Animal Crossing: New Horizonshas become somewhat of a phenomenon as of late. Even outside of the gaming industry,massive mainstream celebrities like Elijah Woodare getting sucked into the joyful world of talking animals living on a deserted island.
Fairly recently, Hollywood writer Gary Whitta started aNew Horizonsoriented talk show called Animal Talking. Now, during the conclusion of the show’s season finale he revealed that season two will debut brand new music from artists Shaggy and Sting.
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The amount of success thatAnimal Crossing: New Horizonshas seen within the past few months is absolutely staggering. WhileAnimal Crossinghas always sold fairly well for Nintendo, with a major increase in popularity coming from the previous 3DS titleNew Leaf, the sales figures forNew Horizonsare incredible. Just a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo announced thatNew Horizonsbecame the fastest-selling game on the Switch, selling around 11.77 million copies in its first 11 days. Naturally, all manner of people are playing the game right now.
Even mainstream celebrities are enjoying the relaxation and soothing atmosphere ofNew Horizons, with some even creating content centered around the game. As mentioned above, Gary Whitta started hisNew Horizonsthemed talk show mid-April. The show is all captured using in-game footage, where Whitta has guests on to talk about their experiences with the game and even give tours of their islands. Whitta has had guests on like Elijah Wood, T-Pain, and evensigned Danny Trejo to be a regular guest. Now Whitta has announced plans to debut brand new music from artists Shaggy and Sting early on during Season Two of the show.
During the show Whitta commented on the announcement expressing his own disbelief that he was able to land this opportunity. For those who may not know, Shaggy is a Jamaican reggae musician most well known for his songs “Wasn’t Me” and “Boombastic.” Sting is famous for being the lead singer, songwriter and bassist for the Police, until moving onto a solo career in 1985. Funnily enough, this isn’t the first live music-performance having to do withNew Horizons, as thegame’s official musician’s played the game’s main themelive but in separate locations during quarantine.
Still, Whitta booking two prolific musicians to debut brand new music during a video game talk show is still a very impressive and unique feat. Shaggy will be performing on the show on June 1 while Sting will debut his music later on June 8. It seems the popularity ofNew Horizonsis extremely far-reaching. Recently it was unsurprisingly confirmed that the game was alsoJapan’s best-selling Switch game ever.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available for the Switch.
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