Arcade is not only the winning Eurovision song of 2019, the song also ensured that Duncan Laurence ended up in the charts all over the world. The singer will now tour Europe first, but then plans to travel and make music worldwide.
“I can’t give the dates yet, but we are also going to plan performances in America,” said the 28-year-old singer on Wednesday evening during a special event in Amsterdam where he released his new single. Electric Life played for the first time. The song will be released as a single on August 5.
Laurence won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 with Arcade, after which the song reached a number 1 position in the charts not only in the Netherlands, but also in countries such as Iceland and Estonia. Knew in 45 charts around the world Arcade reach the top 50.
That success is not only due to the Song Contest: at the end of 2020 the song received a major revival because it became part of a TikTok trend. As a result, the song also officially broke through in the United States, where Laurence performed in the Ellen DeGeneres talk show, his song by a participant of The Voice was sung and Kelly Clarkson also made a cover.
On Wednesday evening, Laurence said that the song is now gaining popularity in India, where the singer may also go during his world tour.
The singer will first perform in the Netherlands at the end of this year: on October 25 he can be seen in De Melkweg in Amsterdam. Around that time, Laurence’s second album may also be released.
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