Fans Choose Melanie Martinez’s ‘HADES’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music

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...