Bruno Mars is back with The Romantic, his first solo studio LP since 2016’s 24K Magic. Featuring the Top 5 single I Just Might, can the record earn Bruno a hat-trick of chart-toppers alongside 2010 debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans and 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox?
K-pop idols BLACKPINK follow up their 2022 chart-topper BORN PINK with DEADLINE. ROSÉ, LISA, JENNIE and JISOO’s latest EP includes the 2025 Top 20 single JUMP, plus focus track GO.
Also hoping for another Number 1 win are Gorillaz, who deliver their ninth studio album The Mountain this week. Previously, the band have topped the Official Albums Chart with 2005 work Demon Days and 2023’s Cracker Island, with a further six UK Top 40 LPs to their name.
Mitski returns with her eighth studio collection Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, the follow-up to her highest-charting release to date, 2023’s The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (4).
Rising East London rapper Kidwild drops his debut mixtape Job’s Not Done. Elsewhere, BRIT-nominated band Geese offer up their Live at Third Man Records set, rising alt-rock artist Ria Rua unleashes her debut album SCAPEG.O.A.T., Erin LeCount unveils PAREIDOLIA, Kevin Richard Martin delivers Sub Zero and American rock outfit Crooked Fingers release Swet Deth.
Now, let’s talk singles.
After clinching the first chart-topper of 2026 with WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!, and ahead of her performance at this weekend’s BRIT Awards in Manchester, RAYE returns with Nightingale Lane., the latest cut from her second studio album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE., due March 27.
Speaking of the BRITs, two-time nominated artist Skye Newman strides into 2026 with her first single of the year, Walk. Can she make it a week to remember by picking up an award as well as a fourth Top 40 hit?
Independent London-based singer-songwriter CHARLS shares a familiar story of frustration on Begging On My Birthday. Tired of begging for her partner’s attention, she’s after “the bare minimum.”
On the track, CHARLS explains: “A common occurrence was that I was the organiser of everything. I’m definitely guilty of taking up a lot of space by being overly maternal but the effort I put in for my partner on his birthday just wasn’t reciprocated.
“The overall statement in the song is, if you can’t show up for me on my birthday then we’re pretty much damned for the rest of the year, aren’t we? I love that you can hear some of my favourite indie influences in this song, specifically Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap.”
Mulaa Joans unleashes her latest single Love Letter, which dives head first into doubt, disappointment and de-railed relations through her emotionally enticing and luring melody.
Breakout Manchester five-piece The Guest List take aim at a post-truth world on new single Something Real, which comes ahead of their upcoming headline tour, kicking off at Dublin’s Academy 2 on April 7.
Ahead of his performance at this weekend’s BRIT Awards at Manchester’s Co-op Live, International Song of the Year nominee Alex Warren releases brand-new tune FEVER DREAM, as Ava Max invites you to step into her ‘new world’ with KiLL it QUEEN.
Rising Bath-based singer-songwriter Ruby Roberts drops I’d Do Anything, while Grace Davies teams up with Sonny Tennet on Butterflies, a heart-wrenching love song written about her grandparents’ battle with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
Sonny Fodera ushers in some welcome sunshine as he recruits chart-topping singer, songwriter and producer Chrystal on feel-good house anthem My Loving, while British singer, songwriter and pianist Hutch offers up Coasting.
We also find big single releases from new Capitol Records signing Jael (Prisoner of Love), MOLIY and bees & honey (PARTYGYAL), Saint Harison (glass houses), Isak Danielson (Always You), Laufey (How I Get), Melanie Martinez (DISNEY PRINCESS), Tom Misch (Slow Tonight) and girli (Romantic Sadness).
New Music Friday song, album and DVD releases for February 27 2026: