Their respective fanbases have been breathlessly anticipating the release since the pair began teasing posts of them hanging out and working together earlier this year and then snippets of the track last month. Their first flex of pop music muscle was on the album track Unstable from Bieber’s chart-topping Justice record, released in March. The Kid Laroi, known as Charlton Howard on his passport, announced last month he had signed with Bieber’s longtime manager Scooter Braun, the music entrepreneur and investor who acquired the rights to Taylor Swift’s first six records when he bought the Big Machine label. Stay ventures into EDM territory with an 80s vibe and is almost guaranteed a big chart debut in Australia where music fans embrace a well-placed F bomb in a song – and this one has two of them. And Laroi isn’t the only Australian with credits on the track. Perth hip hop production and songwriting duo FnZ – Michael “Finatik” Mule and Isaac “Zac” De Boni, who have worked with Kanye West, Drake, A$AP Rocky – worked on the hit-in-waiting. American hitmaker and pop star Charlie Puth was also involved. Laroi, who recently enjoyed another chart resurgence for his No. 1 single Without You courtesy of a remix co-starring Miley Cyrus, has amassed more than one billion streams for his music since breaking worldwide with the single Let Her Go in 2019. The 17-year-old Australian and 27-year-old Canadian’s shot at a No. 1 debut on the pop charts with Stay depends on the resilience of Ed Sheeran’s comeback single Bad Habits and also the return of another pop powerhouse Post Malone, with Motley Crew on Friday, his first new music in two years. The Kid Laroi has had Bieber on speed dial for mentoring since the pair met this year, with their first “conversation” happening when the Australian was in the shower. “He asked for my number and I am in the shower thinking I hope this guy doesn’t call me while I’m in the shower … and he calls me,” Laroi told Fitzy and Wippa. “I answered ‘Hey man, I’m in the shower.’ And he’s like ‘That’s hilarious. I am going to send you a song for us.’”Stay is the first taste of the Kid Laroi’s new record F*ck Lov3 which is expected to be released this month.Laroi will also be celebrating topping the leaderboard with Sycco and Baker Boy with three nominations for the 2021 National Indigenous Music Awards, announced this week. Those artists alongside Birdz, Miiesha and Jessica Mauboy are up for the Artist of the Year prize at the NIMAs which will be held in Darwin on August 7.
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