New Religion (Bebe Rexha and Faithless song)

After the management team changed in December 2025 and her music deal with Warner Music Group concluded in January 2026,^[2][3] Bebe Rexha announced a new music project by signing with Empire Distribution.^[4]

The song follows the promotional releases "I Like You Better than Me" and "Çike Çike", which were released in February 2026.^[5] "New Religion" was the third from her upcoming studio album Dirty Blonde, following popular demand from fans who "helped shape" the track.^[6] It also follows a previous collaboration between Rexha and Faithless, "Dollars and Dimes" from the latter's 2025 record Champion Sound.

Upon its release, she expressed gratitude to Faithless for allowing her to use elements from their original song. Rexha also expressed excitement about presenting it to audiences around the world, performing it live and hearing it "at festivals, in clubs, at parties, on the radio".^[7]

"New Religion" heavily builds on the Faithless song "Insomnia" (1995) and incorporates elements of its original production.^[8] Rexha stated that the song is about "letting go and getting lost in the music" and was intended to be "a love letter to music itself" and its power to rescue people from dark places: "when the bass hits, you feel it in your chest and suddenly you feel alive again".^[9]

In the United Kingdom, "New Religion" peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Rexha's highest charting single since "I'm Good (Blue)" (2022).^[10] The song also entered the charts in several European countries, peaking at number 19 in Germany, number 39 in Austria, number 41 in Switzerland, number 62 in Ireland, number 68 in France, number 99 in the Netherlands, and number 8 and 18, respectively, in the Wallonia and Flanders regions of Belgium.

In the United States, "New Religion" debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart, with 2.1 million streams. That same week, the song debuted at number 39 on the Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart,^[11] and eventually, it topped the chart on the week of May 9, becoming Rexha's fourth and Faithless' first number-one single.^[12]

The officail song visual was published on Rexha's official YouTube channel on March 6, 2026.^[13]

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