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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.

The Daily Pulse

Gary The Creator Oct 29, 2026

Eric Benét Sets Nine December Dates for the You Do Tour, Austin to Sony Hall

Eric Benét's You Do Tour runs nine headlining shows from Austin on Dec. 1 to Sony Hall in Manhattan on Dec. 22, with tickets on sale now.

The Daily Pulse

Gary The Creator Oct 28, 2026

JAY-Z Said No in 2019 - Now He's Headlining the Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show

Hov once told Roger Goodell to end the conversation if it was about him performing. Seven years and a stadium-sized JAŸ-Z30 victory lap later, he is headlining Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 14.

The Daily Pulse

Gary The Creator Oct 28, 2026

2hollis Pirouette Tour 2027: Presale Opens for 23 North American Dates

The artist presale for 2hollis' 23-date Pirouette Tour opened October 27, with the Kia Forum, Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum and an outdoor Brooklyn finale on the 2027 route.

The Daily Pulse

Gary The Creator Oct 27, 2026

Boyz II Men Sign With Warner Records Nashville for a 2027 Country Album

A month after singing with Lady A, Boyz II Men signed with Warner Records Nashville for their first country album, due in 2027. Wanya Morris says they want to be part of the genre, not to become it.

GloRilla and Sexyy Red Turn Up 'Jiggly Bow Bow' in New Video

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'

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.

Eric Benét Sets Nine December Dates for the You Do Tour, Austin to Sony Hall

JAY-Z Said No in 2019 - Now He's Headlining the Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show

2hollis Pirouette Tour 2027: Presale Opens for 23 North American Dates

Boyz II Men Sign With Warner Records Nashville for a 2027 Country Album