Billboard’s Friday Music Guide 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.

This week, Ed Sheeran is ready to Play, Drake showcases a surprising guest and Twenty One Pilots conclude another story. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Ed Sheeran, Play

Following a pair of somber albums in 2023, Ed Sheeran returns to brightly lit pop with Play, which combines explorations of global sounds (the upbeat singles “Azizam” and “Sapphire”), wistful reflections (“Old Phone” and “Heaven”) and more fodder for wedding playlists (“The Vow,” a touching ode to his marriage which actually sounds primed for your vow-renewal gatherings).

Drake feat. Yeat & Juli

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