The first week of November 2026 has already filled your queue: a jazz-trained Osaka band’s debut album, a Christmas single from Olivia Rodrigo, a flirty new Jack Harlow track and a fresh season of Call of Duty. This guide is for Singapore readers who want a soundtrack for the MRT ride home, a festive playlist for the office pantry or a new map to drop into with the squad this weekend, so here’s what’s out and which one deserves your evening first.
| What | When | Where | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| luv’s Debut Comes First | Out 4 November | — | — |
| A Mirrorball Music Video | Out 4 November | YouTube | — |
| Olivia Rodrigo Goes Christmas | Out now | — | — |
| Jack Harlow’s Smooth Talk | Released in the week of 6 November | — | — |
| Call of Duty Season 1 | Live since 6 November | — | — |
luv’s Debut Comes First
If you press play on one thing this month, make it wabi-sabi, the first full-length album from Osaka five-piece luv, out since 4 November via Warner Music Japan. The band mixes neo-soul, R&B, jazz and hip-hop, and their label hears Japanese City Pop running underneath it all.
What puts them at the top is how fast they’ve moved. Childhood friends from Kansai University’s Jazz Study Club formed luv in 2023. Since then they’ve played SXSW 2025 (South by Southwest, the music festival in Austin, Texas) as part of its International Nights programme, made their first Summer Sonic appearance in Japan in 2026, and sold out headline shows in Taiwan and Korea, so the band’s following in Asia has grown well past their hometown. A 2026 Japan Music Awards nomination for Best New Artist followed, which is a lot of ground to cover in three years!
The album runs 13 tracks and follows someone struggling to work out love, told through thoughts that play like fragments of an inner monologue caught on tape. Its title comes from the Japanese idea of finding beauty in imperfection and in moments that pass, and the singles carry that idea in different directions. Ohaguro takes the old Japanese practice of blackening teeth and turns it into a song about beauty on your own terms. bye<3 is about leaving the band’s home region of Kansai for Tokyo, and ojigi uses the Japanese bow as a metaphor for the tangled etiquette of romance.
Bookmark Blessed, track nine, a collaboration with BOY SODA, the Australian singer and ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Award winner. The two acts met after both played this year’s Summer Sonic, then spent two days in a Tokyo studio, where BOY SODA sang lead over the band’s improvised playing and luv’s hinata miyake added backing vocals. The track has since landed on Spotify’s New Music Friday and Apple Music’s New Music Daily, so it’s the easiest door into the album for anyone who already lives on R&B playlists.
📅 Out 4 November · 🏷 Warner Music Japan · 🎧 13 tracks · 🎟 Stream on luv’s wabi-sabi page
A Mirrorball Music Video
The “watch” pick this week comes from the same band. luv released the video for easy, no way!!, the album’s second track, alongside wabi-sabi on 4 November, and it’s on YouTube. According to the band’s label, the concept is “another self reflected in the mirror”, which plays out through revolving camera angles, high-fashion styling and a dancing mirrorball character.
hinata miyake wrote both the music and the Japanese lyrics, with the arrangement credited to the whole band. If you’re the type who needs to see a band before committing to 13 tracks, this is your trailer, and the performance scenes give you a feel for the band’s live shows, which have included sold-out international headline shows in Taiwan and Korea.
📅 Out 4 November · 📍 YouTube · 🎟 Watch on luv’s YouTube channel
Olivia Rodrigo Goes Christmas
Office Christmas playlists in Singapore tend to loop the same mall carols from mid-November, so Olivia Rodrigo has arrived right on time with take me home (4 christmas). The lowercase, bracketed title is classic Rodrigo, and a leather biker jacket over a Santa hat tells you this won’t sound like the music in a department store at Orchard.
Press play here and judge it for yourself:
📅 Out now · 🎄 Holiday single · 🎟 Listen via the official link
Jack Harlow’s Smooth Talk
Jack Harlow‘s Signora is part of Warner Music’s new releases for the week of 6 November, and the whole track plays out as a conversation. A woman opens with “Boy, why you acting so coy?”, and Harlow spends the rest of it apologising and deflecting, with a line about watching Severance on her recommendation and another calling her “so Everest”.
It’s the breeziest listen here, and the confession in the second verse (there’s someone else on his mind) gives the flirting a twist that rewards sticking around to the end. Save it for a Friday-night drive along the ECP when the album-length listens feel like too much.
📅 Released in the week of 6 November · 🏷 Warner Music
Call of Duty Season 1
For the “play” part of the month, Season 1 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone went live on 6 November, which makes this the first full weekend for squads to get stuck in. It’s the opening season for this year’s game, so anyone who put down the controller after launch has a reason to log back on.
If you’re still weighing what else deserves space on your console this year, our Comebacks in Singapore 2026: Play Now, Wishlist or Wait guide sorts the returning franchises for you.
📅 Live since 6 November · 🎮 Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone · 🗓 Season 1
Where to Start
Music fans have three releases to work through: luv’s wabi-sabi and its easy, no way!! video for a full evening with headphones, Olivia Rodrigo’s take me home (4 christmas) for the festive queue and Jack Harlow’s Signora when you want something light. Gamers have one job this weekend, and that’s Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone.
If you only have one night, give it to wabi-sabi. It comes from a band that went from a university jazz club to SXSW in about two years, and starting with Blessed before watching the mirrorball video shows exactly why their shows in Taiwan and Korea sold out. Pull up wabi-sabi on luv’s streaming page tonight, and if the Christmas mood has already hit, our Holiday Gift Guide 2026 pairs nicely with Olivia Rodrigo on repeat!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Warner Music Japan, Universal Music and Lizzie Klein.
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