Fans Pick BTS Member Suga's 'D-2' Mixtape as This Week's Favorite New Music

NEW YORK -- The title of Norah Jones’ new album, “Pick Me Up Off the Floor,” has two chief meanings. After spending two years recording one-off monthly sessions, the piano-playing jazz-pop singer realized she had enough great songs piled up.

Kane Brown's uplifting new song "Worldwide Beautiful" has topped this week's new music poll.In the poll, published Friday (June 5) on Billboard, music fans voted for the Dann Huff-produced track, which Brown has dedicated to the movement against racism and discrimination. The uplifting number brought in nearly 50% of the vote."I’m releasing this song early that I’ve been holding onto for a year," Brown wrote on Instagram.

It’s been another tough week between the ongoing pandemic and the protests for racial justice. A number of titles were pushed back a week out of deference to Black Out Tuesday, but there are still some worthy releases, including one that thoughtfully addresses the current racial discord.

Run the Jewels to Kane Brown and YG have channeled the national mood into powerful new music.

K-pop stans showed the world why they're such a loyal, hardworking fanbase with their recent gesture on Twitter to help smoothen the process of the Black Lives Matter movement. With Twitter hashtags like #BlueLivesMatter and #WhiteLivesMatter trying to steer the wheel to different propaganda, K-pop stans flooded these hashtags with fan cams of their idols and hence proved a worthwhile point. During this process, BTS member V became a viral sensation within the non K-pop fans, once again.

Suga made sure that the quarantine period would not go in vain as he treated BTS fans with the release of his second mixtape, D-2, under his alter-ego's name, AGUST D. Along with the hard-hitting mixtape, Yoongi also dropped the thrilling music video for the lead single, Daechwita, which had ARMY gasping for their breath. However, Suga also came under fire for one of the tracks, What Do You Think? as it used cult leader Jim Jones' sermon in the introduction to the song.

We're only a few short days away from the start of Pride Month — so get a jump on the celebrations with the latest new music from LGBTQ artists! Billboard Pride is proud to present our latest edition of First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new weekly music releases from queer artists.

The forecast for this week's weather involves heavy showers from Lady Gaga's sixth album Chromatica, fire from Rosalía and Travis Scott's "TKN" joint and clear skies from Kygo's Golden Hour LP.

Happy New Music Friday!

Tinashe is having a moment. After her North American tour was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the songstress decided to take advantage of her time in quarantine and make new music—something that she finally feels "free" to do on her own terms, she told E!'s Scott Tweedie.  "...I feel creatively free.

Cardi B teased a new song while talking to fans on Instagram Live on Monday. Responding to a fan who asked about new music, the rapper joked that she wouldn’t release anything until she lost weight.

Another day, another clip of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly acting in a very flirty manner with one another! MGK, 30, has been pulling out all the stops to get his fans to check out his newest video, “Bloody Valentine,” which prominently features the gorgeous actress.

This Memorial Day weekend's forecast might call for sunshine, but Arianators and the Little Monsters hope it pours after their favorites Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga released their first collaborative song "Rain On Me."

Happy New Music Friday!

Within seven years, BTS has managed to align itself as a global sensation, who took over the world with their music and the message that they sent across to the youth. Known as ARMY, their fans have increased over time and the loyalty that they have toward the band and vice versa are commendable. On several occasions, BTS members have confided that because of their fame, they don't have a lot of friends while reiterating that ARMY are like friends to them.

It's been quite some time since Lorde stepped out of the spotlight.

She promises that her new music is "so fucking good"

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