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Coco Jones Sings Through Every Season of Love on New Single ‘Love Me Through’

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55 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

Coco Jones has turned the happiest chapter of her life into her newest record. The Grammy-winning singer released “Love Me Through” on October 9, 2026, through High Standardz and Def Jam Recordings, a romantic single about the work of loving someone without conditions, through the highs and the lows alike. Built on a melodic R&B arrangement, the song asks for acceptance without demanding perfection, and Jones delivers it in the airy, expressive vocal style that has become her calling card.

The release is as personal as anything she has put out. Its accompanying visualizer weaves in intimate footage from her recent wedding to NBA star Donovan Mitchell, tying the song’s message of commitment directly to the new chapter she is living. “Love Me Through” is her first release since the wedding, following a run of 2026 singles that includes “LUVAGIRL” and “Body So Tea,” and it continues the momentum of her 2025 debut album Why Not More?, which reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and earned her a 2026 Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album.

Jones has not limited herself to R&B this month, either. One day before her single arrived, she stepped into one of gaming’s biggest spotlights as the voice of Senna on “Know My Name,” the official anthem of the 2026 League of Legends World Championship. Released October 8 by Riot Games’ virtual hip-hop group True Damage, the track pairs Jones with SOYEON of i-dle as Akali, Vic Mensa as Ekko and Sofía Reyes as Qiyana. It is True Damage’s first release since 2019’s “GIANTS,” and Jones and her castmates are set to perform it at the Worlds opening ceremony on November 14 at Barclays Center in New York.

Taken together, the two releases show an artist widening her stage in every direction at once: a wedding, a deeply personal single and a voice role in a global esports anthem, all inside a single week of October. Where her debut album announced her as R&B’s next leading lady, this run positions Jones as something bigger, a singer whose voice travels comfortably from the altar to the arena.

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Fridayy Is Stealing Arena Nights on Rod Wave’s Don’t Look Down Tour, and Atlanta Gets Two in November

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19 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

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Fridayy is spending his fall the way rising stars are supposed to: in arenas, night after night, winning over crowds that did not buy a ticket for him. The three-time Grammy-nominated singer is out as a featured support act on Rod Wave’s Don’t Look Down Tour, and the run has already produced one of the season’s full-circle moments. At Brooklyn’s Barclays Center this week, where he played back-to-back nights on October 27 and 28, Fridayy brought out Meek Mill during his set, returning a favor years in the making for the rapper featured on his own “Proud Of Me.”

The tour now rolls into the Midwest, with two nights at Chicago’s United Center on October 31 and November 1, followed by Charlotte on November 3, Columbia, South Carolina on November 6, and a two-night Orlando stand on November 9 and 10. After a pair of Sunrise, Florida dates on November 14 and 15, the show reaches the city We Speak Media calls home, landing at State Farm Arena in Atlanta for two nights, November 18 and 19. Atlanta crowds pride themselves on knowing an R&B voice before the rest of the country does, and Fridayy’s church-rooted, melody-first sound is built for exactly that kind of room.

The voice is familiar even to casual listeners. Fridayy’s soaring hook work on DJ Khaled’s 2022 hit “God Did,” alongside Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z and John Legend, carried him into the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy nominations, and his platinum-certified solo single “When It Comes To You” proved he could carry a record entirely on his own.

His catalog on Def Jam Recordings has kept deepening since, from his self-titled 2023 debut to the 21-track double album Some Days I’m Good, Some Days I’m Not, a project shaped in part by the loss of his father while he was out on a world tour, and his current album Tension. It is the kind of catalog that rewards a full arena set rather than a quick opening slot.

That is what makes this tour pairing work. Rod Wave’s audience shows up ready to feel something, and Fridayy, who learned music in church and behind a piano before he ever saw a stage this size, meets them there. By the time the Don’t Look Down Tour reaches Atlanta in November, expect the support act to be received like a headliner.