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Music Buyer’s Guide May 2022
New music from the 2022 ACM Entertainer of the Year. See page 3 for details.
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Music 82 Universal Music Entertainment • Pop/Rock The hit music series is back with a new collection featuring the top hits in rock, hip-hop, R&B, country, and beyond. 14955662 $18.99 AVAILABLE MAY 6
Pride Universal Music Entertainment • Pop/Rock Artists: Queen, George Michael Celebrate Pride with favorite anthems from pop icons Lady Gaga, Fletcher ft. Hayley Kiyoko, Lil Nas X, Elton John and Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Adam Lambert, and many more! 14980844 $18.99 AVAILABLE MAY 20
A Decade! 2000s NOW! Music • Pop/Rock Artists: Britney Spears, Katy Perry NOW Decade 2000s celebrates the biggest artists and hits of the early 2000s! Includes music from Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, Miley Cyrus, and more. 14955663 $18.99 AVAILABLE MAY 6
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New albums from the biggest names. / Best of May Chris Janson All In
Florence + the Machine Dance Fever
Warner Music Nashville • Country Chris Janson, the voice behind the hit Buy Me a Boat, returns with his fourth album. Along with the single Cold Beer Truth, there are collaborations with Eric Church, Rhett Atkins, and Travis Tritt. 14938914 $11.99
Republic Records • Pop/Rock Florence is at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized selfknowledge, poking fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, and more. 14949490 $13.99 AVAILABLE MAY 13
The Black Keys Dropout Boogie
Miranda Lambert Palomino
Nonesuch • Pop/Rock Guest Artist: Billy F Gibbons As they’ve done their entire career, the Black Keys wrote all the material for their new album in the studio, and the album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together. 14945376 $11.99
Vanner Records/RCA Records Label Nashville • Country Guest Artists: The B-52’s Miranda Lambert has crafted an album that explores the world and the people in it, seeking beauty and adventure all around. Her new album also includes the single Strange. 14955676 $9.99
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AWOLNATION My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me
Ella Mai Heart on My Sleeve
Better Noise Music • Pop/Rock Guest Artists: Beck, Jewel A fiercely collaborative and celebratory project. It’s an eclectic collection of masterfully crafted and carefully curated covers, with each track featuring at least one acclaimed musical artist. $15.99 14935458
10 Summers Records, Inc./ Interscope Records • R&B Following a record-breaking debut, Ella Mai brings listeners her highly anticipated second album. 14990346 $13.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY AVAILABLE MAY 6
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Harry Styles Harry’s House Columbia Records • Pop/Rock The third solo studio album from Grammy Award-winning global superstar Harry Styles. The 13-track album was recorded in multiple locations across the UK, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. It also features the single As It Was. 14990859 $13.99 AVAILABLE MAY 20
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Hot New Releases
Hit digital release now available on CD.
King Von What It Means to Be King Only the Family Ent • Rap/Hip-Hop Guest Artists: G Herbo, 21 Savage The first posthumous album from late Chicago legend King Von. Known as one of the great storytellers in modern hip-hop, Von’s untimely passing in November 2020 came on the verge of him reaching superstardom. PARENTAL ADVISORY 14964314 $12.99
Vince Staples Ramona Park Broke My Heart Motown Records; • Rap/Hip-Hop Acclaimed hip-hop artist Vince Staples follows up his intimate self-titled album with a new release. It is inspired by Long Beach’s Ramona Park neighborhood, a place that is dear to Vince’s heart. $13.99 14962962 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Sabrina Claudio Based on a Feeling Atlantic MOD • R&B Sabrina Claudio is one of the fastest rising stars in R&B. Her new album builds upon the growing buzz around her and includes the single Better Version. $15.99 14985552 AVAILABLE MAY 6
Marc Anthony Pa’lla Vioy Sony Music Latin • Latin Grammy and Latin Grammy Awardwinning superstar Marc Anthony is back with his first new album since 2019’s Opus. After a digital release, it is now available on CD. $8.99 14962941
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm Carry Me Home Anti • R&B Captured live in the summer of 2011, this showcases two of the past century’s most iconic voices coming together in love and joy, tracing their shared roots and celebrating the enduring power of faith and music. $14.99 14980846 AVAILABLE MAY 20
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Top titles from the music world. / Hot New Releases Anne Wilson My Jesus Sparrow • Religious Guest Artists: Hillary Scott, Crowder Anne Wilson’s highly anticipated debut album features the chart-topping hit My Jesus and standout tracks Sunday Sermons; Hey Girl; God Thing; and Mamas (with Hillary Scott). 14928674 $11.99
Craig David 22 Moor Records • R&B Craig David brings his smooth R&B style to a brand new album, his first since 2018. It features the tracks My Heart’s Been Waiting for You and Who You Are. 14763418 $14.99 AVAILABLE MAY 13
Kehlani Blue Water Road Atlantic MOD • R&B Kehlani has given fans a taste of what’s to come on her new album with the singles Altar and Little Story. The latest from the R&B star also includes Up at Night, a collaboration with Justin Bieber. 14985553 $16.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Hank Williams Jr. Rich White Honky Blues
Victor Manuelle Lado A Lado B
Easy Eye Sound • Blues Recorded live with the finest musicians at producer Dan Auerbach’s legendary studio, Easy Eye Sound. Never one to rest on his laurels, even after 56 studio albums, Hank Williams Jr. is still finding new creative ground to explore. 14975689 $14.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Sony Music Latin • Latin Guest Artists: Miky Woodz, Marvin Santiago, Farina Right as he stars as a judge on the Univision reality series Tu Cara Me Suena, Victor Manuelle is releasing a new album that includes the single Vamo’ a Ver Si el Gas Pela. 14970002 $8.99
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Alison Wonderland Loner
Jonny Greenwood The Power of the Dog
Astralwerks • Pop/Rock Following on from her 2018 album, which topped the dance charts in the US and Australia, Alison Wonderland returns with her first record in four years, Loner. Featuring Fear of Dying; New Day; and more. $13.99 14962976 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Lakeshore Records • Soundtracks Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood creates an Academy Award-nominated score that combines the themes of the acclaimed film with hints of classical moods and chilled atmosphere. $14.99 14962932 AVAILABLE MAY 27
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Rock
Arcade Fire We Sony Music A 40-minute epic that is as much about the forces that threaten to pull us away from the people we love as it is inspired by the urgent need to overcome them. 14964318 $12.99 AVAILABLE MAY 6
Band’s first new studio album in five years.
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II Roadrunner Records Coheed and Cambria welcome listeners back to the Amory Wars with the second installment in their five-part musical story arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition. $12.99 14962943 AVAILABLE MAY 27
George Thorogood The Original George Thorogood Capitol Music Guest Artists: The Destroyers A collection of hard-stomping, partydown, all-original songs penned from the rock n’ roll heart of George Thorogood. Along with his unstoppable, longtime band, the Destroyers. $13.99 14928663
Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos
Sheryl Crow Sheryl
UMe The first new album from Def Leppard since their chart-topping self-titled record in 2015. It features fifteen tracks, including the anthemic, stadium-ready singles Kick and Fire It Up, with guest vocals from Alison Krauss on This Guitar and Lifeless. $13.99 14969981
A&M Music The two-CD companion piece to Sheryl Crow’s forthcoming feature documentary, Sheryl, featuring 35 songs spanning three decades of music from the nine-time Grammy Award winner. $19.99 14955664 AVAILABLE MAY 6
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The Linda Lindas Growing Up
Rammstein Zeit
Epitaph A product of generations of underground music in LA and beyond, the Linda Lindas’ debut album channels classic punk, post punk, power pop, new wave, and other surprises into timelessly catchy and cool songs. 14936225 $11.99
Virgin Records Rammstein, one of rock’s most individual and successful names, returns with a new album. The latest from the Grammynominated group includes the single Zeit, which means ‘time’ in English. 14955666 $15.99
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Country & Folk Grant-Lee Phillips All That You Can Dream Yep Roc Records A turbulent and highly musical rumination that finds the veteran singer-songwriter addressing the strange fragility of life. The collection of songs bears the markings of his prolific output. 14907928 $15.99 AVAILABLE MAY 20
Gord Bamford Diamonds in a Whiskey Glass Anthem Entertainment LP Guest Artists: Terri Clark, Jess Moskaluke Gord Bamford is one of the most decorated artists in Canadian country music, with an impressive 26 Canadian Country Music Association Awards and beyond. This deluxe edition of his tenth album features seven additional tracks. 14962931 $9.99 DELUXE EDITION
Midland The Last Resort
Includes the single The Last Resort.
Big Machine Midland likes their music straight-up. Hardcore country, the kind found in forgotten bars in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, wherever the neon’s buzzing, but not quite dead. 14955665 $11.99 AVAILABLE MAY 6
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Lola Kirk Lady for Sale
Caroline Spence True North
Third Man Records The sophomore album from Lola Kirke showcases her un-self-conscious, country-twinged vocals alongside a brightly colored candy shop of glamtwang guitar riffs and swooping, lilting, unabashedly feminine background vocals. $12.99 14967584
Rounder The fourth album from Caroline Spence showcases her refusal to exalt or commodify her own experience, and instead reaches for a far more magnanimous exploration of grief, growth, and the complexities of human nature. 14962958 $14.99
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway Crooked Tree
Leyla McCalla Breaking the Thermometer
Nonesuch Guest Artists: Margo Price, Billy Strings Features collaborations with Sierra Hall, Old Crow Medicine Show, Margo Price, Billy Strings, Dan Tyminski, and Gillian Welch. The album explores Molly Tuttle’s lifelong love of bluegrass. 14853267 $12.99
Anti An alumna of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present. She has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience. 14936221 $11.99 AVAILABLE MAY 6
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