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Music History Events: Releases

July 21, 2025 Tyler, The Creator releases his ninth album, Don't Tap the Glass. Social media and streaming services are quickly flooded with an AI-generated song with that title that comes up in searches, an early indication of how that technology can sow confusion.

May 30, 2025 Miley Cyrus releases her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, featuring the singles "End Of The World" and "Easy Lover." The singer describes the accompanying musical film of the same name as being in the same vein of Pink Floyd's 1982 surrealist film The Wall "but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture."

February 21, 2025 Tate McRae releases her third album, So Close To What, her first to hit #1 in America. The saucy hit "Sports Car" she attributes to her uninhibited alter ego, Tatiana.

August 23, 2024 Sabrina Carpenter releases her sixth album, Short n' Sweet. With the hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please," it's a musical breakout for the former Disney actress, putting her in league with other actress-turned-singers like Ariana Grande and Olivia Rodrigo.

May 31, 2024 Charli XCX releases a remix of her popular song "360," featuring dance-pop artist Robyn and rapper Yung Lean, both of Sweden. Charli and Robyn, who is 13 years her senior, met while they were touring the same festivals in Australia and became good friends.

May 30, 2024 Lola Young releases "Messy," her breakthrough hit. She says it's about "not being able to make someone you love happy when you're just being you, which actually sucks."

May 24, 2024 Twenty One Pilots release Clancy, the concluding chapter of a narrative that began with Blurryface in 2015. The album tells the story of Clancy, a character frontman Tyler Joseph uses as a vehicle to explore depression, anxiety, and addiction, complete with subplots involving mind control, evil bishops, and an oppressive city called Dema that serves as a metaphor for mental illness.

May 3, 2024 Randy Travis, unable to sing as a result of a stroke he suffered in 2011, releases "Where That Came From," a song with his vocal generated by artificial intelligence. It's the first major release from a legacy artist using AI technology to create a vocal from scratch, offering the possibility of more songs from singers - living or dead - that don't have to actually sing on them.

April 19, 2024 Taylor Swift releases The Tortured Poets Department, an album filled with confessional songs written in the aftermath of breakups with Joe Alwyn and The 1975 singer Matt Healy. At 2 a.m. she surprise releases an additional 15 tracks in a second volume of the album called The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.

April 15, 2024 Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé team up on the single "II Most Wanted" from Beyoncé's country-influenced Cowboy Carter album. It peaks at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and wins the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance the following year.

April 11, 2024 Sabrina Carpenter releases Espresso, a frothy bop that becomes her first big hit and is the consensus song of the summer.

November 2, 2023 Using artificial intelligence to isolate John Lennon's vocals from an old demo, The Beatles release a new song: "Now And Then." It goes to #1 in the UK, their 18th chart-topper there.

October 20, 2023 She's got yule, babe: Cher releases her first holiday album, Christmas, with a cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" featuring Darlene Love. Cher sang backup on Love's original version 60 years earlier in 1963.

September 15, 2023 Tate McRae releases her breakout hit, "Greedy," a flirty song with a hockey-themed music video that shows off her extensive dance training.

September 8, 2023 Olivia Rodrigo releases her sophomore album, Guts. Featuring the chart-topping lead single, "Vampire," it's her second album to reach the summit of the Billboard 200 albums chart.

July 28, 2023 Travis Scott releases his highly anticipated fourth album, Utopia. It lives up to the hype, debuting at #1 with all 19 tracks entering the Hot 100 simultaneously. Guests on the album include Beyoncé on "Delresto (Echoes)," Drake on "Meltdown," and Playboi Carti on "FE!N."

June 22, 2023 Peso Pluma, who rose to superstar status with his take on Mexican corridos, releases his album Génesis. It climbs to #3 in the US, setting the mark for highest chart position reached by a Mexican music album.

May 18, 2023 Kylie Minogue releases the heart-thumping "Padam Padam," her first big hit in over a decade. It earns the Grammy for Best Pop Dance Recording.

March 10, 2023 Miley Cyrus releases her eighth album, Endless Summer Vacation. Some of the songs, including the #1 hit "Flowers," seem to take aim at her ex-husband, the actor Liam Hemsworth.

March 3, 2023 Morgan Wallen releases his third album, One Thing At A Time. It spends 15 weeks at #1, the most for a country artist since 1992, when Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus spent 17 weeks at the top.

February 3, 2023 After years of frustration waiting for her record company to release her debut album, My 21st Century Blues, Raye finally puts it out independently. The song "Escapism," which deals with her unhealthy coping mechanisms during this time, is a #1 hit in her native UK.

January 11, 2023 "Shakira" lets loose on her ex, the soccer star Gerard Piqué, on "Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53," a collaboration with the dance music producer Bizarrap that becomes her first US Top 10 hit since her Beyoncé collaboration "Beautiful Liar" in 2007.

December 9, 2022 SZA releases her second album, SOS, which debuts at #1 in America. Many of the songs find her navigating a toxic relationship, including the big hit "Kill Bill," where she considers offing her ex.

October 21, 2022 Taylor Swift releases her 10th album, Midnights. It breaks the Spotify record for most streams in a single day, previously held by Swift's Red (Taylor's Version) from the previous year.

October 14, 2022 Blink-182 celebrate Tom DeLonge's return after an eight-year hiatus with the new single "Edging." The vocalist/guitarist left the band twice since its inception in 1992, founding the band Angels & Airwaves in the interim, but mended fences with his band members after bassist Mark Hoppus was diagnosed with cancer.

October 14, 2022 After teasing songs on social media for two years, Noah Kahan finally issues his third album, Stick Season, which marks his shift from indie-pop to folk and launches him into the mainstream.More

October 12, 2022 Following years as a featured vocalist for the likes of Jonas Blue, Jax Jones and David Guetta, Raye releases her breakthrough single, "Escapism," a song about "running away from reality as fast as you possibly can." Months later, it's included on her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.

July 15, 2022 After four somewhat disappointing albums with Hollywood Records, Sabrina Carpenter releases Emails I Can't Send on Island, built around the concept of messages she wrote but never sent. It includes the breakout hit Nonsense and leads to a gig opening for Taylor Swift.

July 8, 2022 Two years after he first teased the song on TikTok, Noah Kahan releases "Stick Season," his first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The lovelorn folk tune takes its title from the phrase Vermonters use to describe the depressing transition between fall and winter that leaves the trees, and the soul, barren.

May 20, 2022 Harry Styles releases his third solo album, Harry's House, which debuts at #1 in the US, UK, and many other countries. Hits from the album include "As It Was" and "Late Night Talking."