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: Megan Thee Stallion returns with a song for the lovers, Leon Thomas and Daniel Caesar hold it town for tactile, live-feeling R&B and Bruce Springsteen revisits the same era on record probed by a brand-new Boss biopic.

Megan Thee Stallion, “LOVER GIRL”

It’s been a relatively quiet 2025 for Megan Thee Stallion, but the rap star is back this week with the loved-up anthem “LOVER GIRL.” Riding an always-appropriate sample of ’90s R&B group Total’s swooning love song “Kissin’ You,” Megan makes plenty kissy sounds of her own, while spitting about how your guy and hers

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