WHAT IT IS: 24-year-old Icelandic-Chinese artist Laufey grew up playing cello and piano while getting hooked on Ella Fitzgerald. While studying at Berklee in 2020, she dropped debut single “Street by Street.” Her first full-length, Everything I Know About Love, debuted at #1 on the Alternative New Artist Album chart, while lead single “Valentine” hit #1 on Spotify’s Jazz chart as she became the platform’s most-streamed jazz artist of 2022. “From the Start” from her upcoming Bewitched has notched 60m+ streams and 650m+ TikTok views and is the most-streamed jazz song in the U.S.
ALBUM: Bewitched
RELEASE DATE: 9/8
SINGLE: “From the Start”
TV: Kimmel (January 2022)
LIVE: Sold out 30k tickets in minutes for The Bewitched Tour (fall); the Kennedy Center w/National Symphony Orchestra (9/8), the Ford w/L.A. Philharmonic (9/16); wrapped sold-out headline tour in Australia and Asia, more
INTERNET: 500m+ career streams; 7m+ monthly Spotify listeners; 2m+ TikTok followers, 1m+ Instagram, 507k+ YouTube subs; 500k+ new fans per month; “From the Start” added to Today’s Top Hits; 1.5m+ daily streams
RADIO: Support from Music Choice, Coffee Shop Cuts, WFUV, Flood FM; sessions and interviews with WFUV’s Acoustic Café and KEXP; KCRW “Today’s Top Tune”
PRESS: NPR Music, Genius, UPROXX, Ones to Watch, more
BOOKING: Zac Bluestone/Wasserman
PUBLISHING: Warner Chappell
MANAGEMENT: Max Gredinger/Foundations Music