SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026
Some New Music Fridays feel like a light drizzle. Yesterday's was a downpour. The headliner, by the numbers, is Pitbull's Pitcoin — his 13th studio album, his first full-length since TrackHouse in October 2023, and the week's biggest release by DraftKings Network's count at 78.8 million Spotify monthly listeners. But the depth behind it is what makes this week worth a full column: Troye Sivan's fourth album, Remi Wolf's raw third LP, a new Pet Shop Boys record, a Tennessee-cabin Greta Van Fleet set, a posthumous Todd Snider sendoff, and a singles list that runs from Carly Rae Jepsen to Royal Blood. Let's go album by album.
Start with the obvious. Pitbull at nearly 79 million monthly listeners is, by that measure, one of the most-played artists on the planet — and Pitcoin is his first proper studio record in three years. Our full Pitcoin breakdown digs into the 24-track set and its guest list; the short version is that Mr. Worldwide does not do small album rollouts, and this one arrives exactly the way you'd expect: big, loud, and built for clubs on two continents.
Troye Sivan: She's the Best
Troye Sivan's fourth album, She's the Best, lands three years after 2023's Something to Give Each Other, and at 19.7 million monthly listeners he's the week's second-biggest album release. Sivan has always understood the assignment of the pop album as an event rather than a product — his videos are short films, his eras are color-coded — and the title suggests he's leaning into his own mythology this time. Our week-ahead roundup flagged the record as led by a Nicole Kidman-starring title video, which tells you everything about the ambition level here. Pop records this deliberate don't come around every Friday.
Remi Wolf: Mud — the week's most interesting record
If Pitcoin is the week's biggest release, Mud is its most interesting. Remi Wolf's third album arrives on Island Records, an 11-track follow-up to 2024's Big Ideas, and the making of it reads like a healing itinerary: recorded with live instrumentation alongside longtime collaborator Jared Solomon and friends Jack DeMeo, Jamie McLaughlin and GiGi Grombacher, with sessions moving from Nashville to a Big Bear retreat, Electric Lady Studios in New York, and finally Joshua Tree — Wolf sometimes behind the drum kit herself, per JamBase's release-day rundown.
Wolf has described Mud as her "healer" record, and the way she talks about making it backs that up. "I feel like I've crossed into a new phase of life because of this album," she told JamBase. "I literally felt like I was covered in shit. And now, at the end of the album process, I feel so clean and clear." That's raw even by Wolf's standards — she's an artist whose whole thing is saying the thing nobody else will say — and the two pre-release singles, "Twiggy" and "Bottle," both suggested an artist clearing the deck.
Here's why Mud matters beyond Wolf's own catalog: it's the rare major-label pop record that chose live band takes and geographic wandering over laptop perfection. In a year where plenty of big pop releases sound like they were assembled from the same sample pack, a record that moves through four studios chasing a feeling is a statement of intent. Wolf called it her "healer" record; it's also her most committed one.
Pet Shop Boys: A Man From the Future
The Pet Shop Boys releasing a record called A Man From the Future in 2026 is its own kind of poetry. At 11.4 million monthly listeners, the duo is the week's third-biggest album release — a reminder that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have outlasted nearly every one of their '80s contemporaries as a going concern. Few acts have managed the trick of being both a legacy act and a genuinely current band; the Pet Shop Boys keep doing it by treating every album like it matters instead of coasting on the catalog. A Man From the Future continues that streak.
Greta Van Fleet: Palace for the People
Greta Van Fleet's fourth album, Palace for the People, follows 2023's Starcatcher and arrived on Republic Records yesterday. The details, per JamBase: the band wrote it in a remote Tennessee cabin, recorded it there this spring, and co-produced it with Mike Elizondo — their first project together. The title traces back to London's Alexandra Palace, which the band headlined in 2022 and which was originally called The Palace Of The People. Guitarist Jake Kiszka said of the album, according to JamBase: "As much as it is a Greta Van Fleet record and a rock 'n' roll record at its core, in its heart, it's a very modern record." At 5 million monthly listeners, it's one of the biggest pure-rock releases of the year — and a Tennessee cabin is exactly the right place for this band to make it.
The rest of the album slate
Two more records deserve more than a line. Jamie T's Ghosts (100 Days of Morning) (2 million monthly listeners) is a genuine event for anyone who followed the British indie wave — his albums are infrequent enough that each one is an occasion. And Todd Snider's posthumous My Second Rodeo is the week's heaviest listen by context alone: Snider recorded the 10 songs in September and October 2025 at his East Nashville studio, The Purple Building, shortly before his death in November, with Joe Bisirri and Robbie Crowell finishing the record from his emails and voice memos. Lead single "Solid Country Gold" was co-written with Jack Ingram in August 2025. "This album is a glimpse into the creative outpouring from Todd in September and October of 2025," Bisirri told JamBase.
Also on the shelf: Geese frontman Cameron Winter's first live album, Live at Carnegie Hall (Partisan/Play It Again Sam) — 11 tracks from his December 2025 solo show in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, with a companion concert film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that Janus Films and Criterion will take on a 35mm North American theatrical tour starting November 20. Jess Williamson's A Mile South of Heaven, her first for New West Records, produced by Shooter Jennings at Sunset Sound. The Tallest Man on Earth's Just Beyond Endless Mountain on ANTI-. Dawn Richard's Creole Culture, closing out her New Orleans trilogy on Merge. And John Prine's Found Dogs, a 10-track archival collection from Oh Boy Records marking the 30th anniversary of Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings, arriving digitally one day before what would have been Prine's 80th birthday.
One pointer: Sheryl Crow's Pick You Up — her twelfth studio album, seven songs co-written with Jeff Trott — is covered in full in today's music roundup, including the 2027 Kenny Chesney tour dates. It's the week's warm-blanket record; the roundup has the complete story.
The singles list
The week's new songs, ranked by Spotify monthly listeners per DraftKings Network's radar: Carly Rae Jepsen's Love Depressed leads at 23.2 million — more music from one of pop's most consistent songwriters. PNAU's Change (14.2M) and Passenger's Ghosts (13.7M) follow, then Lainey Wilson's Kinda Love It (10.2M), Skillibeng's City (10.1M), and Slayyyter's I Think He's Got a Girl (9.6M). Good Charlotte team with Ziggy Marley on U R (7M/1.5M); Lil Mosey and Hurricane Wisdom drop Lifestyle (6.4M/2M); Interplanetary Criminal offers Memories (4M); Royal Blood return with Dead Company (3.2M). The long tail: Florence Road's Wish Upon You, Cat Burns' Is It That Deep?, LeoStayTrill's Time is Money, Arlo Parks' Waiting For Me, and Johnny Orlando's Praying Mantis (If you love me to death).
Most of the week's releases dropped at 9 p.m. PT Thursday night (midnight ET Friday), per DraftKings Network's FAQ — so by the time you're reading this, everything above is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music. Start with Mud if you want the record of the week, Pitcoin if you want the party, and Snider's My Second Rodeo if you want to feel something.
13th studio album, first since TrackHouse (Oct 2023); week's biggest release at 78.8M Spotify monthly listeners. Full breakdown: pitbull-pitcoin-album-release-october-9.
