Sam has performed a new song called ‘People Watching’ which sounds fantastic!

Edited November 8, 2024Nov 8 by WhoOdyssey

Boardmasters version of ‘People Watching’ - sounds like the perfect massive radio hit

 

Teasers of "People Watching" (stylised in lowercase) have begun.

 

when do we reckon this is out?

Next Friday would seem likely if he's already posting lyrics and stuff?

I wish ‘People Watching’ would get a release date. I’m starting to get sick of hearing it on TikTok.

I wish ‘People Watching’ would get a release date. I’m starting to get sick of hearing it on TikTok.

The second countdown on his website ends on 13th November, so I imagine it will be then.

I hope it’s a hit but I fear it will get lost in the Christmas rush

Ffs so this is already out on Tik Tok??

This comes out on the 15th November so not long now!

And he said album announcement will be coming on Wednesday!

Great news! It'll be interesting to see how high it charts.

I can see this doing well.

 

Fingers crossed

I can see this doing well.

 

Fingers crossed

 

I think it’ll do really well then will fall away with the Christmas rush and return in January.

He should postpone the release date to 27th December or 3rd January 2025 so it don’t get damaged by the Christmas rush

^^ I think it’s probably part of the plan, release it now and let it have a good first week as I’m sure that it will have strong streaming support and then after the Christmas rush it will be well positioned to bounce back and take advantage of the clear out.

 

There is a £1.99 CD single available for week 1, guessing we’ll see a vinyl in January - https://shop.samfender.com/products/people-...ching-cd-single

Really looking forward to new Sam Fender music.

 

Keeping my expectations low for chart positions as apart from Seventeen Going Under and the collab with Noah Kahan he hasn't had massive hits.

But hope as a lead and with some support this can do ok.

 

Sounds decent from the live version

Just announced that it’s releasing on Friday… I hope my expectations aren’t too high but I really think it’ll go Top 5 and could even be a #1 contender.

Can’t see no1 with Spotify favouring crap generic stuff but top 30 would be excellent!

welcome back to 2004 when #1s have nothing to do with Spotify playlist but with virality/tiktok

we haven't had a #1 thanks to playlists in years

 

think it will be top 5 for sure, pity Gracie is doing 650K now cos a couple years ago when the #1 was not even on 500K, he could have totally done it