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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.

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Last week , we featured LISA, Miley, Kacey Musgraves & John Mayer.

This week, Dominic Fike drops his first LP as a minted hitmaker; Mariah Carey takes another glance at her polarizing Glitter project and Queens of the Stone Age turns down the amps for its ninth album… plus much more.

Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Dominic Fike, How to Quit Smoking

It feels like one of 2026’s most-anticipated LPs, given how this was the year that mainstream-adjacent singer-songwriter Dominic Fike belatedly proved himself as a pop hitmaker, with the long-running Hot 100 hits “Babydoll” and “White Keys.” But while How to Quit Smoking is one of the autumn’s most…