| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Tori Amos | “Sin Palabras (Without Words) [MP3 Download]” (an instrumental version of “Night of Hunters,” featuring The Apollon Musagete Quartet and Berlin Philharmonic clarinet soloist Andreas Ottensamer; Hear here) | (Deutsche Grammophon, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | “Stage Whisper” (seven studio tracks and 11 live songs; producer: Beck; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Elektra, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Anthony Hamilton | “Back to Love” (producers: Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Salaam Remi, Kelvin Wooten, Hamilton; guest: Keri Hilson; first single: “Woo”; Hear here; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download) | (RCA, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| K’s Choice (Belgian indie group) | “Little Echoes” (acoustic album, featuring rearranged songs from “Echo Mountain,” two new songs and four covers, including “Cannonball” and Split Enz’s “Message to My Girl”; Hear here; See here) | (Europe – Ses Inc., Dec. 12, 2011) |
| T. Mills (Riverside, Calif., hip-pop artist) | “Leaving Home EP [MP3 Download]” (five-song EP; Hear here) | (Columbia, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Naughty By Nature | “Anthem Inc.: 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” (rap trio’s first album together since 1999; guests: Queen Latifah, Joe: first single: “Perfect Party”; Hear here; Read here) | (eOne, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Nero (U.K. dubstep group) | “Welcome Reality” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Cherrytree/Interscope, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band | “Live at The Iveagh Gardens” (21 songs; See here; MP3 Download) | (Josh Ritter, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa | “Mac & Devin Go to High School [Film soundtrack]” (straight-to-DVD movie; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Atlantic, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Various artists | “Please, Please, Please: A Tribute to the Smiths” (2-CD set featuring covers by The Wedding Present, Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, Sixpence None the Richer, Tanya Donelly, Telekinesis, William Fitzsimmons, etc.; Read here; MP3 Download) | (American Laundromat, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| Various artists | “We Bought a Zoo [Film soundtrack]” (including music by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, curated by director Cameron Crowe; movie starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson opens Dec. 23; See here; MP3 Download) | (Columbia, Dec. 13, 2011) |
| VCMG (Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore) | “EP1 / Spock [MP3 Download]” (new single, with remixes from Edit-Select, aka Tony Scott, Regis, DVS1 and XOQ; Hear here; Read here) | (Mute, Dec. 13, 2011) |
