Billboard’s First Stream 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, Fiona Apple returns when we need her most, Sam Smith and Demi Lovato are “ready” to take over pop radio, and DaBaby can’t stop and won’t stop.
Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below:The Album That’s Going To Be On Every Year-End List: Fiona Apple, Fetch The Bolt Cutters1996, 1999, 2005, 2012, and now, 2020: Fiona Apple album releases are rare occurrences, comet-like in their relative infrequency, and when a songwriter as brilliant and unique as Apple returns to our orbit, it’s cause for celebration.