Dermot Kennedy

This year has seen Dermot rise and rise, achieving another Top 20 single in the UK and Top 5 in Ireland with track ‘Better Days’, and in September he completed a UK tour to over 90,000 fans which included 3 sold-out nights at London’s Alexandra Palace - breaking the record for the first artist in history to play 3 sold out shows there on their debut album. This was then followed by a North American tour that saw a triumphant sold-out show at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.  

Reaching nearly three billion streams globally and seeing over 15 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, Dermot has become an irrefutable global star since the release of his number 1 selling debut album ‘Without Fear’ in 2019. Alongside getting nominated for the Best International Male BRIT Award in 2020, he has become the biggest selling Irish artist of the millennium, with his debut album sitting at the #1 spot for a total of 29 weeks and selling over 1.7m copies worldwide and becoming Ireland’s fastest selling debut album of the past 20 years.

Lead track from the album ‘Outnumbered’ is a platinum-selling top 10 single and became one of the longest running tracks to be playlisted on BBC Radio 1. While single ‘Giants’ peaked at #1 on the Irish Singles Chart and scored Gold status in the UK. Dermot also recently teamed up with multi-platinum Italian production trio MEDUZA to release their chart topping single ‘Paradise’. The song spent over 20 weeks in both the Irish and UK Official Singles Chart, reaching #1 in Ireland and #5 in the UK.

Over the past 18 months, alongside writing the follow up ‘Without Fear’, Dermot performed live with Meduza on The Ellen Show, performed a fantastic live streamed show at The Natural History Museum in London and recorded a pre-show performance for U2's The Virtual Road series on St. Patrick's Day. He also played in the World XI team for the second year in a row at Unicef’s annual Soccer Aid event.

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