That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of ...

But Fender is aware that he’s an exception, and now he’s talking about how the music business is “rigged” against people from working-class backgrounds.

Breaking out from his Newcastle homestead to become the UK’s golden boy of a gritty, soulful, working-class perspective, Sam Fender has undoubtedly worked his way into the heart of the nation. Even as ...

Sam Fender storms ahead in the race for this week’s Official Number 1 album with People Watching, already securing the biggest opening week of 2025 after just three days. The North Shields ...

Fresh off the back of People Watching, Sam Fender says he's eager to try something new for his fourth album. By Tyler Jenke Sam Fender might only be days removed from the release of his third ...

I’m 28 and went to a school ... parallels with Fender’s home in north-east England. Kurt explains that he’s had personal struggles, too, linked to where he’s from. “Sam Fender has ...

In 2021, Sam Fender released his second album Seventeen Going Under. Arriving amid COVID lockdowns in the U.K., the record tapped into the nation’s reflective mood, and saw the high-flying ...

Sam Fender has recently scorned the modern music industry, saying that the system is “rigged” in favour of the upper classes. He described the music industry as “90 per cent kids who are privately ...

THE SKINNY: Sam Fender fell at the tricky second album hurdle, not in the world’s eyes as Seventeen Going Under only stepped up his notoriety, but in his own. Everything felt too rushed to him. He was ...

Sam Fender has branded the music industry "rigged". The 30-year-old singer - who hails from the north east of England - believes the artists from working class backgrounds rarely achieve success ...