Kygo announced the upcoming release of his new LP “Golden Hour” on March 23, via Twitter. The Norwegian DJ and songwriter debuted in 2013 with the single “Epsilon”.
The following year he released his second single ‘Firestone’, which was an immediate success. The song was streamed 700 million times on YouTube and 715 million times on Spotify, as of 2 January 2020
— Kygo (@KygoMusic) March 23, 2020
Since then, the first song released was “Like it is” on and it was a collaboration with Tyga and Zara Larsson. The song was announced to be a Song of the Day in the official Shazam Twitter account.
#LikeItIs by @KygoMusic, @zaralarsson & @Tyga is our Song of the Day. Listen now on @AppleMusic: https://t.co/vxzLJOxNGb pic.twitter.com/5J4X9gnYmb
— Shazam (@Shazam) March 31, 2020
The following Friday, the next song of the album “I’ll Wait” was released. Four days after, the song has already been streamed five million times.
Kygo has a variety of collaborations with many different pop artists like Tom Odell, for the song “Fiction“, Angus & Julia Stone for the song “For What it’s Worth” and many more. All of these can be heard in his 2016 studio album “Cloud Nine“.
On April 17 the third song of the album was released and it featured English singer and songwriter, Zak Abel.
The song begins with the story of the journey both artist planned for shooting the song video on the Maldives. Since they both were in lockdown, this plan did not succeed.
However, a video for the song has been shot. It comprises short clips of the everyday life of the musicians. It also indicates that Kygo is working on new music.
The song ends with the quote “I guess the lesson is to try and make the best out of a difficult situation. Stay home. Stay safe.”
