Here’s a thing I believe strongly enough to build my whole 2026 release schedule around it: seasonal music matters.
There is a reason “All I Want for Christmas Is You” gets streamed a billion times every December. There is a reason summer playlists exist. There is a reason people reach for cozy acoustic music in October. We are seasonal creatures. We want music that matches what the air feels like outside.
And yet the music industry has historically been weird about this — acting like releasing something “seasonal” limits your audience or your shelf life. I think that’s backwards. The songs with the longest lives are often the ones that come back around every single year because they ARE that season.
My Thanksgiving album comes back every November. My Christmas albums come back every December. Summer State of Mind will come back every summer. The Crisp Fall Air album I’m putting the finishing touches on right now? That’ll come back every September for years.
Catalog. Legacy. The long game.
I’m not trying to have one hit song. I’m trying to build a library of music that accompanies people through the whole year, every year, for the rest of their lives. That’s the goal. That’s always been the goal.
September is coming faster than you think, and the fall album is beautiful. I’ll start talking about it more as we get closer. But know that it’s coming, it’s warm and golden and just a little melancholy the way fall always is, and I cannot wait for you to wrap yourself in it.
Follow me on streaming so you’ve got all the seasonal music in one place when the time comes. 🍂
