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PHOTOGRAPHER: GEMMA WARREN

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2023 was a standout year for global superstar Laufey with her album Bewitched catapulting through the charts, debuting at #2 on Spotify’s Global, sitting at #1 on the ARIA Jazz & Blues Album Charts for 25 consecutive weeks, as well as #23 on the Billboard 200,  #1 on Billboard’s Independent Albums Chart, and  #1 on Current Traditional Jazz Albums Chart. It also marked the biggest debut for a jazz album in Spotify history, with the album’s hit single “From The Start” officially RIAA-certified Gold.

Today the GRAMMY®-winning Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has announced brand-new music with forthcoming release of Bewitched: The Goddess Edition, out Friday April 26 via AWAL.

The expanded edition features four brand-new original songs that Laufey wrote in the wake of finishing her 2023 critically celebrated album Bewitched. Laufey has revealed lead single ‘Goddess’ out today via AWAL

LISTEN TO SINGLE HERE

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Of the new single, Laufey notes, “Goddess is my most honest song yet. I wrote it alone at my piano after feeling like someone had fallen in love with the version of me they’d seen on stage, just to find that I wasn’t what they projected once I was off stage. They deemed me to no longer be a shiny thing when the glamor wore off, reduced to skin and bone.”

Last month, Laufey won the 2024 GRAMMY® for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.” She also performed “From The Start” at the award show’s Premiere Ceremony and played cello alongside Billy Joel during the performance of his new single “Turn The Lights Back On” during the telecast.

The break-out artist has received massive support, with her hit single ‘From The Start’ being added to triple j rotation, coming in at #121 for triple j’s Hottest 100, as well as consistently landing in the Top 50 Most Played at the station. The single has also landed in the Top 200 Shazam Charts while her debut Australian shows in 2023 sold-out in minutes prior to releasing her Bewitched album. 

Laufey is currently in the midst of the European leg of her sold-out “Bewitched: The Goddess Tour.” The entirely sold out North American dates will kick off in April and include an anticipated performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic.

Los Angeles-based Laufey (pronounced lāy-vāy) was raised between Reykjavík and Washington, D.C. with annual visits to Beijing. In 2020, while still a student at Berklee College of Music, Laufey released her debut single “Street by Street,” which went on to top the Icelandic radio charts. In 2022, she released her debut full-length, Everything I Know About Love, which reached #1 on Billboard’s Alternative New Artist Album chart, featuring the popular track “Valentine” that peaked at #1 on the Spotify Jazz Chart. Today, she has over 1.7 billion streams across all platforms and is the biggest streaming artist from Iceland in the world.

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LISTEN TO ‘GODDESS’ SINGLE HERE

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