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Global phenomenon DERMOT KENNEDY<\/strong> today releases his brand new single \u2018BETTER DAYS\u2019<\/strong>, his first new solo music since the smash hit single \u2018Giants\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Better Days<\/a>\u2019 takes a sentiment we\u2019ve all hoped for so much over the past 18 months, with Dermot vocalising the thoughts of people the world over. The track comes with the kind of optimism and hopes Dermot has been so vocal about throughout his career, providing support and solace to so many. Produced by Dan Nigro<\/strong> (Olivia Rodrigo \u2018Driver\u2019s Licence\u2019<\/a>), \u2018Better Days\u2019 utilises a female back choir and a chorus hook that is guaranteed to be a live favourite on Dermot\u2019s massive upcoming Irish dates<\/p>\n

On the track, Dermot explained \u201cThis is a song about patience. It\u2019s about believing in something brighter, and never losing sight of Better Days, no matter how hard things might get. In a time where so many people feel worried and exhausted, I would love for this song to remind even one person that things will improve. As an artist, I feel somewhat responsible to try to make people feel a little better, whether that\u2019s making them think of someone they love, or just taking their mind off their problems for the length of a song. So this is my contribution to hopefully providing some people with a moment\u2019s solace. Better Days will come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Now sitting with nearly two and half billion streams globally and over 15million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, Dermot has become an unquestionable global megastar since the release of his number 1 selling debut album \u2018Without Fear\u2019 in 2019. Alongside getting nominated for the Best International Male<\/strong> BRIT Award in 2020, he has become the best selling Irish artist of his generation, with his debut album sitting at the #1 spot for a total of 27 weeks and selling over 1.7m copies worldwide<\/strong>. The album is also Ireland\u2019s fastest-selling debut album of the millennium.<\/p>\n

The lead track from the album \u2018Outnumbered\u2019 is a platinum-selling top 10 single and became one of the longest-running tracks to be playlisted on BBC Radio 1. While single \u2018Giants\u2019 peaked at #1 on the Irish Singles Chart and scored Gold status in the UK. Dermot\u2019s most recent single saw him team up with Multi-platinum Italian production trio MEDUZA<\/strong> to release their chart-topping single \u2018Paradise\u2019. The song spent over 20 weeks in both the Irish and UK Official Singles Chart, reaching #1 in Ireland and #5 in the UK.<\/p>\n

Dermot\u2019s upcoming 2022 Irish tour is his biggest yet. With two nights at Dublin’s St Anne’s Park, Malahide Castle, INEC, and Belfast it’s set to wow audiences across the country. We’ll still always look back fondly on his playing The Olympia here in Dublin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the past 18 months, alongside writing the follow up to \u2018Without Fear\u2019, Dermot performed live with Meduza<\/a> on The Ellen Show, performed a fantastic live show at Natural History Museum in London and recorded a fantastic pre-show performance for U2’s The Virtual Road<\/a> series on St. Patrick’s Day. He was also awarded Man of the Match at Unicef\u2019s annual Soccer Aid event.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"video","video_platform":"youtube","video":"3gqbE9jDI1g","facebook_video":"","video_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"cta","copy":"Listen to Better Days Now","link":"https:\/\/DermotKennedy.lnk.to\/BetterDays","cta_copy_color":"#ffffff","alignment":"center"}],"block_type":"image-content","thumbnail_size":"height-2","image_thumbnail":{"ID":1306,"id":1306,"title":"Dermot Kennedy Better Days","filename":"BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-scaled.jpg","filesize":296586,"url":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/music-news\/dermot-kennedy-better-days\/better_days_main\/","alt":"Dermot Kennedy Better Days","author":"3","description":"Dermot Kennedy Better Days","caption":"","name":"better_days_main","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1305,"date":"2021-07-27 16:39:10","modified":"2021-07-27 16:39:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":525,"medium_large-height":350,"large":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-1024x683.jpg","large-width":525,"large-height":350,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"twentyseventeen-featured-image":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-2000x1200.jpg","twentyseventeen-featured-image-width":2000,"twentyseventeen-featured-image-height":1200,"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BETTER_DAYS_MAIN-100x100.jpg","twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar-width":100,"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar-height":100}},"display_tag":false,"related":[{"post":{"ID":957,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-28 00:02:21","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-28 00:02:21","post_content":"","post_title":"Dermot Kennedy on the Late Late Toy Show","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dermot-kennedy-on-the-late-late-toy-show","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-08 14:09:05","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-08 14:09:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/?post_type=news&p=957","menu_order":0,"post_type":"music-news","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"post":{"ID":310,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2019-05-27 23:16:48","post_date_gmt":"2019-05-27 23:16:48","post_content":"","post_title":"Dermot Kennedy at Dublin's Olympia Theatre","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dermot-kennedy-at-dublins-olympia-theatre","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-08 14:11:33","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-08 14:11:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.ebow.ie\/extras\/umusic\/backend\/?post_type=features&p=310","menu_order":0,"post_type":"music-features","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}}],"tag_color":"","meta_description":"Dermot Kennedy releases his new single Better Days!","social_share_image":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/music-news\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/music-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/music-news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"category_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umusic.ie\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_post?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}