What’s Your Favorite New Music Release of the Week? Vote!

With March coming to a close, the music releases haven’t slowed down with a number of A-list stars dropping new singles and albums.

Kicking things off is Ariana Grande’s Brighter Days Ahead deluxe edition of her 2024 Billboard 200 chart-topping album, Eternal Sunshine. The extended edition of the original 13-song project features six new tracks, including “Twilight Zone,” “Warm,” “Dandelion,” “Past Life,” “Hampstead” and “Intro (End of the World) Extended,” a longer version of the emotional opening track on the original LP.

Lil Durk released his Deep Thoughts album from behind bars. The project features assists from Future, Lil Baby, Hunxho and Jhené Aiko, and marks Durk’s first album since 2023’s Almost Healed. Lil Durk was arrested in October 2024 on federal murder-for-hire charges. 

Selena Gomez also finally released her fan-favorite previously unreleased track “Stained,” which was written sometime pre-Rare, but after 2015’s Revival. The song, originally produced by her now-fiancé Benny Blanco, was first teased in 2016 when the singer shared a snippet. The track eventually leaked in full on the internet, but didn’t make the cut on either of Gomez’s next two albums. Now, it’s available for fans to enjoy in full.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. More star-studded releases this week include Lucy Dacus’ Forever Is a Feeling, Playboi Carti’s Music – Sorry 4 Da Wait, Linkin Park’s “Up From the Bottom,” Feid’s “DALLAX” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, Mumford & Sons’ Rushmere, Jessie Reyez’s Paid in Memories and Free Range’s Lost & Found.

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