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On Hypersonic Missiles, Fender drew inspiration from the lives around him in North Shields: people trying to scrape through the week and make it to Saturday, the souls lost to unemployment and suicide. Then for Seventeen Going Under, he turned that gaze inwards, the camera focusing in on his own coming of age story in a Springsteenian sweep of drama. On People Watching, however, the perspectives shift, often within songs themselves. Those closest to Fender are here - his friends, loved ones and family - but there’s also his own experiences and battles, internal and external, and much wider questions and reflections.

Fender cherry-picked eleven songs that provide a rich picture of exactly where and who he is at this moment in time: the people and events that have shaped him, the word around him and the loves, passions and beliefs that drive him.

Sonically, the heart-lifting vistas which connected to so many across Fender’s first two albums are still here, but the songs on People Watching are given a little more space to breathe this time around, and there’s a whole new palette of sounds and textures helping Fender paint his pictures. Thanks in no small part to the role of The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel as co-producer.

On People Watching Fender has pulled together a collection of songs that not only look back into his own recent, and not so recent past, but also dig into the very roots of who he is.

“It’s just a collection of songs about the human experience.”

Monthly Listeners

9.4 million

Followers

1.3 million

Total Streams

3.4 million

Top Cities

1,003,072 listeners
387,251 listeners
352,145 listeners
348,543 listeners
301,730 listeners

Popular Tracks

106 tracks
1
Seventeen Going Under

Seventeen Going Under

Jul 7, 2021

328.8 million

streams

2
Hypersonic Missiles

Hypersonic Missiles

Sep 13, 2019

196.1 million

streams

3
Will We Talk?

Will We Talk?

Sep 13, 2019

136.0 million

streams

4
Homesick (with Sam Fender)

Homesick (with Sam Fender)

Jan 19, 2024

105.2 million

streams

5
Rein Me In

Rein Me In

Jun 20, 2025

101.9 million

streams

6
Spit Of You

Spit Of You

Sep 27, 2021

94.5 million

streams

7
People Watching

People Watching

Nov 18, 2024

91.9 million

streams

8
Play God

Play God

May 31, 2017

90.4 million

streams

9
Getting Started

Getting Started

Oct 8, 2021

79.2 million

streams

10
The Borders

The Borders

Sep 2, 2019

72.7 million

streams