flow of life,” adds the message, the seven-piece ultimately choosing the title for its “strong resonance with their current journey.”

The new album marks the group’s reunion following a nearly four-year hiatus, during which members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook completed South Korea’s mandatory military service.

BTS’ big title reveal closely follows the announcement of another world tour, their first large-scale jaunt in nearly four years, since BTS Permission to Dance on Stage, which concluded in April 2022.

The forthcoming trek will get underway April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, then makes a stop in Tokyo before arriving in the United States in late April. The first stateside concerts will take place April 25-26 in Tampa, Fla., and closes its North American run with four shows in Los Angeles in September. All told, 79 shows are booked across the globe including Asia, North and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and more. 

“The new release explores universal emotions of longing and love,” the statement continues, “and will resonate with the worldwide audience as a timeless legacy across generations and cultures.”