

Of the 17 songs that are included in the album, four were previously released as singles leading up to the full-length project, including “Talk,” “My Bad,” “Self,” and “Don’t Pretend.” Beginning in early February, Khalid strategically teased Free Spirit with these singles. The album released on Friday under RCA Records. His momentum’s not slowing down anytime soon, from the looks of his recent release Free Spirit, the artist’s second LP. He pulls approximately 47 million listeners monthly, making him No.

This is not the only impressive stat on his Spotify profile, however. On April 1, Khalid retweeted a tweet from a fan account that informed followers that one of the artist’s first singles, “Location,” recently reached 700 million streams on Spotify-and this was no April Fool’s joke: Khalid is a bona fide pop powerhouse at the young age of 21.
