{"id":2425550,"date":"2026-05-20T22:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2425550"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:39:02","slug":"budjerah-shares-romantic-new-single-could-i-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/budjerah-shares-romantic-new-single-could-i-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Budjerah Shares Romantic New Single &#8216;Could I Be&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Budjerah has shared another taste of his new album.<\/p>\n<p>Budjerah <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/budjerah-debut-album-gentleman-announcement-92697\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced his long-awaited debut album<\/a>, <em>Gentleman<\/em>, in March, with the record set to drop on July 24th via Warner Music Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It features new single \u201cCould I Be\u201d, out today, a feel-good bop which channels \u201900s pop and R&amp;B (listen below).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c\u2018Could I Be\u2019 is about when you realise that you\u2019re falling in love,\u201d Budjerah explains. \u201cLove can be unexpected and sudden. It\u2019s a fun uptempo track with lots of sweet falsettos and high notes. There\u2019s some inspiration from \u201970s R&amp;B and soul music, stuff that my family would play often when I was little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Gentleman<\/em> also features recent singles \u201cWant You Back\u201d and the title track, the latter of which was written\u00a0by songwriting heavyweights Autumn Rowe (Alexis Jordan, Kylie Minogue), Kizzo Keaz (Jon Batiste, Ne-Yo), and Philip Lawrence (Bruno Mars).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Could I Be\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5anCWZImCKaZgbQhSCS1oH?si=38d699ca95004591&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Of the album, <span class=\"il\">Budjerah<\/span> says, \u201c<em>Gentleman<\/em> is my debut album and It\u2019s inspired by who I wanted to be when I was growing up. This album was almost a four-year process for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBetween my life at home and life on the road, I experienced so much change and growth. Chasing my dreams I faced new challenges which helped me understand who I wanted to be. Every song on this album holds a piece of me. I hope little <span class=\"il\">Budjerah<\/span> is proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amassing a staggering 60 million combined career streams to date, and platinum single \u201cTherapy\u201d achieving over 18.8 million on Spotify, Budjerah already a household name in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The 2x ARIA Award winner (Breakthrough Artist in 2021 and Best Soul\/R&amp;B Release in 2022) has been nominated for 15 ARIAs in total, and has also received an APRA Award (Most Performed R&amp;B \/ Soul Work for \u201cHigher\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 he was named <em>GQ Australia\u2019<\/em>s Breakthrough Artist, and in 2023 he opened for Ed Sheeran on his sold-out stadium tour after collaborating with Sheeran on \u201c2Step\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of the 2024 single \u201cIs It Ever Gonna Make Sense\u201d, Budjerah embarked on a national headline tour and also performed at the 2024 ARIA Awards with CYRIL and Becca Hatch<\/p>\n<p><em>Budjerah\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/5anCWZImCKaZgbQhSCS1oH?si=c4e947d5a6964037\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCould I Be\u201d<\/a> is out now. Gentleman is out July 24th via Warner Music Australia (pre-save\/pre-order <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/budjerah.lnk.to\/GentlemanAlbum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budjerah has shared another taste of his new album. Budjerah announced his long-awaited debut album, Gentleman, in March, with the record set to drop on July 24th via Warner Music Australia. It features new single \u201cCould I Be\u201d, out today, a feel-good bop which channels \u201900s pop and R&amp;B (listen below). \u201c\u2018Could I Be\u2019 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[379527,475498,475499,475500,475501,475502,475503],"class_list":["post-2425550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-budjerah","tag-budjerah-album","tag-budjerah-could-i-be","tag-budjerah-gentleman","tag-budjerah-music","tag-budjerah-single","tag-could-i-be"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Budjerah-Shares-Romantic-New-Single-Could-I-Be.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425552,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425550\/revisions\/2425552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}