Friday Music Guide: New Music From Ed Sheeran, Drake, Twenty One Pilots 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, Ed Sheeran is acceptable to Play, Drake showcases a astonishing impermanent and Twenty One Pilots reason different story. Check retired each of this week’s picks below:

Ed Sheeran, Play 

Following a brace of somber albums successful 2023, Ed Sheeran returns to brightly lit popular with Play, which combines explorations of planetary sounds (the upbeat singles “Azizam” and “Sapphire”), wistful reflections (“Old Phone” and “Heaven”) and much fodder for wedding playlists (“The Vow,” a touching ode to his matrimony which really sounds primed for your vow-renewal gatherings). 

Drake feat. Yeat & Julia Wolf, “Dog House” 

Although Drake and Yeat walk the bulk of “Dog House” trading bars astir money, enactment and powerfulness — with Drizzy adjacent quoting his ain No. 1 smash “One Dance” astatine 1 constituent — the astonishment prima present is indie singer-songwriter Julia Wolf, who provides a jolt of vigor connected the song’s instauration earlier the zapped beat, and Drake’s chest-thumping boasts, are crashed in.

Twenty One Pilots, Breach 

If 2024’s Clancy didn’t precisely extremity the multi-album communicative arc that Twenty One Pilots had been crafting for years, past caller full-length Breach places a play connected this peculiar travel — portion besides offering immoderate of the long-running alt-rock duo’s astir bruising riffs and contiguous hooks to date, climaxing with the five-and-a-half infinitesimal centerpiece “Downstairs” successful the mediate of the way list.

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