Westside Cowboy, Jazzy and Sam Smith lead our Hot New Songs playlist
This week's playlist update also sees new music added from Bonobo ft. Joy Crookes, The Mary Wallopers, Brooke Combe and more
New music is great, but it’s increasingly hard to find your latest obsession when approximately 840,000 songs land on streaming services every week. So that’s where we come in. Every Friday, the team at Rolling Stone UK will update our Hot New Songs playlist with the stuff that we think you should be getting your ears around this week from the UK and Ireland. Simple.
This week, we’ve highlighted the latest preview of the debut album from Westside Cowboy, an ode to home from Dublin’s Jazzy, a new one from Sam Smith and a collaboration between Bonobo and Joy Crookes among many others.
Listen to the playlist below and follow us on Spotify here.
Rolling Stone UK’s picks for August 7, 2026:
Westside Cowboy – ‘Dobro’
Jazzy – ‘My People’
Sam Smith – ‘When He’s Gone’
Brooke Combe – ‘Love Was Made of Stone’
The Mary Wallopers – ‘Kit Kat Club’
Bonobo and Joy Crookes – ‘Always on Your Side’
The Big Moon – ‘Fun’
James Ellis Ford – ‘The Ever After’
Florence Road – ‘7563’
Aaron Rowe – ‘Hollywood Sign’