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Noah Kahan's The Great Divide Is Big Enough to Get Lost In

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  Twenty-one songs, ninety-six minutes, a fiddle, a banjo, a hurdy-gurdy and Aaron Dessner — what the expanded edition of Noah Kahan's fourth album actually is. Noah Kahan · The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs 24 April 2026 · Mercury Records Ninety-six minutes. That is the first thing worth knowing about The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs , and for a lot of listeners it will also be the deciding thing. This is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on Mercury Records, and this particular version is the expanded one: the original record plus four extra songs slotted into the running order, for twenty-one tracks in total. What this actually is The album proper came out on 24 April 2026. Apple Music lists the expanded collection at 25 April, and the four added songs are the ones that carry that later date — tracked in at positions five, seven, nineteen and twenty as "Lighthouse", "Staying Still", "A Few Of Your Own" and "Orbiter...

DDG's HIT-A-THON Is a Relay, Not a Marathon

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  DDG's HIT-A-THON fills forty minutes with fifteen songs, hands eleven of them to guests, and allows exactly one track past four minutes. Fifteen Songs, Eighteen Other Names DDG's HIT-A-THON arrived on September 25, 2026, released by DDG Entertainment Inc. under exclusive license to Epic Records. The listing runs fifteen songs, and Apple's own line for it reads "15 songs, 40 minutes." Add the runtimes exactly as the page prints them and you get 40:08 — one rounded second at a time, close enough to the stated figure that there is nothing to argue about. The average track runs just over two minutes forty. The title promises a marathon. The credits describe a relay. Eleven of the fifteen songs carry at least one guest, and eighteen names besides DDG's appear across them — enough that a single track's billing reads "DDG, 42 Dugg, pluto, Bankroll Ni, SMJ." That is the shape of the record: a project named for endurance, built mostly out of other peop...

Tinashe's Popstar Refuses to Sit Still, and That's the Point

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  Tinashe's eighth album folds sixteen songs into thirty-nine minutes and makes brevity into a thesis, though not every fragment earns its place. Sixteen Songs, Thirty-Nine Minutes Tinashe's eighth album, Popstar , arrived on September 25, 2026, released by A Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records. The listing runs sixteen songs and thirty-nine minutes of track time — thirty-nine twenty-three if you add up the runtimes as the page prints them, one rounded second at a time. The average song is two minutes twenty-eight seconds. Only four tracks cross the three-minute line, and nothing on the record reaches four. A tracklist is a floor plan, not the building — but this one is loud about what it wants, and the argument is legible before the first note: a pop star's album doesn't have to be a monument. It can be a run of short visits. The Clocks Are Doing the Arguing The four tracks that pass three minutes are "Melatonin" (3:42), "I'd Rather Be A...