Charli XCX Drops 3 B-Sides on iTunes, Pairing Each With a Black-and-White Video

Q: How did intense fan pressure force Charli XCX to break her own conceptual rules for her second 2026 album?

Intense fan demand pushed Charli XCX to abandon her own rule that the *Music, Fashion, Film* B-sides should stay outside the main digital ecosystem. In her Instagram note, Charli said she made the extra songs as “adjacent” companions to earlier album tracks—pieces that belonged alongside the project but were “not entirely part of it.” Because of that concept, she felt strongly that putting them on streaming services would be “counter intuitive” to the ethos of the songs. That stance changed because fans kept asking for access. Charli acknowledged that some of the B-sides had already become fan favorites and said she “begrudgingly” put them on iTunes because listeners “really wanted them.” She even joked that people could call her a hypocrite, signaling that she knew the move broke the rules she had set for the project. The three songs released were “I Keep on Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” “Playboy Bunny,” and “If You Take Away the Music Then What Has She Got?” Each arrived with a matching black-and-white video in the album’s visual style. Reports also indicate the tracks had initially existed as more exclusive material, including vinyl-only bonuses, before fan pressure helped bring them to a wider paid digital release. So the pressure did not change the album’s concept itself; it forced Charli to make a practical exception to it, moving the B-sides from intentionally limited status to an iTunes release.

3 articles · Updated · Pitchfork · Jul 26

Three days after releasing Music, Fashion, Film, Charli XCX put out three B-sides exclusively on iTunes: “I Keep on Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” “Playboy Bunny,” and “If You Take Away the Music Then What Has She Got?”
Each track arrived with a black-and-white video that matches the album’s visual style, extending the project rather than folding the songs into the main LP.
On private Instagram, Charli said she made the songs as counterparts to pre-release singles and had resisted streaming because it clashed with their ethos, but relented after fan demand.
Music, Fashion, Film is her second full-length album of 2026 after the Wuthering Heights soundtrack, and she begins a short arena tour next month with festival stops including Lollapalooza and Outside Lands.