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All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Tanerélle – Save Me

Tanerélle's “Save Me,” written and produced with Randy Belculfine and Mick Schultz, is the final single before her MNRK Music Group album Simulation Blue, due Nov 13.

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Cover art: Drumma Boy feat. Too $hort & Eric Bellinger – Have You Seen Her

New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Drumma Boy feat. Too $hort & Eric Bellinger – Have You Seen Her

Producer Drumma Boy brings in Too $hort and Eric Bellinger on “Have You Seen Her,” a 2:36 single on his Drum Squad Records, licensed to Connect Music.

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Cover art: Sentury feat. Jagged Edge – Enough

New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Sentury feat. Jagged Edge – Enough

Houston R&B quartet Sentury links with Jagged Edge on “Enough,” a Gateway Records single that puts two male vocal groups from different generations on one record.

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Cover art: Bobby V feat. Nivea – Quiet Storm

New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Bobby V feat. Nivea – Quiet Storm

Bobby V and Nivea share billing on “Quiet Storm,” a 3:42 single that continues a steady run of 2026 releases from Bobby V.

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Cover art: Lalah Hathaway feat. J. Ivy – 47th Street (Remix)

New Music

New Remix

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Lalah Hathaway feat. J. Ivy – 47th Street (Remix)

A remix of the lead single and opening track from Lalah Hathaway's Made In Chicago, with J. Ivy's spoken word about the Great Migration carried over from the original.

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New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Leela James – What U Need

Leela James returns with “What U Need,” a new single released through her SheSangz Music imprint and BMG, with a music video premiering the same day.

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New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

Snoh Aalegra – Just Friends

Snoh Aalegra's “Just Friends” is the latest preview of Legendary Love, her first full-length since 2021's Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies, due Nov 13 through Feels Run Free and Stem.

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New Music

New Single

All New Music Releases Oct 30, 2026

A previously unreleased Prince vault recording, “Time of Ur Life” is the first preview of the 20th-anniversary 3121 (Expanded Edition), where it opens a disc of 10 additional vault tracks when the set arrives Dec 11.

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The Daily Pulse

Gary The Creator Oct 30, 2026

New Music Friday, October 30: BigXthaPlug Comes Home to Rap, Kirk Franklin Takes Church in Two Halves, and Sampa the Great Claims Her Uncle's Sound

BigXthaPlug's Better Over Time leads this week's New Music Friday, with Kirk Franklin's first double album and Sampa the Great's Nu Zamrock close behind. GloRilla shows up on two of the three.

Deep Dives

Gary The Creator Oct 29, 2026

RBX Rapped on The Chronic. A Federal Judge Says Spotify Never Owed Him a Shield Against the Bots.

Judge Josephine Staton dismissed RBX's streaming-fraud suit against Spotify with prejudice on Friday. The order never weighs the Drake bot allegations; it finds Spotify owed him no duty, and that moves the fight to the Ninth Circuit and the Copyright Office.

Cover art: Halle feat. Lucky Daye, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, Chlöe & H.E.R. – love?... or something like it (Deluxe)

New Music

New Deluxe Edition

All New Music Releases Oct 29, 2026

Halle feat. Lucky Daye, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, Chlöe & H.E.R. – love?... or something like it (Deluxe)

Halle reopens her debut one year on, adding five songs to love?... or something like it, including a Lucky Daye duet on the title track produced by Bongo ByTheWay and BonxuBlessedIt.

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Artist Guide

Gary The Creator Oct 29, 2026

Megan Thee Stallion Rented Interscope's Pipeline and Kept the Masters: The Artist's Guide to Distribution and Label Services Deals.

Megan Thee Stallion's Interscope partnership is the cleanest live example of a distribution deal. Here is what that structure buys, what it bills back, and the data question regulators forced into the open.

Johnny Gill's 'A Dance, A Kiss' Tops Billboard Adult R&B Airplay + Drops Video

After 'Hold On Me' and 'Won't Let Go,' Mariah Dawne Sings About Letting Go on 'Make Room'

Jessie Reyez Sets A Little Vengeance Deluxe for Nov. 6, Mid-Tour

Tanerélle – Save Me

Drumma Boy feat. Too $hort & Eric Bellinger – Have You Seen Her

Sentury feat. Jagged Edge – Enough

Bobby V feat. Nivea – Quiet Storm

Lalah Hathaway feat. J. Ivy – 47th Street (Remix)

Leela James – What U Need

Snoh Aalegra – Just Friends

Prince – Time of Ur Life

New Music Friday, October 30: BigXthaPlug Comes Home to Rap, Kirk Franklin Takes Church in Two Halves, and Sampa the Great Claims Her Uncle's Sound

RBX Rapped on The Chronic. A Federal Judge Says Spotify Never Owed Him a Shield Against the Bots.

Halle feat. Lucky Daye, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, Chlöe & H.E.R. – love?... or something like it (Deluxe)

Megan Thee Stallion Rented Interscope's Pipeline and Kept the Masters: The Artist's Guide to Distribution and Label Services Deals.