Nicklas Sahl has in recent years released one durable song after another, and the next in the series is the single "Noise." It grew out of - as Sahl says - "a flip" he had with Mark Ronson. He tried to pair his songwriting with Ronson's organic 1970s sound, and a result is a number with significant arm movements - not least with a large female choir. Beneath the layers is a theme that revolves around drowning in noise. "When things get tough, I sometimes try to drown them out by turning up the noise around me. For example, I find the noise by going out with my friends instead of relating to these things. I have gradually learned that it always catches up with me sooner or later, but sometimes it just feels easier to try to run from it, ”says Nicklas Sahl. 'Noise' is the latest single from Nicklas Sahl's upcoming album, which will be released later this year, and where we got the first single, "Stand Out Be Special," from this autumn. Nicklas Sahl has been one of the most popular singers in Denmark in recent years. In 2018, he debuted a single with "Hero," remaining P3's Inevitable. Three of his singles have reached the top 10 on the Danish Airplay Chart, 2019 he was the second most played Danish artist on Danish radio, and his songs have been streamed more than 80 million times.

In 2020, British singer-songwriter John Newman announced he was taking a break from the music industry and that he had left his record label and his artist management company. Due to his mental health issues. The singer, songwriter, producer and DJ – who has collaborated with Rudimental, Sigala, Calvin Harris and David Guetta, and returns with a new single titled "Waiting For a Lifetime." “When you’re touring, no matter if a single’s not doing that well or there’s crap going on at home, or you don’t like yourself as a person, it’s not something you actually know,” he said. But when lockdown hit, he said he soon realized that he wasn’t happy. “When that opportunity to run and hide was taken away from me, I realized that I was actually miserable and so not happy with how my career was going,” he admitted. “I realized that I was just running at a thousand miles an hour to try and cover that up. Now, two years on from leaving his label and management and starting to go in a new direction, John is back with ‘Waiting For A Lifetime,’ a song that he says is the embodiment of “releasing the chains and making myself happy, which I realized I’d been waiting so long to be able to do.” This summer, John will be playing a string of DJ sets and creating mixes for fans online as part of his "Below The Decks" series.

Cautious Clay has announced the deluxe edition of his debut album, "Deadpan Love," out February 11th with four new songs and new versions of fan favourites. The first new track, “Rapture in Blue.” The deluxe edition expands on Cautious’ long-awaited debut album Deadpan Love, released in 2021 to widespread acclaim. The original includes the hit “Wildfire,” which was recently covered by BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ and featured in a new episode of “Gossip Girl.” Additionally, Cautious made his television debut in December, performing three tracks on “CBS This Morning.” Despite the romantic title, "Rapture In Blue" is about Cautious breaking from the safe path and throwing caution to the wind. "No, I don't wanna be safe / You're running in, running in circles around me," he sings on the chorus. "And I love it, and I hate it, I want it, I made it, I need it all / No, I don't wanna be safe." The song is also taking a few chances itself, experimenting with the genre as it takes elements from rock, gospel and R&B to get his point across. There's also a bit of jazz thrown in as well when the singer brilliantly plays his trusty sax at the song's end before it all fades away.

Breakout pop artist Zach Hood has released his first single of 2022, a characteristically catchy track called “I Miss My Friends.” Born and raised in Daphne, Alabama, Hood can remember belting out Bruno Mars from his car seat as a toddler. He taught himself how to play piano by watching – and re-watching – countless videos on YouTube. In middle school, he engaged his classmates by taking requests for acapella covers and then posting them on Instagram, tagging the requester back. Hood was hyperactively posting content on TikTok after his ex-girlfriend encouraged him to download the platform by his junior year of high school. In January 2021, Hood unveiled his debut single “Flashbacks,” which unapologetically opened the wounds of his fractured family. Resonating with listeners, it quickly gained millions of streams across all DSP platforms and landed on Spotify’s coveted New Music Friday playlist. “Isabelle,” Hood’s second single catapulted the artist to a larger conversation in music and racked up 25+ million streams in just the first few months. Based in Los Angeles, Hood has signed a deal with Arista Records and landed representation from William Morris Endeavor. Hood will make his debut festival performance at Hangout Fest in his hometown of Alabama in May 2022.

Carlie Hanson has released the new anti-judgment track “F*ck Your Labels.” The song is lifted from upcoming debut full-length "Tough Boy," set for a February 18 release. On “Fuck Your Labels,” “F*ck Your Labels’ is a rallying cry for anyone who feels like they’ve been thrown into any kind of box or judged because they don’t fit ‘societal norms.’ I wrote it about just being fed up with being labelled a certain way by people who are too stubborn to open up their minds,” said Carlie Hanson of the song. Carlie lets go of all of the judgement and negativity that has brought her down in the past. Over a mix of aggressive alt-rock and mellow hip-hop, Carlie mentions how she “left everything on the table,” only to be pushed away time and time again. In the end, Carlie accepts that she does not need to change for, or be labelled by, anyone, celebrating this notion in the choruses. Currently, on the cover of Alternative Press and sitting at a total of 268 million streams, Carlie is ready to have a phenomenal year. The artist has been working on her upcoming debut album "Tough Boy," her first full-length album since stepping onto the scene nearly five years ago. Containing a solid collection of tracks that showcase Carlie’s individuality, "Tough Boy" is sure to achieve her goal of being seen as more than “just a girl who makes pop music.”

Greta Isaac is gearing up for the release of her next EP, "I Think You'd Hate It Here," scheduled to drop on April 1st. Today the 26-year-old Welsh artist shares a taste of what's to come with "NUH UH." A follow-up to her previously released singles, "5'1" and "Polyfilla," her latest plows through with a massive hooky chorus: "You ain't ever seen a flower like this before," Isaac declares, as grizzly electro-pop production crash lands around her. "'NUH UH' is manic, delusional, desperate and supercharged to the point where I don't really feel like it’s me who’s singing it when I listen to it," Isaac says. "Sonically, it feels like the moment you have a 'spark' with someone — a spike in energy; your eyes blacken, your skin gets hot and sweaty." The accompanying "NUH UH" music video leans into the song's mania with a surreal take on the classic at-home fashion spread — only Isaac's unfolds without any of the glossy designer labels and decadence you'd typically see in a magazine. Her roast beef dinner is an old boot, her plants are made from wires, and the heel of her shoe is a glass penis. Everything's a bit off, but it's glamorous nonetheless — just in Isaac's twisted way. Having grown as an artist over the last year, Greta has seen championing support from Radio1, earning her the title of "Future Artist" while also appearing at last year’s Big Weekend Festival.

UK pop music star on the rise Call Me Loop returns with a brand new powerful single ‘Year of the Ex." At its best, the new single is 3 minutes of pure, unabashed pop, and the song’s lyrics don’t take much decoding. It’s an empowering anthem for anyone struggling to navigate their way through the complexities of a relationship and is set to ignite pop fans worldwide. South London’s Call Me Loop, aka Georgia Buchanan, has a natural ability for birthing killer hooks and penning unfiltered and relatable lyrics. Call Me Loop shared, “I wrote Year Of The Ex at the end of 2020, a year which highlighted a bit of a bad habit of mine where I tend to go backward in love; to the comfort of familiarity, rather than taking the riskier move of leaping forward into the unknown. It’s an upbeat anthemic song, but the lyrical content is kinda sad. It’s a habit I need to break. Get a little bit braver in love. There you go, maybe that’s my next single title.” Call Me Loop music evokes all the best qualities of a popstar: a commanding, vibrant presence combined with an effortlessly cool charm that is set to dominate the year ahead.

Selin (Selin Gecit) who draws attention with her strong voice and talent released the English version of "Gidip Gel", this time "Give and Take," with the Warner Music label. Selin, who had a remarkable break with the song "Gidip Gel" last year, proves how successful she is with “Give And Take,” the acoustically recorded version of this song in English. While describing her inspirations in an interview with Selin, she said: “Amy Winehouse's use of music and her voice triggered my interest in jazz. Even if you don't hear jazz in its pure form in my music, it definitely shows its effect because it is in my DNA. My father grew up a staunch Pink Floydist. I even have a video shot in a stroller when I was three months old. My father plays Pink Floyd's IF song on the CD, and I listen in silence. Then, over the years, while I was listening to Pink Floyd at home again, my ears were full, and their story approach to songwriting could be the source of my storytelling in songwriting today.” Selin is an incredibly versatile songwriter with a captivating voice. Together with London-based producer, Dustin Dooley, she is now finishing up her electrifying debut EP, which has already received high praise from established artists and producers.

JP Cooper teamed up with Ray BLK for their new single "Need You Tonight" and released the accompanying music video. The new song is lifted from his album "SHE," which will be released on February 18, 2022. The new project will also contain the singles "We Cry," "Holy Water," and "Call My Name." "Need You Tonight" is a perfect collaboration between two incredibly talented composers. "The play is about young love from a small town. It gives me a lot of memories and is one of my favourite songs on the new album. After I recorded the song, I wanted the fans to hear the other side of the story, so I got to Ray BLK, "said JP Cooper on" Need You Tonight." JP Cooper is a British singer and songwriter. His most famous song is "Perfect Strangers" with Jonas Blue, certified platinum in the UK. He started with 3 EPs on his own, and after signing with Island Records, he released two more EPs, "Keep the Quiet Out" and "When the Darkness Comes." "Raised Under Gray Skies," the first album, was released in September 2016 and contained the UK's top 10 track, "September Song." It has accumulated over 4 billion streams.

There is no chart-topping pop singer alive today with a career as peculiar or as steadfastly anti-mainstream as Sia, whose album “This Is Acting” was released on January 29, 2016, by Inertia. After signing a recording contract with Sony Corporation in the early 2000s, she battled depression and fame-induced anxiety for years, becoming a hermit until the release of the darkly anthemic “1000 Forms of Fear” in 2014. The album spawned the Grammy-nominated single “Chandelier” and its accompanying music video, which amassed 1 billion views in a year. She returned to the stage with her back turned to the audience, refusing to show her face, and incited equal parts acclaim and jeering criticism for her zany style and aesthetic. Sia’s unmistakable voice is raw, arrhythmic, slurred, reaching notes that most artists would not dare attempt to sing in public, let alone put on an album. With producers Greg Kurstin and Jesse Shatkin’s pulsing and industrial production, “This Is Acting” works in a very similar way to her previous album, which is both a successful yet limiting move on her part. Then, part of the pleasure of "This Is Acting" comes from the game of matching songs to their could-have-been singers. The risk is that people will infer that this is the reject pile. Sia’s openness about the songs’ background signals either great confidence that they will overcome that stigma or a cynical assumption that our fascination with ­celebrity interplay is the most potent attractor of all. More meta yet, the album opens with “Bird Set Free,” which comes across as a recap of Sia’s career and a manifesto for her self-realization as a songwriter: “I found myself in my melodies … I’ll shout it out like a bird set free.” "Pitch Perfect 2" and Rihanna reportedly turned it down; Adele recorded it but ultimately left it and other offerings by Sia off her "25" albums. Along with several other "This Is Acting" tracks, “Bird” was produced by Greg Kurstin, who also worked on “Hello” and other tunes for her album "25." it’s underscored by a rolling piano line that would have been at home there. Likewise, "The first single, “Alive,” was co-written with the British diva Adele and had a similar outsize-chorus catharsis. But it’s a bloodier, more ragged performance than Adele would chance — when Sia hits the high notes, her voice twists like a metal singer. This sense of hazard recalls her last album, "1000 Forms of Fear," and the one song here that Sia has said she wrote for herself, “One Million Bullets,” is also reminiscent of that record’s mood and the one you want on repeat. After a few songs, though, the listener begins to worry that since these tracks were all intended as singles, there will be no relief from huge choruses and banging beats. An electronic-marching-band effect comes like an onslaught in “Move Your Body,” reportedly written for Shakira, overwhelming what could have been a much more sinuous dance track. By the time one gets to “Unstoppable,” which sounds like a Katy Perry reject, Sia’s boast that she’ll never cease sounds more like a threat. The good news is that in the middle, there are two lighter, wittier tunes that Sia has said were meant for Rihanna: “Reaper” and “Cheap Thrills.” The bad news is that "This Is Acting" starts sounding like a scrap heap with the five songs that follow. “This is Acting” is not the reinvented sophomore effort with which most pop singers attempt to rival their first album’s success. From the production and lyrics to the music video aesthetics, almost everything remains the same as her previous album. Still, they come as only the latest in Sia’s chameleonic, decade-spanning career and are some of the first in which the singer seems to be honestly portraying herself, despite having written the songs for others.

Ten years ago, Gotye released "Somebody That I Used To Know," a duet recorded with New Zealand singer Kimbra that went Platinum in Australia a ridiculous 17 times, as well as going 14 times platinum in the United States, a notoriously difficult market to crack. It was the number one song in the Hottest 100 of 2011. It was the number one song just about everywhere at some stage. Its video was as iconic as its chorus, a key ingredient to a song's success in an era where YouTube began to reign supreme. A decade later, the piece has been etched into pop music history. It’s got 1.7 billion YouTube views, earned De Backer and Kimbra two Grammys, and topped the charts in 23 countries. Then there’s the fantastic video, which Australian artist Natasha Pincus directed. It shows Gotye singing the song while standing naked against a neutral backdrop. As he sings, his body and the scene gradually become covered with paint so that he seems to be part of a painting. My take is that his surroundings are swallowing his identity. The camera eventually pans to include Kimbra, who sings her response to Gotye. She becomes separated from the painting, and then the paint starts vanishing from her body, signifying her escape from what was left of their relationship. It’s brilliant!

Finishing off last year with 706 million streams on Spotify alone, German DJs and producers VIZE decided to kick off the new year with a special treat for their fans. It comes in a brand new single, “Dancing Alone,” which doubles as the official start to their new era. Known as the creators and drivers of the current slap house style, their recent release “Dancing Alone” sees VIZE dabbling with new musical elements. The song takes the BPM down a notch and the listener into a more melodic and festival-ready direction, a perfect preparation for the (hopefully happening) upcoming season. “We wanted to start the new year with one of our favourites! ‘Dancing Alone has the perfect blend of soulful & melodic EDM for us and is music for the clubs of the world“, the duo says about the release of “Dancing Alone”. The release comes at just the right time. It closes a highly successful 2021 for the duo, which saw numerous hit releases that included "Dynamite" featuring ILIRA, the Gold, and airplay hit ‘White Lies’ together with Tokio Hotel. Last year the two reached more than 200 million streams in Germany and had several tracks enter into the German annual charts of 2021. VIZE also released an album dedicated to a newly created dance genre called “Prock House,” collaborating with ALOTT.

Serving as a follow-up to the previous remix of Bonnie Raitt's “I Can't Make You Love Me.” Alex Palle and Drew Taggart have finally announced the return and the upcoming arrival of their 4th album "TCS4." The two friends have already delighted us with the surprise release of a remix at the very beginning of 2022. Well again, the new surprise remix of 'Meet Me At Our Spot' from another duo, THE ANXIETY (composed of Willow Smith and Tyler Cole), from their self-titled debut album in 2020. The result is once again very nice. In a still teenage, US pop spirit, we are delighted to find them in this remix exercise in which they excelled so much when they debuted on Soundcloud a few years ago. Without being revolutionary, this production is an excellent return to basics intended for first-time fans, who we are convinced will be delighted to find the real Chainsmokers. The duo wrote on their SoundCloud channel, “So this is one of our favourite songs recently. We wanted to take it back to our roots and remix this amazing indie record and turn it on its head and make something really fun. Again, this is just for you, our day one fan, to say thanks again and know some really special things are just around the corner.”

In November, singer-songwriter Amber Mark shared the sultry single “Softly” as a small taste of her upcoming debut album "Three Dimensions Deep," out January 28 via PMR/Interscope Records. Two weeks before the project’s arrival, the New York-based artist has shared a fresh remix of the track with Jamaican powerhouse Popcaan. Popcaan aids an air of dancehall to “Softly,” which previously received a remix from Nigerian DJ Cuppy in late December on the reimagined record. Built around a sample of Craig David’s “Rendezvous,” the single places Mark’s stellar vocals against a foundation of rhythmic bounce. Each Three Dimensions Deep single – “Softly,” “Worth It,” “Competition,” “Foreign Things” – has made a point of showcasing the widespread landscape of sounds and influences Mark has stored in her musical arsenal. The record as a whole anchor itself to the notion of looking deeper into the universe in search of responses to life’s seemingly unanswerable questions. Amber Mark said of the album, “Three Dimensions Deep is a musical journey of what questions you begin to ask yourself when you start looking to the universe for answers. I can only go as deep as the third dimension as that’s how we see the world, but what about when you start looking to the universe within for answers.” "Three Dimensions Deep" will bring Mark on the road this spring with a tour through Europe, the UK. The tour begins on March 5 with a show in Paris before wrapping with a hometown show on May 21 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Finnish rock band The Rasmus recently entered Finland's annual Eurovision selection contest, "Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu" (UMK; The New Music Competition). The band has just released its Eurovision entry bid and new single, "Jezebel," via Playground Music. "Jezebel" was co-written and produced by Desmond Child, who collaborated with THE RASMUS on their seventh studio album "Black Roses." They are responsible for formulating some of rock's biggest hits, with co-writer and production credits on iconic songs by Kiss, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Alice Cooper, to name a few. Speaking about the collaboration, Child says: "Lauri gives me a call and says, 'Hey, I need to write the biggest, greatest song in the entire world ever. Will you do it [with me]?' and I said, 'Yeah, but I am in Folegandros (Greece)' and he says, "I'll be right there." The UMK winner and Finland's next Eurovision Song Contest participant will be chosen at the UMK22 event in Turku Logomo on February 26, 2022. The final will be shown live on Yle TV1, Yle Areena and Yle's radio channels from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. EET. The winner will be chosen by TV viewers and the international UMK jury. The Rasmus announced that founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi had left the band earlier in the month. Pauli commented: "I have decided to make my departure from the band and seek new adventures and challenges in life. After Italy’s Måneskin emerged victorious at the 2021 event, next year’s Eurovision will be held in Turin. The final is set to air on May 14.

Kyla La Grange has premiered her first single of 2022, "Nurture," which is lifted from her forthcoming album "While Your Heart's Still Beating." "Nurture" is the third track to be shared from Kyla La Grange's first in over seven years, following last year's "Neverland" and rework of N-Trance's "Set You Free," and is teamed with an Alexandre Prod'homme-directed video. Kyla La Grange said of the new release, "Nurture" is the most personal song I've ever written, a storybook of relationships, from childhood to adulthood. I nearly didn't record it because it made me cry too much, and I was scared to release it because it felt so raw and exposing. Still, something about the writing of it felt very necessary for me like it was a way of paying tribute to certain things and then closing the door on them, putting them to bed." Making waves throughout the 2010s with the critically acclaimed albums Ashes (2012) and Cut Your Teeth (2014), the singer/songwriter was one of the defining voices of her era. Making a stunning return with what promises to be one of the defining records of 2022, While Your Heart’s Still Beating is undoubtedly Kyla’s most forward-thinking songwriting to date, a truly incredible insight into the emotional rollercoaster of your 30’s and returning to the creative mindset.

Ahead of his new album "On To Better Things," out this Friday (January 21), comprises of 15-tracks featuring guest appearances from Lil Uzi Vert, Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker. Iann Dior has shared a new single from the project featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker entitled "Thought It Was." The “Emotions” singer samples Semisonic’s ’90s-era classic “Closing Time” on the mid-tempo ballad, painting a forlorn picture as he becomes disenchanted with the fame game, lost in the Hollywood Hills. “I feel so alone in California/ I got all these friends, don’t even know one/ I lost my mind/ Chasin’ a feeling in the hills at night/ City of Angels but it hurts sometimes/ Finally made it, but it doesn’t feel right/ Don’t feel like I thought it would.” Speaking recently about Travis, iann said that the blink-182 drummer is "amazing, especially given everything that he’s gone through, a plane crash and everything. I’ve had deep conversations with him, and he feels like he got a second chance at life. So he’s taking care of himself. Not only is he an amazing producer, but he’s an influence in my life." Last June, Dior’s debut album, "Industry Plant," previously spent two weeks on the Billboard 200 following its November 2019 release, peaking at No. 44. Since then, however, he’s scored a massive No. 1 hit with 2020’s “Mood” alongside 24kGoldn, which spent eight weeks at the top of the Hot 100 that fall and remains his only entry on the chart to date.

R&B singer J. Holiday’s first album in eight years is on its way. "Time," the R&B veteran’s follow-up to 2014’s "Guilty Conscience," arrives on Feb. 7 via HMG/MilknSizz Music. Last year, he released the lead single “Ride,” Now he’s back with “Zero To Sixty.” The singer’s new single is just another bedroom banger. “Time” is the follow-up to the critically panned “Guilty Conscience” album from 2014. J. Holiday and MilknSizz collaborated on the entire project, which they both wrote and produced. Four of the 11 tracks from the forthcoming album have already been released, one of which hit streaming platforms this week: “Zero to Sixty.” J. Holiday spoke about the upcoming project, and this is what he had to say about the sound: “On this album, we played with a lot of different sounds. A lot of people have never heard me in my lower register like my new song “Ride.” I don't normally sing in that key. You have to expand your horizons and let your fans see what you're capable of. Nodding to his slow and steamy trademark croons, “Zero to Sixty” is backed by throbbing bass. Lyrically, he gives off this illusion that a mystery woman hopped in his ride and used him for his joystick. Since 2018, J. Holiday has been sharing singles from "Time." It started with “25 to Life.” Then he returned in 2019 with “Feels Like,” an enticing call to the dance floor that is steeped in island vibes.

Philadelphia-based synth-pop duo Marian Hill teamed up with Brooklyn-based Albanian rapper GASHI to release a new song, “little bit,” which marks the first collaboration between Marian Hill and GASHI. The new song was written by Samantha Gongol, Jeremy Lloyd and Larry Gashi. Produced by Jeremy Lloyd is accompanied by a music video that features Marian Hill and GASHI live-performing footage. The new single details the surprising feeling of the indifference of seeing an ex after a breakup. The new album is expected to be released in spring 2022, including the previously released singles “ooo (that's my type),” “omg,” and “it never ends,” featuring guest appearances from Baby Tate and GASHI. It is their first album in four years. In 2016, they released their debut album, "Act One," featuring the hit single “Down,” which quickly heated the social media circuits following an advertisement for the iPhone 7 and Air Pods. This validated their hard work and creative style, moving them up the Shazam charts. The duo is pushing the limits of their original indie electronic music to new innovative techniques in their new album, which is expected to be released in spring 2022. It includes the previously released singles “ooo (that's my type),” “omg,” and “it never ends,” featuring guest appearances from Baby Tate and GASHI and their first album in four years.

Miranda Lambert makes the cowboy life look pretty easy during her new music video for her song "If I Was a Cowboy." The singer isn't quite the hero of the story the scenes tell, but it's clear she has everyone in town's respect. Longtime collaborator Trey Fanjoy directs the western-themed clip; the western-themed clip opens as Lambert saddles up her horse and rides through the Tombstone-looking town. She then meets up with her cowboy cronies, and when night falls, they are seen winding down by a fire with drinks in hand. The video comes to a climax in the town watering hole as Lambert, wearing a custom rhinestone ensemble by DanielxDiamond, enters the smoke-filled saloon packed with gun-slinging cowboys. Lambert’s husband, Brendan McLoughlin, portrays the role of a cowboy playing poker and winds up saving the day as he cracks a liquor bottle over his unruly opponents’ heads when he draws his gun at the poker table. "If I Was a Cowboy" adds a pinch of Western music to Lambert's catalogue. In that way, it's an extension of songs released on the Grammy-nominated album "The Marfa Tapes," her project with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram from May 2020.