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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Laidback Luke, David Guetta & Sia and More

The best new dance songs of the week from Laidback Luke, David Guetta and Sia, Franc Moody, Skream and Partiboi 69 and Helang.

This week in dance music: SiriusXM launched a new in-app channel curated by Tomorrowland, LP Giobbi’s Femme House launched the inaugural Femmy Awards happening later this month in Miami, HARD Summer announced its 2025 lineup, the deadmau5 catalog was acquired by Create Music Group for $55 million, Boys Noize was announced as the opener for Nine Inch Nails’ Peel It Back tour, Calvin Harris teased a new country-oriented song, Diplo’s run club expanded to six new cities for 2025 and 2026, Chicago ghetto house legend DJ Funk passed away at age 54, Diplo and Poolside will play a newly announced L.A. wildfires benefit show, we caught up with John Summit in Miami for Billboard ‘s latest cover story, and we had a long talk with Tokimonsta about her excellent new album, Eternal Reverie. The latest from the pair — whose prior hits together include “Titanium,” “Flames” and “Bang My Head” — is “Beautiful People,” a track that falls squarely into the dark, urgent and oversized “future rave” genre the French producer has been proselytizing about over the last few years. The title, the guys say, “felt apt as a name, as it took us a lot of discourse and trial and error to find our groove with the songs and sound” — although they add that their creative verve was rejuvenated after seeing performances by LCD Soundsystem and Massive Attack, shows that reminded them that a fundamental piece of most any group’s puzzle is attitude.

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