Laufey‘s new album ‘Bewitched’ has damaged quite a few information because it was launched final month.
The album broke a file on Spotify, recording the most important first day for a jazz album on the streamer in historical past.
It additionally debuted at Quantity 23 on the all-genre Billboard 200, marking Laufey’s first look on the chart, and remains to be comfortably sitting within the prime 100 nearly a month on from launch.
The album’s lead single ‘From The Begin’ additionally proved massively profitable, clocking up 1 million streams in lower than 24 hours upon launch and gaining an additional 1.75million streams a day since. With that, it has turn out to be, at the moment, the most-streamed jazz music on the earth.
Talking to NME The Cowl earlier this yr, Laufey defined why she was drawn to discover concepts about love, relationships and romanticising one’s personal life on the album.
““I believe love makes everybody actually foolish,” Laufey says. “I bear in mind the primary time I went on a date, we had a glass of wine and we kissed after which I left within the rain, and I bear in mind pondering, ‘Oh my god, it’s actually like the films!’”
In a five-star evaluate of ‘Bewitched’, NME wrote: “Claiming area together with her tackle the music of classical legends of years passed by blended with one thing extra trendy, up on that stage is the place Laufey’s destined to be.”
Laufey is about to tour the UK and Europe in 2024. Tickets for the UK reveals may be discovered right here, whereas ticketing for dates in different international locations may be accessed right here.
FEBRUARY
Saturday 10 – Dublin, The Academy
Monday 12 – Glasgow, Saint Luke’s
Wednesday 14 – Manchester, Albert Corridor
Thursday 15, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 – London, EartH
Tuesday 20 – Paris, Le Trabendo
Wednesday 21 – Brussels, La Madeleine
Friday 23 – Hamburg, Gruenspan
Monday 26 – Copenhagen, Vega
Tuesday 27 – Berlin, Heimathafen Neukolin
Thursday 29 – Milan, Magazzini Generali
MARCH
Sunday 3 – Lausanne, Les Docks
Tuesday 5 – Cologne, Bürgerhaus Stoilwerck
Wednesday 6 – Amsterdam, Melkweg
Saturday 9 – Reykjavík, Eldborg Live performance Corridor
