Don’t Go

“Don’t Go” is a song recorded by Nick Leight for his third studio album “Cosmic”. The song features American singer-songwriter Halsey and was released on August 23, 2019 as the lead single for “Cosmic”.

Background
The song was written by Nick Leight, Halsey, Greg Kurstin and Louis Bell. The song was first teased in early July when Leight posted a picture on social media of him and Halsey in the studio. Fans first suspected Leight to be featured on Halsey’s upcoming album, since she just released a new song. The song was finally announced on August 5, 2019 via Leight’s social media. In an interview, Leight later said that the song was written in early 2019 and was actually never supposed to be part of his then upcoming album “Cosmic”. “At that point the album had a completely different creative direction”, he said, “and it was only ever supposed to be a seperate single”. After writing more songs for Cosmic in the summer of 2019, Leight reconsidered and decided to add the song to the album and use it as a lead single.

Release and promotion
The song was released on August 23, 2019. It received immediate radio play and was promoted heavily but Leight’s record label, Columbia. Several billboards all around the world announced the single, with Leight and Halsey standing back to back to a starry background of outer space. They performed the song together for the first time on August 26, 2019, three days after its release, at the MTV Video Music Awards in Newark, Jersey.