{"id":11163,"date":"2020-11-21T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2020-11-21T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:09:10","slug":"samthing-soweto-and-demthuda-drop-new-single-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/samthing-soweto-and-demthuda-drop-new-single-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Samthing Soweto And DeMthuda Drop New Single, &#8220;Weekend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SamethingSoweto-DeMthuda-Weekend.jpg?resize=450%2C450\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SamethingSoweto-DeMthuda-Weekend.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SamethingSoweto-DeMthuda-Weekend.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SamethingSoweto-DeMthuda-Weekend.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today multi award winning singer, songwriter, producer and composer, Samthing Soweto, and certified hit maker, DeMthuda, officially kick off summer 2020 with their new single \u2018Weekend\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When speaking about the inspiration behind the song, the talented vocalist simply said:&nbsp;<em>\u201cI believe in alone time. You can find yourself doing a lot of things for people throughout the week, but the weekend is mine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the year, Samthing Soweto was the only artist to feature twice on Cassper Nyovest\u2019s album \u2018Any Minute Now\u2019 with fan favourite \u2018Friday Night\u2019 and \u2018Ngwanesu\u2019. The rapper took to Twitter to express how he felt about working with the talented musician:&nbsp;<em>\u201cSamthing Soweto is an amazing artist. A soothing voice and a special talent. Been meaning to work with him and he blessed me tonight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 saw Samthing Soweto dominate charts with the hit single \u2018Amantombazane\u2019 off the Scorpion Kings\u2019 self-titled album. He then officially established himself as a household name with the success of \u2018Akulaleki\u2019 featuring Sha Sha (certified platinum), \u2018AmaDM\u2019 featuring MFR Souls, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small; and \u2018Lotto\u2019 featuring Mlindo the Vocalist. The record breaking singing sensation broke the South African Apple Music record for the highest number of users \u201cpre-adding\u201d his debut album \u201cIsiphithiphithi\u201d to their personal libraries before the official launch; while simultaneously holding the number one spot with his single \u2018Akulaleki\u2019. This South African record was previously held by international superstar Billie Eilish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would have never been summer without Samthing Soweto\u2019s voice playing on long drives home, in cars passing by, with friends or at the festive season\u2019s biggest events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stream or Download \u2018Weekend\u2019 here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/platoon.lnk.to\/weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">platoon.lnk.to\/weekend<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today multi award winning singer, songwriter, producer and composer, Samthing Soweto, and certified hit maker, DeMthuda, officially kick off summer 2020 with their new single \u2018Weekend\u2019. When speaking about the inspiration behind the song, the talented vocalist simply said:&nbsp;\u201cI believe in alone time. You can find yourself doing a lot of things for people throughout&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/samthing-soweto-and-demthuda-drop-new-single-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samthing Soweto And DeMthuda Drop New Single, &#8220;Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}