Album: People Watching (Sam Fender)

 

ALBUM: People Watching 

Released: 21 February 2025

Label: Polydor Records

Genre: Folk, Rock

Producers:

Adam Granduciel, Dean Thompson, Joe Atkinson, Markus Dravs & Sam Fender

Composer: Sam Fender

Additional Vocals: Brooke Bentham & Craig Finn

Singles: 

"People Watching" : released as the lead single on 15 November 2024, the song was co-produced by Fender himself alongside Adam Granduciel, Joe Atkinson and Dean Thompson. "People Watching" debuted at No.4 on the UK Official Singles chart, becoming his third top ten single on the chart. It'd become the first alternative song by a British artist to debut inside the top 4 of the chart (in over a decade). In Ireland, the song has reached a No.25 peak, while hitting No.24 on the NZ chart. Fender performed the song at the 2025 BRIT Awards. The song would peak at #2 on our Officio Play on the 53rd Edition. 

"Wild Long Lie" - released on 2 December 2024

"Arm’s Length" - released on 24 January 2025, peaking at No.14 on the UK Singles chart. 

"Remember My Name" - released on14 February 2025. It would go on to peak at No.6 on our Officio Play chart. 

Charts: 

The album went straight to No.1 on the UK Albums chart (ahead of Tate McRae's So Close to What), earning Fender his third chart topper on the record chart (following Hypersonic Missiles (2019) and Seventeen Going Under (2021)) 

The set opened atop the Scottish Albums chart, besting Tate McRae (as in the UK). This marked Fender's third #1 in the country. In Ireland, the album came in second behind Tate McRae's So Close to What.