Friday Music Guide: New Music From Jisoo & ZAYN, Khalid, HAIM & Bon Iver 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, it’s each astir collabs — betwixt 2 alums from blockbuster megapop groups, a mates seasoned indie favorites, and a brace of genre-crossing TDE s–t-talkers — as good arsenic a mates longtime hitmakers inactive going it solo.

JISOO with ZAYN, “Eyes Closed”

If popular groups stocked with breakout solo stars is your thing, you’re undoubtedly precise excited astir the accomplishment of “Eyes Closed,” a gathering of BLACKPINK and One Direction alums. JISOO and ZAYN squad up present for an emotional, tender ballad with pulsing synths and booming drums — not dissimilar from mid-’10s ZAYN duets “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” (with Taylor Swift) and “Dusk Till Dawn” (with Sia). Both those songs person watercourse counts successful the aggregate billions, truthful possibly this 1 volition besides beryllium to beryllium catnip connected DSPs.

Khalid, After the Sun Goes Down

After taking a half-decade for 3rd medium Sincerely, hybrid hitmaker Khalid is backmost with LP4 successful conscionable implicit a year’s time: After the Sun Goes Down, his archetypal full-length since coming retired arsenic cheery successful precocious 2024. The breezy 16-track, no-guest effort features a instrumentality to large popular sounds and hooks, with regular Ariana Grande collaborator Ilya serving arsenic enforcement producer, and Khalid uncovering inspiration successful the “Rihannas and the Britneys and the Janets,” arsenic helium explained to Rolling Stone: “I consciousness similar with this album, I knew that I wanted to spell backmost to pop, but I wanted to bash it successful the mode that I felt connected to it the most. I look astatine this arsenic much similar an homage oregon conscionable acknowledgment to the icons that paved the mode for me.”

HAIM & Bon Iver, “Tie You Down”

It’s a pairing made successful early-’10s indie heaven: L.A. p...