HADES, the new album from Melanie Martinez, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.
Fans voted in a poll published Friday (March 27) on Billboard, choosing the alt-pop artist’s latest LP as their favorite new release of the week.
HADES leads the pack in a week that also saw new music releases streaming in from Conan Gray, RAYE, Charlie Puth, Miley Cyrus and more. At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, Martinez finished with 67% of the vote.
HADES was previewed by singles including “Possession” and “Disney Princess” ahead of its March 27 release.
In London, Martinez recently held a staged “Listening Chamber” event (directed by NIYADRE and produced by Bad Bones Films’ Laurence Warder and Daragh McCann) for the album; watch it in full in the video above.
“I started this album thinking I was writing a futuristic dystopia,” Martinez said in a statement about HADES, her fourth full-length studio album, upon its release via Warner Music this week. “But I realized I was just documenting the world we’re already living in. HADES is a cracked mirror. Beneath the rage, it’s a refusal to go numb – a call to feel, to see clearly, and to ask if we can still create something beautiful from the chaos we’ve been given.”
The 18-track collection is the follow-up to 2023’s Portals, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Among the new releases trailing behind HADES are Conan Gray’s “The Best,” with 20% of the vote, and RAYE’s This Music May Contain Hope, with 7% of the vote. Charlie Puth and Miley Cyrus rounded out the results, placing in fourth and fifth.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
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