Dan + Shay Always Create Anticipation And Excitement When They Release New Music

Dan + Shay released their new single “Save Me The Trouble” a little over two years ago on July 14, 2023. Coming up on September 15, it will have been two years since the duo released their Bigger Houses album. At the end of May, 2025 months via their Instagram post, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney hinted that they have been working on new music. However, they did not say when some of the new music would be coming out. 

While I do not know yet when exactly a new single or a handful of songs will be released, I have a feeling that it will be sooner rather than later. The duo always put their entire hearts and souls into all that they do. I need to stay patient and the wait for the new music will be worth it.

I became a Dan + Shay fan about a week before their debut album was released. While I was in love with the entire project and bought a physical copy of it shortly after it was released, I did not feel as much of the anticipation and excitement of it coming out like I did for their second through fifth albums. I think one reason behind this was I had just become a fan and I was grateful to have had the opportunity to listen to the entire album on Spotify for free the week prior to its release. There was no waiting time for me to hear the new album, as I had already been exposed to it. Do not  get me wrong,  I definitely was excited to play my new CD and there was some anticipation to go out and buy it, but not as much as I felt later on.

When Smyers and Mooney released their next new singles followed by their full albums (the first one being “From The Ground Up” on February 5, 2016, which would be on their Obsessed  album that came out on April 13, 2016), it felt like it was Christmas morning each time. My anticipation and excitement to hear the new singles and eventually the new albums was incredibly high! I have always stayed awake until midnight to hear the new song or album for the first time. And then I listened to the new song(s) or entire album on repeat several times until I got really tired. The duo’s new music has always been worth it to stay up until the wee hours of the morning for. I know I will continue to do it as long as they continue to put out new batches of music!

I will detail my past first listening experiences of their singles singles and albums in future posts. And I hope that very soon I will be able to post about my anticipation and excitement about Dan + Shay’s next chapter of music coming out!