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, it’s all about collabs — between two alums from blockbuster megapop groups, a couple veteran indie favorites, and a pair of genre-crossing TDE s–t-talkers — as well as a couple longtime hitmakers still going it solo.

JISOO with ZAYN, “Eyes Closed”

If pop groups stocked with breakout solo stars is your thing, you’re undoubtedly very excited about the arrival of “Eyes Closed,” a meeting of BLACKPINK and One Direction alums. JISOO and ZAYN team up here for an emotional, tender ballad with pulsing synths and booming drums — not dissimilar from mid-’10s ZAYN duets “I

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