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SIA ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘MUSIC - SONGS FROM AND INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE’ OUT FEBRUARY 12, 2021. NEW SINGLE “HEY BOY” OUT NOW

 SET TO PERFORM AT THE VIRTUAL 2020 ARIA AWARDS

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW HERE 

Today nine-time Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum artist Sia announces her eighth studio album Music - Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture out February 12th via Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic. Pre-order the album HERE. The album announcement is heralded by new single “Hey Boy” written by Sia, Jesse Shatkin and KAMILLE - and produced by Jesse Shatkin.  Listen/share “Hey Boy” HERE.

 The fourteen-track album features new music from Sia, written both specifically for the film and inspired by the project. Her upcoming directorial debut feature film Music includes hit single “Together”, as well as timely call to action “Courage to Change which were released earlier this year. 

Today we get the first look at the highly anticipated film Music which will receive a theatrical release in Australia by Studiocanal (WATCH HERE). The screenplay for Music was written by Sia and Dallas Clayton based on a short story Sia wrote in 2007. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, Deepwater Horizon), Tony and Grammy Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, Harriet, Murder on the Orient Express) together with Sia-protégé and breakout star Maddie Ziegler (upcoming West Side Story), and is a wholly original exploration of the healing power of love and the importance of community. Music explores the fragile bonds that hold us together and imagines a world where love can be found in the most miraculous of places.

ABOUT SIA

Nine-time Grammy nominee Sia has cemented her role as one of today’s biggest stars, sought after songwriters, and captivating live performersShe released her ‘We Are Born’ album in 2016 which peaked at #2 on the ARIA Albums Chart and spawned the Top 20 ARIA single “Clap Your Hands. She went on to release another two #1 ARIA Albums with ‘1000 Forms of Fear’, which resulted in her first U.S. Top 10 song “Chandelier, and her 2016 Grammy nominated album ‘This Is Acting’ that produced a # 1 U.S. single and a worldwide smash with “Cheap Thrills followed by her sold out Nostalgic For The Present World Tour.

 Last year she partnered with Diplo and Labrinth to form the group LSD. Their debut album, Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present... LSD has over 1 Billion streams to date.,. In 2017 she released the evergreen holiday collection ‘Everyday Is Christmas’. She has more videos in YouTube’s “Billion Views Club” than any other female on the planet. Along with her own successes, Sia has also written global smashes for today’s biggest acts including Beyonce, BTS, David Guetta, Kanye West, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Ozuna, and many more. 

Her last single “Together” has more than 10 million Australian streams and 119 million global streams. The official video has over 21 million views! “Together” and went #1 at Australian radio.