Yungblud

• 1. Life on Mars

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  Yungblud is the stage name of Dominic Richard Harrison, an English musician and actor. On the 18th of February 2021, his live cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" was chosen as a soundtrack for NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars. It was a fitting honour for a performer who has spent his career refusing to sit still. Over a few years he has gone from television bit parts to the top of the UK album chart. Along the way he has collaborated with some of rock's best-known names, and he has used his stage to speak about politics and his own mental health. Where did that energy come from, and who helped steer it? What do the songs actually argue about? And what does he say when the microphone is his?

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• 2. A Troublesome Student

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  Dominic Richard Harrison was born on the 5th of August 1997 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to Samantha and Justin Harrison. He grew up with two younger sisters, Jemima and Isobel.

  Harrison was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, at a young age. Appropriate support was lacking, and that made him a troublesome student. By his own account he was an opinionated child whose energetic nature people often misunderstood.

  A dare from a friend ended with his suspension from Ackworth School. The dare was to moon his mathematics teacher, and he went through with it.

  In 2015 Harrison quit the Arts Educational Schools, London, where he had enrolled. He objected to what he called its "painting by numbers" approach to creativity.

  Acting came before music. In 2015 he played Matt in one episode of the TV series Emmerdale, and in 2016 he played Oz in six episodes of The Lodge.

  The first single released under the name Yungblud arrived on the 7th of April 2017. It was called "King Charles".

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• 3. Songs With Subjects

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  On the 15th of September 2017, Yungblud released "I Love You, Will You Marry Me", a song about a dark, modern-day love story. On the 10th of November 2017 came "Tin Pan Boy". It deals with a construction project on Tin Pan Alley, a musical hotspot in London.

  Those singles, along with "King Charles", landed on his debut EP, Yungblud, on the 19th of January 2018. The EP title is stylised in all capitals. Its track "Polygraph Eyes" took on a much heavier subject, sexual assault against girls.

  Speaking to Harper's Bazaar, he explained why a man should sing it. He felt it needed to be spoken about from a male perspective. His stated aim was to dilute and smash the "lad mentality" that society has so widely accepted. The music video reached YouTube on the 14th of March 2018.

  In August 2018, the video for "Falling Skies", featuring Charlotte Lawrence, was released from the season 2 soundtrack of Netflix's series 13 Reasons Why.

  On the 14th of February 2019 came "11 Minutes", made with Halsey and Travis Barker and released alongside its music video. Its lyrics describe a relationship that fails because of self-sabotage.

  "Parents" followed on the 24th of May 2019 as the first single from The Underrated Youth EP. Yungblud described it as a song about individualism.

  On the 31st of October 2019, the video for "Die a Little" arrived, again from the 13 Reasons Why soundtrack. It was meant to take a stand for mental health awareness, a subject he would soon discuss about himself in public.

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• 4. Famous Friends

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  On the 7th of June 2019, "I Think I'm Okay" was released by Machine Gun Kelly, Harrison and Travis Barker. Weeks later, on the 26th of July 2019, Yungblud appeared on the soundtrack of Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw. His contribution was a cover of Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle".

  On the 29th of July 2019, BBC Radio 1 premiered "Hope For the Underrated Youth" on Annie Mac's Future Sounds. Annie Mac named it her Hottest Record in the World.

  In October 2019 came "Original Me", featuring Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons. The pair performed it live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on the 23rd of October.

  Blackbear told Capital FM that he had a collaboration with Yungblud and Marshmello. It turned out to be "Tongue Tied", released on the 13th of November alongside a YouTube music video starring Joey King.

  The friendship that mattered most, though, was with Ozzy Osbourne, who became a close mentor. For the 2022 video of "The Funeral", released on the 11th of March 2022, Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne both took roles. During the filming, Ozzy gave Yungblud a gift, a piece of jewellery that Yungblud would repay years later.

  The moment came on the 5th of July 2025 at Villa Park, Birmingham. Yungblud performed a cover of "Changes" at Osbourne's final Black Sabbath concert, called Back to the Beginning. Backstage, he gave Osbourne a cross necklace of sterling silver and gold, set with diamonds. After Osbourne died, Yungblud called him "the greatest of all time".

  On the 18th of July 2025, Yungblud released the performance as a charity single. All proceeds went to Acorns Children's Hospice, Birmingham Children's Hospital, and Cure Parkinson's. It debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.

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• 5. Records and Tours

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  On the 6th of July 2018, Yungblud released his first album, 21st Century Liability. That same month he headed to the United States for several dates as part of Vans Warped Tour. On the 10th of August he followed the album with Yungblud (Unplugged), an EP of seven acoustic versions of its songs.

  From the 20th of September 2018 to the 20th of April 2019, he toured the album. Arrested Youth joined the American dates, and Carlie Hanson joined the UK and European dates. Earlier, from the 12th to the 30th of March 2018, he had supported K.Flay on her Everywhere Is Somewhere tour.

  His first live album, Yungblud (Live in Atlanta), appeared on the 22nd of March 2019. From the 3rd of May to the 31st of August 2019, he headlined the Don't Wanna Be a Loner tour, which included some festival dates. The Underrated Youth EP finally came out on the 18th of October 2019, after delays.

  The second studio album, Weird!, was originally set for the 13th of November 2020. It was pushed back to the 4th of December 2020. The title track had come out on the 22nd of April, and "Strawberry Lipstick" followed on the 16th of July. Weird! peaked at the top of the UK Albums Chart and reached number 75 on the US Billboard 200.

  On the 19th of August 2021, "Fleabag" charted at number 78 in the UK. His third album, titled Yungblud like his first EP, was announced during a livestream on the 17th of May 2022. Its singles included "Memories", with American singer Willow, on the 6th of May. "Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today" followed on the 29th of June.

  "Tissues" arrived on the 30th of August 2022 and notably samples "Close to Me" by the Cure. The album came out on the 2nd of September 2022. It reached number 1 on the UK Album Charts, number 45 on the Billboard 200, and number 7 on the U.S. Top Rock Albums chart.

  On the 18th of March 2025, he released "Hello Heaven, Hello", the first single from his fourth studio album, Idols. "Lovesick Lullaby" and "Zombie" followed. Idols was released on the 20th of June through Locomotion Recordings and Capitol Records. It was the first half of a two-part project set to finish the same year.

  On the 15th of November 2025, Yungblud announced he had to cancel his remaining 2025 tour dates because of health issues. In the spring and summer of 2026, he continued the IDOLS world tour in the UK and USA, with The Warning as support.

  Awards have followed the records. In 2019, the NME Awards nominated him in four categories and he won Best Music Video for "Original Me". Listings also show him in 2020 for the MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards, plus the Attitude Awards Gamechanger honour. In 2021 he appeared for British Male Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards, and in 2022 for Best Live Act at the O2 Silver Clef Awards and Best International New Act at the Los 40 Music Awards. The most recent entries are three 2026 Grammy categories: Best Rock Performance for "Changes", Best Rock Song for "Zombie", and Best Rock Album for Idols.

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• 6. Stunts and Screens

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  On the 30th of May 2023, Yungblud began teasing a new song by sending fans letters in the mail. The letters gave instructions to go to three places: Los Angeles, London, and Rock am Ring in Germany. At each, fans found a car spray painted with the word "Lowlife" and could hear a snippet of the song. The full track was released on the 7th of June 2023, shortly after he performed at Coachella 2023.

  The pandemic forced a different kind of showmanship. On the 4th of March 2020, he announced the cancellation of his Asia tour because of COVID-19. Coachella's organisers soon postponed the festival from April to October. With his own shows gone, he invented the Yungblud show to give fans a concert experience.

  On the 9th of January 2021, he joined the online event "A Bowie Celebration: Just for One Day", where he covered "Life on Mars?".

  In November 2021, it was announced that he would release his first short film, based on his 2020 song "Mars". Mercury Studios and Interscope Films collaborated on it, and he directed it. It follows a fan named Charlie Acaster, who was struggling to convince her parents that she is transgender. He had also appeared as himself in a 2019 short film, Lonely Together.

  On the 17th of May 2019, Yungblud announced a comic book called "Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Club", planned for release in October 2019. He attended MCM Comic Con on the 25th of October 2019 to promote it.

  His music videos kept recruiting guests. The "Memories" video, released on the 6th of May 2022, featured the YouTuber and Twitch streamer Valkyrae. The video for "Zombie" starred the actress Florence Pugh. On the 29th of March 2024, he released "Abyss", the opening theme of the Kaiju No. 8 anime series.

  In 2021 he also appeared as himself in an episode of From the Top: Olympians and Rockstars, titled "Sky Brown and Yungblud". The year 2025 brought a documentary, Yungblud. Are You Ready, Boy?, in which he again plays himself.

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• 7. Speaking Out

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  On the 24th of March 2018, Yungblud attended the March for Our Lives rally, a student-led demonstration against gun violence. He live-streamed the event for his followers.

  On the 30th of May 2020, he went to the George Floyd protests for Black Lives Matter in California. He and Halsey helped give first aid to some of the protesters.

  In September 2021, he joined several singer-songwriters in opposing the Texas Heartbeat Act, which banned abortion in Texas after around six weeks of pregnancy. He said, "The right to your body is yours and yours alone. It makes me sick and it makes me really disgusted that people sit there and they take away that choice and they take away that right."

  On the 24th of September 2022, he played the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware. From the stage he spoke about the death of Mahsa Amini and voiced support for the protests that followed in Iran.

  On the 15th of January 2026, he returned to the subject during a show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He addressed the 2025-2026 Iranian protests and the 2026 Iran massacres. With the country in an Internet blackout, he urged the crowd to speak out and to be a light for the Iranian people.

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• 8. Influences and Inner Life

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  Critics have placed Yungblud's music in alternative rock, pop-punk, pop rock, and hip-hop. His own list of influences is just as mixed. He cites Arctic Monkeys and Alex Turner, The Beatles, The Cure and Robert Smith, Nirvana, and Avril Lavigne. He adds the Clash, Soundgarden, My Chemical Romance, and Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga, Lorde, Post Malone, Kanye West, Eminem, and Katy Perry complete the list.

  He has also namechecked singers Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Elton John. Other names include the Sex Pistols, Chrissie Hynde, and Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

  In August 2018, Yungblud tweeted that he has insomnia. In February 2020, he told the Evening Standard that he had attempted suicide twice. He said it came after a series of positive and negative events in his career.

  In August 2019, he described himself to Attitude as sexually fluid. In another interview with the magazine in December 2020, he described himself as pansexual and polyamorous.

  He was in a relationship with the American singer Halsey for several months, and she confirmed the break-up in October 2019. On Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast in November 2020, he said they split because they worked better as friends.

  In June 2021, he announced that he was dating the American singer and fashion designer Jesse Jo Stark.

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