Best New Songs of the Week

Nicki Minaj at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit in 2018
Nicki Minaj at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit in 2018. Photo by Carl Timpone/BFA/REX/Shutterstock (9665158pb)

After several slow weeks for new music releases, the world’s leading artists came into December with guns blazing! From Nicki Minaj and Tate McRae to Tems and Griff, our favorite artists have given us musical gold this Friday and made their way to our list of the best songs of the week.

Nicki Minaj’s long-awaited album Pink Friday 2 finally hit the shelves this week, and it was worth the wait! This album has given us countless epic songs, but “Pink Friday Girls”, which samples Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, is definitely one of the standouts.

Tate McRae also knocked it out of the park with her sophomore album “Think Later”. The Canadian singer is living up to the title of the next pop princess, and “Run for the Hills” is one of the best songs that her second studio album has in store.

This week has also been amazing for fans of R&B, with Griff’s “Astronaut”, Tems’s “Not An Angel”, and “Risk It All” by Usher and H.E.R. from The Color Purple making it to our list.

New songs by Alec Benjamin, Green Day, Fletcher, Peso Pluma, and Anitta also made the cut, so stick around to hear them out!

Tate McRae: “Run for the Hills”

Tems: “Not An Angel”

Nicki Minaj: “Pink Friday Girls”

Alec Benjamin: “I Sent My Therapist To Therapy”

Green Day: “Dilemma”

Griff: “Astronaut”

USHER & H.E.R.: “Risk It All”

Fletcher: “Eras Of Us”

Pharrell Williams, Swae Lee, Rauw Alejandro: “Airplane Tickets”

Peso Pluma, Anitta: “BELLAKEO”