16 July 2025
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.
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Twelfth album and first on seven years from Columbian-born pop star featuring collaborations with Cardi B, Bizarrap, Rauw Alejandro, Grupo Frontera, Ozuna, Karol G, Fuerza Regida and Tiësto
6.6
A great two-for-one set that is essentially a short new album and a de facto "Greatest Hits 2022-2024" Read Review
The She Wolf is back and she is howling louder and prouder than ever Read Review
The long-awaited return from the Latin trailblazer sees her unpick her recent emotional devastation with wit and real self-awareness Read Review
Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgence Read Review
Las Mujeres is a grab-bag of pop genre fusions, yet Shakira manages to hold court in every song with her incisive and enduring songcraft Read Review
The Colombian superstar’s first Spanish-only album in 19 years is a brutally honest look at her breakup that overflows with vengeance and still-got-it sex appeal Read Review
Her first record since 2017’s El Dorado melds pulsating dance anthems with reggaeton, pop… and even a splash of grunge Read Review
Despite a hit diss track so withering it affected the stock market and enlivening turns from Cardi B and leading regional Mexican musicians, the Colombian’s wan 12th album washes out her adventurous spirit Read Review
Break-ups reoccur throughout the songs, but they lack the vim of the record’s hit single Read Review
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The UK duo’s second album is a near-reinvention, an unbridled and clear-eyed testament to their songwriting chops that hones their vision and separates them from the pack Pitchfork
Clipse Let God Sort Em Out
In the end, the album is too reverent to ever bother being interesting Slant Magazine
Reunited after 16 years, the Virginia duo are missing the killer punches that first made them icons of hip-hop NME
Pusha T and Malice reunite for their first album since 2009 on Let God Sort Em Out, and their lyrical chemistry is still second to none Rolling Stone
The duo still sounds like the mortal threat they represented in younger days, but integrates refinement, spirituality, and reflection on hard-learned lessons under that lens, communicating from a place of wisdom without losing any of their time-tested fury All Music
Across thirteen tracks, Clipse reignite their crockpot to finish what they started, backed by a sublime set of guest co-stars Clash
Yet another example of the pair’s reverence for the rap game and its possibilities Consequence Of Sound
Scathing disses, star guests, inspired Pharrell beats and great lines from chilling to laugh-out-loud: the duo’s first album since 2009 is so much more than the drama around it The Guardian
Justin Bieber Swag
On his surprise seventh album, the Canadian pop star is caught between sex, God and self-pity The Independent
SWAG is Justin Bieber’s latest quest to prove his personhood. While it’s up to us to listen, it’s ultimately up to Justin to find an approach that works in his best interests Consequence Of Sound
In the end, its sheer creativity and daring means that ‘SWAG’ (just about) justifies its breadth. 21-tracks of frequent daring, this Justin Bieber’s testimony, for better or worse Clash
The pop star’s surprise-released seventh album finds sanctuary in faith and love, with the help of a diverse group of collaborators NME
The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bit The Guardian
Pop’s youngest elder statesman continues to evolve his R&B sound by enlisting some big names from the underground. His seventh album is warm, blissful, and a little out of touch Pitchfork
On his first album in four years, the singer processes his adult reality and makes some of the most creative and wide-ranging music of his life Rolling Stone
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