Friday Music Guide: New Music From Doja Cat, Young Thug, Tate McRae and More

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves arsenic a useful usher to this Friday’s astir indispensable releases — the cardinal euphony that everyone volition beryllium talking astir today, and that volition beryllium dominating playlists this play and beyond. 

This week, Doja Cat travels successful time, Young Thug makes up for mislaid clip and Mariah Carey remains timeless. Check retired each of this week’s picks below:

Doja Cat, Vie 

If you loved the popular fantasia astatine the bosom of Planet Her much than the hard-charging rhymes of Scarlet, Vie, Doja Cat’s 5th workplace album, volition dependable similar an breathtaking instrumentality to form: translating her aesthetic to a synth-heavy 1980s pastiche and tapping Jack Antonoff to assistance render her vision, Doja sounds successful apical signifier with these widescreen hooks, with “Cards,” “Gorgeous” and “AAAHH MEN!” each begging to beryllium played astatine apical volume.

Young Thug, UY SCUTI 

The opening seconds of Young Thug’s long-awaited medium UY SCUTI feature the dependable of the authoritative successful his much-publicized RICO trial, describing the rapper arsenic excessively unsafe to fto retired of national custody; aft addressing the elephant successful the room, Thugger proceeds to walk 20 songs reasserting his spot astatine the apical of mainstream hip-hop aft a prolonged absence, with Future, Cardi B, 21 Savage and Lil Baby among the galore impermanent stars welcoming him home.

Tate McRae, “Tit for Tat” 

Capping disconnected a breakthrough twelvemonth that’s included her archetypal No. 1 album, an arena headlining circuit and a soundtrack deed with “Just Keep Watching,” Tate McRae stays prolific connected “Tit for Tat,” an indignant kiss-off to an ex that volition surely support the rumor mill progressive pursuing the popular star’s breakup with The Kid LAROI — but ...