Celeste has announced today via her Instagram account the title and release date for her debut album ‘Not Your Muse,’ which she has said is due to release ‘on the 26th February 2021.’ Celeste writes about the news on her Instagram post, stating that ‘For me it’s the beginning of finding my voice, the one that empowers me and hopefully those who it reaches.’ Also that ‘Each song that has been written can pin point a very specific moment in my life, so I look forward to you all hearing those stories.’
Celeste recently became the subject of mainstream debate when she wrote and performed this year’s John Lewis and Waitrose Christmas song ‘A Little Love,’ which has been met with widespread praise for both its video and for the song itself. As a single in its own right, ‘A Little Love,’ has performed well, impressing radio DJs and attracting airplay from stations as current as Radio 1 which is pretty impressive for an up and coming artist.
It is funny to think that this time last year, Celeste would have been a name known by only a few, and now her song is likely to have been heard by almost every household in the UK. The trajectory of Celeste’s rapidly growing success has taken a surprising upward turn in late 2020, especially amongst all the issues facing musicians at this time. She has supported Lewis Capaldi at Amazon Prime Day Live, as well as picking up the BRITS ‘Rising Star award,’ featured on the cover of numerous magazines, and even performed a special live version of ‘Give A Little Love,’ for The Voice final recently.
Partnering with the John Lewis Christmas advertising campaign has been known to provide an important boost to up and coming artists in the past, with Ellie Goulding’s version of Elton John’s ‘Your Song,’ 2010 transporting her to even greater success than she had achieved previously. The advert, which was posted on Waitrose & Partners Youtube channel on the 13th of November, has now received 1,828,280 views, so there is no shortage of new audience opportunities for Celeste right now.
The effect that this collaboration has had on Celeste’s audience size is palpable, with her own video for ‘A Little Love,’ which premiered on her own Youtube channel on the 23rd of November collecting a more modest but still significant 257,147 views to date. There are a range of deals available for pre-order of physical copies of the album on a variety of formats including vinyl, CD and cassette on Celeste’s official store as well as signed cards and luxury bundles.
Celeste currently does not have a full tour scheduled in support of the album however with recent news that a coronavirus vaccine has been approved for general use in the UK and depending on the success of the album come its release day, perhaps this will change. In the meantime, fans do have one Celeste concert to look forward to next year when she is due to appear at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 21/04/21.
