A year and a half after her break-through single No Roots, and exactly one year after I saw her promising performance at showcase festival ESNS, Alice Merton delivers her debut album Mint. Next to No Roots, her singles Lash Out, Why So Serious and Funny Business are present, so it’s definitely worth your time.

The first song you’ll hear when you listen to the album is Learn To Live. A great track, with the same kind of thumping bass line as the one that made the German singer a star in the rest of Europe. This is Alice Merton in mint condition, ready for the rest of the world!

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Alice Merton is a good example of an artist who’s early successes first became visible in the European Border Breakers Chart. Former Carte Blanche Music Wildcard No Roots became a pan-European hit in the autumn of 2017, that later also crossed over to the United States. The track won her a European Border Breakers Award and I eagerly awaited more hits. Second single Hit The Ground Running came out last year and Lash Out followed this year. Both very good singles as well, but not as successful as her debut.

For the release of her new single, Merton freed herself from her distribution deal with major Sony and decided to walk the indie path. May that give this talented artist the success she deserves!

Why So Serious is about making the most of every day and was written by Merton in response to the awareness she had to write a new hit to follow up on the accomplishments of No Roots. “I was a little upset that everyone would ask if the next song would be as successful as No Roots. And then I thought, screw this! I’m happy, I have the time of my life, so: why so serious?”

Alice Merton’s eagerly awaited debut album, entitled Mint, will be out in January 2019.

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Chances are, you first read about Alice Merton on Carte Blanche Music (although I’m aware success has many fathers). Anyway, I instantly liked her debut single No Roots and made it Wildcard. It became a pan-European hit – landing the German singer a European Border Breakers Award – and has just entered Billboard’s Hot 100.

The follow-up single took its title too literally and Hit The Ground Running, but I think she could hit the bull’s eye again with this third single, Lash Out. And after seeing her show at the ESNS festival, last January, I can tell you there is plenty more where this is coming from. Alice Merton is a potential future superstar.

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Talking about a dream debut… Alice Merton’s first single No Roots has already been a huge hit east and south of her home country Germany, and is now crossing the west border as well, causing the song to go up to a new peak position of #8 in the European Border Breakers Chart. It looks like No Roots is going to conquer the whole of Europe, slowly but surely…

In the territories that were first to discover her, the follow up single is out already. Hit The Ground Running is also part of Merton’s debut EP No Roots. The song has big shoes to fill, but will certainly profit from the profile she built with her first hit. It’s already ‘bubbling under’ at #4 in the Tips for the EBBChart.

Some songs take longer to make a wide impact than others. But once they kick in, they kick in hard… No Roots is such a song.

Alice Merton was born in Germany from a German father and a British mother. She grew up in Canada however. When she was 13 she came back to Germany, but spent a lot of time in the UK as well, where her parents had gone and live. Finally, she attended the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim and started her career from Germany. No wonder her debut single is called No Roots… The song describes her feeling to not have a real home.

Earlier this year, the song was a huge hit in her country of birth, Austria and Luxembourg, reaching the Top 3 in all three countries. And now, all of a sudden, the track is crossing over to Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Lithuania, Macedonia and Slovenia, causing it to enter the European Border Breakers Chart at #11.  No wonder, because it’s a great song, that deserves to finally become the pan European hit it should have been already.