1 week Ago By Ashley Iasimone
Zayn ‘s Room Under the Stairs tops this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (May 17) on Billboard , choosing the pop star’s latest album as their favorite new music release of the past week. The former One Direction singer’s latest studio album brought in more than 47% of the vote, topping Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft by only 3%.
In a week full of fresh tunes across pop, country and hip-hop, poll voters selected Room Under the Stairs over new music releases by Eilish, Saweetie, Luke Combs and A Boogie With da Hoodie. Recorded at Zayn’s home in rural Pennsylvania and produced by Dave Cobb, Room Under the Stairs is the singer’s fourth solo album and the follow-up to 2021’s Nobody Is Listening . With a shift from pop to R&B mixed with country-rock influence, Zayn’s rootsy new set is led by single “What I Am.
” “I haven’t got a name for the genre,” Zayn said in a recent interview with Zach Sang. “It’s just me,” he noted. “There’s no specific, strategic plan behind it .
.. It’s just expression.
Whatever came out, came out,” he added. Of today’s sound, Zayn told Nylon , “People are in search of a little bit more depth from the lyrics. In the Top 40 charts, a lot of mainstream music feels a bit wishy-washy.
The songs are f—ing fire. You know what I mean? They’re catchy. They’re playing on the radio and they do their job, but people are looking for a little bit more.
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