Delta Goodrem is capitalising on her Eurovision hype, with the announcement of her next studio album Pure overnight.
Goodrem, who will represent Australia at this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, will release her seventh studio album on November 6.
It’ll mark the end of her longest gap between records – five and a half years since she dropped her sixth studio album, 2021’s Bridge Over Troubled Dreams, which hit number one on the ARIA charts.
Since then, Goodrem’s chart fortunes have wavered compared to her record-breaking Born To Try days – standalone singles Back To Your Heart and Hearts On The Run failed to chart – but she’s about to perform to one of the biggest global audiences of her career with her anthemic Eurovision entry Eclipse.
Goodrem will perform in this year’s second semi-final, airing locally on SBS from 5am on Friday morning. Last year’s Aussie entry Go-Jo failed to progress beyond the semi-final, but it’d be a major upset if Goodrem suffered the same fate: Not only is she arguably the biggest star we’ve sent to the contest, her entry is also sitting in the top five among the betting odds to win the whole thing (Finland is currently the favourite to win).
Assuming Goodrem does make it through the semi-final, she will then compete in the weekend’s Eurovision grand final, which will air locally on SBS from 5am on Sunday. I’ll be live blogging the event here on news.com.au on Sunday morning too (see you there, fellow earlybird Eurovision tragics).
Australia has competed in Eurovision 10 times since 2015, and a decade in, we have a habit of either doing really well or really badly: We’ve placed in the top 10 five separate times, but we’ve also failed to progress to the grand final three times.
The Aussie showing to beat is from our second year in the contest, 2016, when Dami Im came second with The Sound of Silence.
Meanwhile, six months out, few details have been released for Goodrem’s next album, save for the sparkly cover and the fact that it’ll have sixteen songs (with Eclipse as track 11).
In a statement released overnight, Goodrem said that Pure is “an album I’ve been creating and living through over the past few years, and it truly feels like a return to myself and the heart of who I am as an artist.”
“It holds some of my biggest singalongs, my most vulnerable moments, and brings in all the elements I love most in music – from intimate classical piano pieces to uplifting cinematic anthems,” she said.
