Kygo Has Finally Announced A Release Date For His ‘Stellar’ New Single
Kygo has been teasing his upcoming release for a few weeks now. We first heard this hit played out at the main stage of a major festival in his home country of Norway. Then came the teasers in his sets at both Ibiza and Las Vegas. Soon the track we even being performed live. While we are still a bit confused with who is on the vocals, we have always known the songs name, ‘Stargazing’.
We were the first to break the News of its live debut, and we are incredibly excited to announce that it is time to announce it’s official release date. This Friday, September 22, we will finally hear the full studio version of ‘Stargazing’.
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Announcing an exact release date felt like a genuinely big deal after weeks of teasing
By this point “Stargazing” had been floating around as a live-only mystery track for weeks, first at Jugendfest in Norway, then through Ibiza and Vegas sets, so actually nailing down September 22nd as a hard release date gave fans something concrete to count down to instead of just hoping it’d show up at the next show. That kind of drawn-out, festival-circuit rollout is basically the opposite of how music gets teased today, where a short clip can turn into a release date announcement within days instead of weeks.
This was peak “we broke it first” era for EDM blogs
Little details like this post proudly noting it broke the news of the track’s live debut are a good snapshot of how competitive EDM blog coverage was around 2017. Every outlet wanted to be the first to confirm a new Kygo track’s existence, and stuff like exclusive festival footage and screenshots of Instagram stories were treated like real scoops, which honestly they kind of were before official channels started controlling the narrative more tightly.
“Stellar” ended up being just a placeholder nickname, not the actual title
Funny detail looking back, this post calls it Kygo’s “stellar” new single as a description rather than an actual name, since “Stargazing” had already been established as the title by this point. That kind of loose language in early coverage is a good example of how blog posts during an unreleased rollout sometimes blur the line between reporting a confirmed fact and just hyping up a track everyone was already excited about.
Facebook posts were still a legitimate primary source for artist news in 2017
Embedding a direct Facebook post from Kygo’s own page as the proof source for a release date announcement, like this one does, was a totally normal way for blogs to verify news at the time. Artists hadn’t yet consolidated all their official announcements onto Twitter or Instagram exclusively, so Facebook was still very much in the mix as a primary channel worth checking and citing directly.
