YUNGBLUD

English musician Yungblud fuses rock, punk, and hip-hop while upending social norms, forging a defiant sound that resonates with marginalized listeners worldwide. Merging punk attitude with pop accessibility, he built momentum through the latter half of the 2010s and achieved a string of successes alongside Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Dan Reynolds, and longtime associate Travis Barker. Although his debut full-length 21st Century Liability arrived in 2018, mainstream recognition followed the next year via the EP The Underrated Youth. That momentum propelled his 2020 second album Weird! to number one on the U.K. albums chart. In 2022 he embraced the ongoing pop-punk resurgence on his third album Yungblud, then issued several singles throughout 2023.

Born Dominic Harrison in Yorkshire, the singer/songwriter grew up surrounded by music; his father dealt vintage guitars and his grandfather performed with T. Rex. Drawing from Bob Dylan, the Clash, and the Beatles, he took up guitar and vocals early on. At age nineteen in 2017 he released his first single “King Charles,” a cross-genre protest track evoking early Arctic Monkeys, Jamie T, and Rat Boy. He continued with “I Love You, Will You Marry Me,” which added dub and grime textures. A Geffen contract produced Yungblud’s initial collection, the self-titled 2018 EP that gathered his opening two singles plus three additional songs. His first full-length 21st Century Liability emerged that May and registered strong showings in Australia and Belgium.

Yungblud resurfaced in early 2019 with “Parents,” “Loner,” and “11 Minutes,” the last a joint effort with Halsey and Travis Barker. Later that year another Barker collaboration, the energetic “I Think I’m Okay” with rapper Machine Gun Kelly, elevated his position on the U.S. rock chart. These placements set the stage for his first Billboard 200 entry at year’s end with the third EP The Underrated Youth, which contained his third Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, “Original Me” featuring Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds. Closing 2019, Yungblud joined Marshmello and Blackbear on “Tongue Tied.”

Entering the following decade he launched a new campaign with the exuberant pop track “Weird!” Subsequent releases paired him with rapper Denzel Curry on “Lemonade” and English band Bring Me the Horizon on “Obey.” He concluded 2020 by unveiling his official sophomore album Weird!, which reached the summit of the U.K. albums chart. In 2021 he delivered an emotive live rendition of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” that accompanied NASA’s livestream of the Perseverance Mars rover landing. Yungblud opened 2022 with the intense pop-punk single “The Funeral,” then issued “Memories,” a collaboration with fellow revivalist Willow. His self-titled third album appeared later that year and featured those tracks plus “Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today.” Returning to alt-rock in 2023, he released the anthemic, introspective single “Lowlife,” followed by the bold “Hated” and “Happier” with Oli Sykes. One further joint release, “When We Die (Can We Still Get High?)” with rapper Lil Yachty, surfaced in January 2024.