Fridays can be overwhelming for pop fans. Every week you're bombarded with a glut of new music, which can lead to ear candy falling through the cracks. I'm hoping to avoid that tragic scenario with The Drop — a cheat sheet of sorts to get you through New Music Friday. By now, you have probably heard Ally Brooke and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's sultry "Lips Don't Lie" and hopefully bopped along to VVAVES...

For the second week in a row, Slayyyter graces us with new music. The 22-year-old is fast becoming one of the most exciting rising voices in pop. Last week, she left our jaws on the floor with her rip-roaring "Daddy AF." Possessing a bone-rattling production and award-winning lyrics (“lickin’ my clit ’til I nut, daddy as fuck” is currently unparalleled on the charts), it demanded our attention....

Update: "Lips Don't Lie" is here, and it more than lives up to expectations. Listen to Ally Brooke's catchy new single below.Ally Brooke's bid for solo stardom continues on Friday (May 24) with the arrival of "Lips Don't Lie." The 25-year-old's second single features A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and sounds like a seriously catchy bop. At least, if the preview is any indication! "One hit, you're mine," she...

Update: "Boys Like You" has arrived. Listen to Iggy Azalea and VVAVES' feisty collab below.Iggy Azalea really means business in 2019. After going viral with two singles ("Sally Walker" and "Started"), the Australian rapper jumps on a new track by VVAVES. The Canadian singer/songwriter announced "Boys Like You" on her social media accounts and it's shaping up to be a fiery fuck-you anthem — at least...

Lewis Capaldi is shaping up to be one of the breakout stars of 2019 thanks to a ballad called "Someone You Loved." The gut-wrenching breakup anthem has already topped the charts in the UK and Europe, and is a fairly safe bet to repeat the feat in America. (Streaming and download data suggests an imminent debut on the Billboard Hot 100). And there are more hits where that came from. The 22-year-old...

It has been an interesting week for Madonna. Her Eurovision performance was roundly criticized (unfairly, in my opinion), but it's going to take more than a minor backlash to keep the Queen of Pop down. The ballsiest 60-year-old on the planet bounces back today (May 22) by unveiling the video for "Crave." Directed by Nuno Xico, the sleek, beautifully-shot visual is wonderfully understated. As much...

Ed Sheeran's sudden onslaught of collaborations makes a lot more sense now. The UK superstar is releasing 14 of them as part of No.6 Collaborations Project — a fancy mixtape (I guess) arriving on July 12. "Before I was signed in 2011, I made an EP called No.5 Collaborations Project," the "Shape Of You" singer explains. "Since then, I've always wanted to do another, so I started No.6 on my laptop...

Carly Rae Jepsen treats pop with the reverence it deserves. The Canadian superstar spent three, long years chipping away at the followup to 2015's universally-loved Emotion. Along the way, she went through a breakup, traveled the world and fell in love again — and captured those highs (and lows) with remarkable clarity on 200 songs. Of those, 15 made the final cut of Dedicated. And each and every...

One of the most exciting trends of 2019 is the increasingly blurred line between country music and other genres. At the forefront of this movement is Kane Brown. The 25-year-old recently lent his gentle twang to a remix of Khalid's "Saturday Nights" and then brushed up on his Spanish for a reggaeton remix of "Lost In The Middle Of Nowhere" with Becky G. His refusal to be confined by tradition really...

K-Pop Queens Red Velvet have their eyes set on global domination this year. The group has been extending their reign with some serious bangers since launching in 2014. Last year, they unleashed a slew of content including their most recent mini-album RBB. The project contained their second all-English track "RBB (Really Bad Boy)" and hit the number 2 spot on Billboard's World Albums chart. In 2019,...

Since emerging as a bubblegum-haired rebel on 2000's Can't Take Me Home, Pink has cobbled together one of the best discographies in pop. She first reinvented herself on Missundaztood and then kept evolving on standout albums like I'm Not Dead and Funhouse. On her last record, however, the 39-year-old struggled to find a place in the streaming-dominated pop world. 2017's Beautiful Trauma still appealed...

Hozier joined the ranks of Ireland's musical elite (U2, Van Morrison, The Cranberries and so many others) when "Take Me To Church" stormed the charts in 2014 and 2015. The 29-year-old backed it up with a mega-selling, critically-adored debut LP and then spent the next two and half years on the road. Instead of rushing back into the studio, the breakout star found a bungalow in the Irish countryside...