Get ready to find your new favourite song, here are the top 5 new music releases for you to listen to this week. Tara Pilkington reports.
Lady Gaga, BLACKPINK – Sour Candy
The long-awaited collaboration between Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK is here! After its initial release, it debuted at No. 6 on the global Spotify chart with over 3.67 million streams and No. 12 in the United States with over 757,000 streams. “Sour Candy” is the third pre-release single off Lady Gaga’s album Chromatica, following “Stupid Love” and the Ariana Grande collaboration “Rain on Me”.
Winona Oak & Robin Schulz – Oxygen
Building on the ethereal nature of her debut EP, this collaboration between Winona Oak and superstar producer Robin Schulz offers up an alluring and smoky pop track which you’ll definitely have on repeat. Commenting on the track, Oak has said: “Oxygen’ is all about that – to feel like your whole existence is depending on that one person. You just can’t breathe without them.”
ROSALÍA & Travis Scott – TKN
Rosalía and Travis Scott have released a new collaboration called “TKN” and an accompanying music video. This is the artists’ second collaboration, following a remix of Scott’s “Highest in the Room,” released last December. In a statement, Rosalía explained that now, while the world is on pause, is the perfect time to unveil the collab.
Saint Raymond – Right Way Round
Saint Raymond is one of the rising stars in the world of music, and this new track shows why! Commenting on this new release, he has said: “Right Way Round is about feeling like you’re on the outside, like you’re floating through life and it’s making you feel alone. But the more you scratch the surface and look around you, realise that there’s a load of us who feel like we’re different, on the outside and unsure of the future and that there’s beauty in that”
Jordan Stephens – Son Of A Gun
Jordan Stephens returns with his latest track which is an honest and emotionally charged song which blends together alternative Pop, R&B and Hip Hop. Commenting on this new release, he has said: “This phenomenon of the cycles of trauma in young men is not just exclusive to fatherlessness, the sentiment applies to stressed mothers, difficult pregnancies and more. Young boys in particular, then enter into a society that doesn’t necessarily provide an opportunity for them to break out of that emotional cycle. – “The birth of a new society begins with the woman.”
