Lucky Daye turns romantic distance into an invitation to reconnect on “Talk to Me,” the latest single from his forthcoming album ALOUD!, arriving October 16 via Warner Records.

Ari Lennox adds nine songs to Vacancy with Late Checkout, an expansion substantial enough to feel less like bonus material and more like another chapter of the album.

Guarantees, door deals, versus deals, merch cuts and commissions decide whether a first tour pays. Here is how the money moves, with the numbers on the record.

Victoria Monét's 22-track Frequency of Love leads a stacked Oct 2, with Quavo's Pharrell-produced QRÖMELIFE, Yung Miami's double offering, and a Mac Miller anniversary edition with three unreleased songs.

Lalah Hathaway's ninth album is here, nine songs co-produced with Phil Beaudreau and released on the day her father would have turned 81. Here's what's on it and where she's taking it.

Lil Nas X is back with "World's Greatest!", a self-written single and Phillip Youmans-directed video introduced by a voicemail from his late mother.

Rapsody plays four unplugged shows in October, opening in Crown Heights and closing at Blue Note Los Angeles, the Sunset jazz club she already headlined in February.

Boosie Badazz and Webbie have set Back At It for Oct 24, the first project billed to the two of them alone since Gangsta Musik. Here is the Trill history behind it and the Baton Rouge it returns to.

Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 45, its first chart week since 1979. The calendar, the tracking week and a rewritten Billboard rule all lined up behind it.

Yung Miami named her solo debut Watch Dis with no date and no label attached. "Spend Dat" gave her a No. 17 hit and 83.8 million streams, and her last album opened at No. 117.

Zohran Mamdani sat with Nas near Queensbridge and promised artists could afford to live where they create. The rent freeze starts Thursday, the Bronx School of Hip-Hop is open, and the city's major celebrations of its own rap history are booked somewhere else.

Meek Mill says the 1,500-streams-per-sale rule set artists back a decade. We ran his own numbers through the chart math, the DSP payout pool and the label split to find where the money actually goes.