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Chloe Qisha Releases Debut Mixtape Fantasize With He Likes Boys Video

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4 hours ago

November 1, 2026

Chloe Qisha performing live at Heaven in London

Chloe Qisha live at Heaven. Photo via @chloeqisha.

Chloe Qisha released her debut mixtape Fantasize on October 30, out now via Columbia in the United Kingdom and RCA in the United States. Its final single, He Likes Boys, debuted on the Apple Music show of Zane Lowe on October 26 and arrived with a music video of its own.

According to the release, the mixtape weaves funk and disco influences from across the decades while staying firmly rooted in contemporary pop. Apple Music lists Fantasize at nine tracks, opening with YDH and closing with the title track. Five earlier singles sit inside it, including YDH, Question Of The Day, Baby Girl, Surprise Surprise and So Sad So Hot, with He Likes Boys in the middle of the running order.

Fantasize is my odyssey through the last year and a half of my life, Qisha says in the release, adding that each track is like a diary entry. For all its silliness and outrageousness, this is probably the most honest I have ever been in my music, she adds. Her collaborators on the project include her longtime partner Rob Milton along with Ilya Salmanzadeh, Caroline Ailin, Oscar Görres, Steph Jones and Julia Michaels.

Of He Likes Boys, she says she has never been more afraid for a song to be out in the world, calling it possibly the realest and most honest song she has put out yet. She describes it as a sneaky half ballad and half club banger, and says the song is ultimately about unrequited love.

Fantasize is her first body of work since the 2025 EP Modern Romance, which followed her self titled debut EP of 2024. In 2026 she was longlisted for the Sound Of list of the BBC and nominated for the Rising Star Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. She marked release day with a show at Heaven in London, and she will support Holly Humberstone on a United Kingdom tour in 2027, with dates including Cardiff on January 16, Manchester on January 17, Belfast on January 19, Newcastle on January 23 and Glasgow on January 24.

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Dominic Fike Returns With Third Album How To Quit Smoking

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2 hours ago

November 1, 2026

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Dominic Fike. Photo via @dominicfike.

Dominic Fike has released his third studio album, How To Quit Smoking, out now through Columbia Records. The album arrived on October 30, 2026, and runs to 15 songs, with Apple Music filing it under Alternative. It is his first full length since Sunburn in 2023 and follows his 2020 debut, What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

The rollout leaned on a run of singles that showed the record’s range. Wallflower served as the lead single, Small Town followed, and Pangea landed late in the campaign, close to the album’s arrival. Fike announced the finished product to his followers with a simple message on release week: album out now. The title, and the hashtag he paired with it, frame the record as a document of habits confronted head on, and the songs move between guitar led confessionals and the melodic pop instincts that made him one of the most watched young artists in alternative music.

Fike was born in Naples, Florida, and broke through at the end of the last decade with a sound that refused to sit in one lane, part indie rock, part hip hop, part bedroom pop. What Could Possibly Go Wrong introduced that blend to a wide audience, and Sunburn deepened it with a more personal, hometown rooted set of songs. How To Quit Smoking now becomes the third chapter, a 15 track statement from an artist who releases albums only when he has something to say. With the record out in the world, attention turns to how Fike will take these songs to the stage, and to which of the new tracks follow Wallflower and Pangea into his live set.