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, Doja Cat travels in time, Young Thug makes up for lost time and Mariah Carey remains timeless. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Doja Cat, Vie

If you loved the pop fantasia at the heart of Planet Her more than the hard-charging rhymes of Scarlet, Vie, Doja Cat’s fifth studio album, will sound like an exciting return to form: translating her aesthetic to a synth-heavy 1980s pastiche and tapping Jack Antonoff to help render her vision, Doja sounds in top form with these widescreen hooks, with “Cards,” “Gorgeous” and “AAAHH MEN!” all begging to be played at

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