The end of the year is coming. We’re in the middle of November and new Christmas recordings are starting to pop up, so it’s now time to start thinking about music fans’ favorite annual tradition: Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s round-up of users’ listening habits.
The big issue with Spotify Wrapped is that it’s hard to know exactly when it’s coming, since there’s no set “Spotify Wrapped Day” that’s unchanging year-by-year. So, as far as when the 2026 edition will premiere, we don’t yet know. But, based on past years, we can come up with a strong estimate.
These are the dates Wrapped has dropped over the past few years:
2018: December 6
2019: December 5
2020: December 1
2021: December 1
2022: November 30
2023: November 29
2024: December 4
So, expect Wrapped 2026 to arrive in late November or early December.
For those who don’t want to wait, Spotify recently rolled out a new feature: Earlier this month, they announced listening stats. As their announcement post explains, “Available to Free and Premium users in more than 60 markets worldwide, this new feature shows your top artists and songs from the past four weeks, and it serves up playlists inspired by what you love or tracks you might want to queue up next. Each week, it also includes a special highlight that captures what makes your listening unique, whether it’s a milestone, a new discovery, or a fan moment.”
Klay Thompson is standing up for his lady Megan Thee Stallion after she was blamed for his on court slump. Despite being a four-time NBA champion and the current record-holder for most points in a quarter (37!), Klay’s current production has paled in comparison to his prime. He’s currently averaging just 8.5 points a game for the Dallas Mavericks, playing the lowest minutes since his rookie season for the Golden State Warriors (2011–12).
On a recent podcast, former NBA star Jason Williams (White Chocolate!) attributed his athletic woes to his domestic bliss, crassly saying it “only takes one p**** to drag a battleship across the desert … That’s how powerful it is.” He also directed commentary directly at Klay by name, remarking, “Klay Thompson, I ain’t sayin’ that’s what it is… but that might be what it is.”
After the social media admins for Williams’ podcast shared the clip on Instagram, Thompson himself chimed in in the comments section, writing, “Referring to my GF as a ‘p—y’ is so disgusting and disturbing. Especially from someone who played in the NBA. How would yall feel if I referred to your wives in such a way ? Do better fellas. Very disappointing.”
Klay and Meg first went public with their relationship in the summertime, and when he was asked about her on the red carpet of her foundation’s gala, he called her a “sweet lady” as he showed off a watch she’d given him.
As for the real reason that Thompson hasn’t been playing as well; you can probably attribute that to age and injury, as well as being on a new team that is playing through its fair share of behind-the-scenes turmoil (Nico Harrison). In Game 6 of the 2019 Finals against the Toronto Raptors, Thompson tore his ACL, and missed the entire 2020–21 season due to a torn Achilles.
It was previously known that Charli XCX was writing some music for the upcoming Wuthering Heights movie. It turns out her involvement runs deeper than just a few songs, though, as today (November 13), Charli announced an entire Wuthering Heights album, set for February 13, 2026.
She also shared a new song, “Chains Of Love.” A number of comments on the YouTube upload are from fans comparing the song to Charli’s 2013 debut album True Romance.
Meanwhile, Charli just launched a Substack newsletter and in her first post, she explained how she got involved with the movie, writing, “In early December 2024 I got a text from an unknown number that turned out to be Emerald Fennell. […] I began to sink into this reimagined world of Wuthering Heights and I suddenly began to feel… inspired. I was immersing myself in a story that was not my own, a story that was steeped in history, a story that had existed since 1847 (tysm Emily Brontë). I was purely a voyeur and I was enjoying being one. The language of this world felt so opposite from the world I had been inhabiting for the past 2 and a half years. I began to feel a sense of freedom again.”
She continued:
“I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script. She coyly suggested ‘A song?’ and I suggested ‘An album?’ because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living. I was f*cking IN.”
Listen to “Chains Of Love” above.
Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights Album Cover Artwork
Atlantic
Wuthering Heights is out 2/13/2026 via Atlantic Records. Find more information here.
Charli XCX is on Substack now! Charli gets vulnerable in the inaugural post she shared yesterday, revealing that she was getting a bit tired of Brat towards the end of it.
Writing about how people latched onto the album and the project shifted to belonging to the public, Charli said:
“When this moment happens I normally go searching elsewhere for fulfillment. But with brat, my latest baby, people seemed to care about her more than usual. So I stuck with her and watched her grow. It was fun, don’t get me wrong, I reached new highs and new lows and both were equally important. But by the end of the process I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone, trying to get every last drop of liquid life out of an idea I had already been sat with for years prior. I still love her, don’t get me wrong but I was itching to move on and was simultaneously frustrated that I was so depleted that I couldn’t. I was stuck, I was empty, I was barren, I was running on the spot in a different kind of way. I couldn’t really even listen to music without feeling depressed. Everything felt monotonous and boring, even if it wasn’t.”
She also said she’s more excited by her movie work at the moment, writing, “As some of you may know I’m currently feeling more inspired by film than I am by music. Film is where my creative brain seems to be gravitating. I’m enjoying acting, I’m enjoying writing, I’m enjoying watching and I’m above all enjoying discovering a new craft. Those things feel really enriching and instinctual to me at the moment but also music is a limb I will probably never fully be able to cut from my body despite trying quite hard to do so at points.”
After that, though, he shifted gears, instead carving out a career in more of a background role, as a songwriter. Over the past decade, he was at least partially responsible for a lot of songs you’ve probably heard of: Adele’s “When We Were Young” and Niall Horan’s “Slow Hands” are a couple examples, while he also all over projects like Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism, Dijon’s Baby, and Justin Bieber’s two Swag albums.
Now, with years of high-level songwriting under his belt, Jesso is giving his career as a primary artist another shot. Today (November 13), Jesso announced a new album, Shine (stylized as s h i n e. He also shared a video for “I Love You,” which arrives with a video featuring Dakota Johnson and Riley Keough.
Meanwhile, at the 2026 Grammys, Jesso is nominated for Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical. This comes after he won the award in 2023, the first time it was ever handed out.
Over nearly three decades with Gorillaz, Damon Albarn has had the opportunity to work with a bunch of music icons. One of the ones that got away, though, was David Bowie.
In a new Radio X interview, Albarn said, “I nearly made a record with Ray Davis and David Bowie back in the late ’90s. That didn’t happen.”
They also discussed getting in the studio with Dionne Warwick but that ultimately not going anywhere. Jamie Hewlett said, “She was in the studio on the piano with Damon saying, ‘I’m not sure about the name of this album Demon Days. Why have you called it Demon Days?’” Albarn added, “I think she just found some of the lyrics and sort of some of the ideas a bit problematic. But an amazing, amazing person nonetheless.”
Albarn also discussed some favorite collaborators, saying, “De La Soul, obviously. Probably very, very important to us just as friends and pre-Gorillaz as an inspiration, you know? They’re really, really important; important to just the history of music, really. People like Bobby Womack, who I went on to make a record with. Just sitting at the piano with Bobby Womack working out new songs, kind of an incredible experience, a voice.”
The United Society Of Believers In Christ’s Second Appearing, a Christian sect better known as the Shakers, has quite the story. Today, they exist as a historical relic, as a mere three members remain as of 2025. Their past, though, is cinematic enough to get the movie treatment in the upcoming The Testament Of Ann Lee.
The film focuses on Ann Lee, one of the religious movement’s founders, and the story of her vision for the church. Amanda Seyfried stars, as do Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, and more.
Ahead of the movie’s release, keep reading for everything you need to know before it hits theaters.
Plot
An official description reads, “From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker’s irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament Of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg.”
“Very recently, a third Shaker joined, and no one has joined [since 1978]. It’s quite extraordinary that a third joined, but no, I didn’t want to consult them because my interpretation of this story is probably quite different from theirs. I’ve taken creative liberties. I’ve merged characters. I’ve imagined things. My reason for telling the story is different probably from their reason to be part of this religion. I thought it was more respectful to let them have their relationship and me have mine.”
Cast
The movie stars Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson, Stacy Martin, Scott Handy, Matthew Beard, Viola Prettejohn, Jamie Bogyo, and David Cale.
Seyfried spoke with The Wrap about the challenges this role presented, saying:
“Getting over my own insecurities with playing somebody who had so much power and felt so strong-willed and someone so committed and someone so devoted. That’s it. That’s not me. But there’s so many qualities about her I could relate to.
In terms of what I couldn’t relate to, the accent, the technical aspect of the accent. I had to let go of my own ear when I’m listening to my own singing because it didn’t need to sound good, it just needed to sound devoted. Just needed to sound true, which is a different way of singing. […] It was just a lot. Choreography is like math to me; I don’t get it. So I had to work extra hard on that. Everything was hard about it. Everything.”
In recent years, Robyn has popped up on new songs here and there, like that Jamie xx collaboration or Charli XCX’s “360” remix, both from last year. As far as her own new songs, though, there haven’t been any since the release of her 2018 album Honey.
She appears to be launching a new era, though, as today (November 12), she has shared a new one, “Dopamine,” a catchy dance-pop number that arrives alongside a video. In a statement, Robyn says of the song:
“Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies. It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing — which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of Dopamine is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body — and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”
A press release doesn’t indicate if a new album is coming, but it does note that the song follows a “recent run of public appearances that have created huge anticipation and speculation around new Robyn music.”
With winter coming just weeks away, who is better to help Cardi B bring in the snowy season than The Snowman? The Bronx bombshell’s Am I The Drama? standout “ErrTime” already includes one Atlanta trap star in Latto, and today, Cardi released a remix swapping in one of the godfathers of Atlanta trap, Jeezy.
The new version of the song (dubbed a “Snow Mix”) finds Jeezy opening the song with a brand-new verse before sprinkling his signature ad-libs all over the chorus. “Slow and smooth ass criminal, Teddy P, Easy E / Got that billionaire status, Robert Smith, Gary Vee / How you like it? Bad and bougie, Halle Berry, Cardi B / Drought seasons, know we cuttin’, red alert, Kid Capri.”
Jeezy broke his two-year hiatus since departing Def Jam in 2023 earlier this year with a Gangsta Grillz mixtape, Still Snowin’. The project was noted by fans for departing from Jeezy’s usual trap-style beats for soul samples, so his appearance on “ErrTime” will no doubt be welcomed for bringing him back to his roots.
The ultimate compliment an artist can pay to the Uproxx Sound Check challenge is “diabolical.” That’s how Wale describes it in our latest installment, as the recent Def Jam signee faces down one of our most wide-ranging sets of song choices yet.
Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.
This time around, Wale — who has frequently talked about his inspirations in the past — has to choose between two of his biggest influences in Jay-Z and Black Thought, chooses a pre-game anthem between Camp Lo and Young Dro, and has to pick a favorite peer between Drake and J. Cole.
Watch Wale take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.
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