New Releases

This week's full list of New Music Friday releases appears at the bottom of the page. First up, some highlights:

• BTS release Map Of The Soul: 7, which is their seventh studio album, in case you were losing track. It features co-writes from Ed Sheeran, Troye Sivan and Allie X, plus an actual on-record collaboration with Sia. Their last album release in the UK reached Number 1 - expect this to make a similaly high entry on the Official Albums Chart.

• Europa – aka dance banger aficionados Jax Jones and Martin Solveig – unveil new single Tequila, which features Raye. It’s probably a bit early (and wishful) to start talking about songs of the summer, right?

• Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne releases Ordinary Man, his first solo record in ten years. It’s a star-studded affair - featuring Elton John on the title track as well as Post Malone, Slash and Tom Morello - but its doom-laden lyrics and Ozzy’s unmistakable vocal ensure he remains the star of the show.

• Grimes finally unveils her fifth album, Miss Anthropocene, a (loose) concept record about climate change and the end of the world. This is Grimes, so expect an eclectic mix of everything from psychedelic pop to industrial rock.

• Six weeks after releasing her new album Rare, Selena Gomez has put out a new song – except it’s actually an old one. Feel Me first surfaced as a live performance during Selena’s Revival tour in 2016 and fans have been clamouring to hear the final version ever since. Here’s to more artists dropping old unreleased songs in 2020.

• Lauv has said his new track Modern Loneliness “my favourite song I’ve ever made”, which is quite a statement when you look at what he’s put out so far. It’s got a massive, singalong chorus though, so he could well be right.   

MORE: Big album releases coming in 2020

Check out this full listings of new singles, albums and DVD/Blu-rays out this week below: