MUNA‘s new album Dancing on the Wall tops this week’s best new music poll.
Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (May 8) on Billboard, choosing the LA indie-pop trio’s new record as their favorite music release of the week.
Dancing on the Wall rose to the top in a week that also featured Charli xcx‘s hotly anticipated genre-pivot single “Rock Music,” new full-lengths from J Balvin and Ryan Castro, Lykke Li, Little Simz and The Chainsmokers, plus new singles from The Last Dinner Party, PJ Morton, Ashley McBryde and more.
The win marks a significant moment for MUNA, the trio of Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson and Josette Maskin, who return with their third studio album on Saddest Factory Records — their first release since their breakout 2022 self-titled record. That album broke through to mainstream audiences on the strength of the Phoebe Bridgers collaboration “Silk Chiffon” and earned widespread critical acclaim. Dancing on the Wall finds the band continuing to evolve their signature brand of euphoric, emotionally direct indie pop, with the title track arriving as one of the year’s most immediate and danceable releases so far.
Meanwhile, the second-place finisher Charli xcx’s “Rock Music” marked a deliberate departure from the Brat-era sound that defined her 2024 commercial breakthrough.
“If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” she told British Vogue in April. ahead of the single’s release. “What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.” The single arrives ahead of a still-unannounced new album.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
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