Fans Pick Sam Hunt's 'Southside' as This Week's Favorite New Music

By Will Thorne

Fiona Apple's new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, has topped this week's new music poll.In the poll, published Friday (April 17) on Billboard, music fans voted for Apple's long-awaited fifth studio release as their favorite new release from this week.The 42-year-old artist's Fetch the Bolt Cutters album arrived Friday, marking Apple's first new album in eight years.

Fiona Apple, Playboi Carti and Brett Eldredge brought a week of comeback music, and it's bound to hold fans over quite well during quarantine. But which new music release is doing the trick for you?Apple's fifth album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, bridges the eight-year gap between the art-pop singer-songwriter's last project, with piano crescendos, cymbals crashing and other sonic anomalies only the 42-year-old artist could pull off.

New music Fridays are a thrilling, yet daunting prospect for any music lover.  It's essentially a weekly holiday where fan-favorite artists and fresh faces alike drop their latest offerings for all the world to hear, flooding streaming services and digital retailers with an onslaught of aural goodies.

Sam Hunt is back with a new track!

Zach Crowell hits No. 1 on Billboard's Country Producers chart (dated April 18), leading for the first time thanks to seven production credits on the latest Hot Country Songs chart, all via songs performed by Sam Hunt.All seven tracks appear on Hunt's new sophomore LP Southside, which debuts at No.

Sam Hunt appeared on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday evening (April 13) from the comfort of his studio to perform his infectious single “Hard to Forget.”The country singer-songwriter shared his stripped-down version of the song alone on guitar, with the help of a backing track.“Hey everybody. My band couldn’t join me this evening, so I’m going to try to make do here at the studio,” Hunt told viewers.

Artists are getting creative in isolation as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, and Alesso and Liam Payne managed to film a music video for their new collaboration, "Midnight" -- and win over fans in the process.In this week's eclectic new music poll, Alesso and Payne's joint effort brought in about 37 percent of the total vote.

Viva Friday is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors.

Artists chipped in more quarantine blues this week, with special regards to The Strokes returning to the music scene with their first album in seven years The New Abnormal, which toes the line between experimental and classic guitar rock. Charli XCX ditched the delicate dance by releasing her explosive, AutoTune- and synth-heavy "Forever" track from her new album she's been wrapping up during quarantine.

Charli XCX wants fans to send her videos of themselves self-isolating to create a music video for her new single Forever.

Roswell, New Mexico's Isobel Evans has been through a lot over the past few weeks.  First, she discovered that her husband was not who she thought he was, and was secretly an evil alien who compelled her to kill someone a decade ago. Then he died, and her brother Max died, and the girl she had been compelled to kill came back to life.

The end of another week brings a host of new music by everyone from Drake and DaBaby to Sam Hunt and Steve Aoki, and Billboard wants to know which new release you have on repeat!Will you be spending the weekend making TikTok videos to Drake's infectious "Toosie Slide"? Have you been waiting five-plus years for Hunt's sophomore album Southside, or even longer (twelve whole years!) for Lindsay Lohan to mount a musical comeback with her clubby new track "Back To Me?"Perhaps you're ready to throw a

Lorde may have some music in the works.

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

The New Zealand artist is thought to be working on the follow-up to 'Melodrama'

Fans have voted for Tommy Torres' YouTube live stream as their favorite Latin at-home concert.While the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter took the lead in the Billboard Latin poll with more than 35% of the vote, urban singer Justin Quiles ended in second place with 28%.

NEW YORK -- Sam Hunt’s sophomore album opens and closes with two of the most personal songs he’s ever written, as he draws from his own life to paint candid portraits for listeners.

Rosa came back from the dead, and so did all of her problems.  At the end of season one of Roswell, New Mexico, Rosa (Amber Midthunder) was brought back to life after she was discovered to be preserved in an alien pod underground. Unfortunately, Max Evans (Nathan Dean Parsons) had to sacrifice himself to save her, and now not only does Rosa have to live with that guilt, but she's also got Max contacting her from what may or may not be purgatory, asking her to prevent Liz from saving him.

Dua Lipa has already rang in the release of her latest album, Future Nostalgia, with a virtual party full of family and friends-- and her fans were eager to celebrate it by showing her love in this week's new music poll, too.