Hayley Williams –Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Today, the 68th annual GRAMMY nominations were announced, with Hayley Williams racking up an impressive four noms. Her album, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album, with nominations for songs “Parachute” in the Best Alternative Music Performance category, “Mirtazapine” in the Best Rock Performance category, and “Glum” in the Best Rock Song category. She has previously been nominated 5 times for her work in Paramore, with 3 wins including Best Rock Album and Best Alternative Performance in 2023. Ego Death is one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year and its success is even more impressive considering it was self-released on Williams’ newly created Post Atlantic Records (distributed by Secretly Distribution).

Today, the final physical version of the record is available in stores worldwide. The completed album includes 20 songs, two of which didn’t appear on the original digital version, but are now available. This includes the R&B tinged earworm, “Good Ol’ Days,” released two weeks ago and “Showbiz” out today.

Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party originally dropped as a surprise collection of 17 unsequenced singles. Fans took to social media, working up their own tracklistings and even creating hayleysingles.com, where thousands of fans were able to share their preferred order just as Williams had hoped. Later the album was released digitally with 18 tracks including the single “Parachute,” and has been streamed over 130 million times in the 7 weeks since its digital release. Fans can order the physical album today, and a series of live listening events have been planned in record stores around the world

Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party was produced entirely by Daniel James. Williams wrote, played and recorded a variety of instruments across each of the 20 songs, with cross-project contributions from long-time collaborators Brian Robert Jones and Joey Howard, and contributions from Jim-E Stack on “True Believer,” which just earned Williams her first solo Billboard Alternative Sales #1. After 20+ years spent fulfilling their contract for Atlantic Records – a contract Williams signed as a mere teenager – Paramore announced in December of 2023 that they were finally an independent band. This marks her first ever release outside of that contract.

Williams has released music videos for the album’s title track and “Parachute”, directed by Zachary Gray, and the single “Glum,” directed by her Paramore bandmate Zac Farro and AJ Gibboney.

Earlier this month she gave a stirring performance of her song “True Believer” on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

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