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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 Dominic Fike, Mariah Carey and Queens of the Stone Age.

This week, Lil Baby is back with his anticipated fifth album; JENNIE drops a new single for the animated Netflix film STEPS ; Dove Cameron releases her long-awaited debut album; and Boys Noize returns with his first solo studio album in five years.… plus much more.

Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Lil Baby, Fresh

After scoring his third consecutive Billboard 200 No. 1 album with WHAM last year, Lil Baby is gunning for his fourth with Fresh .…