Guy Sebastian - 100 Times Around the Sun (2025) Hi-Res

Guy Sebastian refers to his 10th studio record as his “sunshine album”. “My last album T. R. U. T. H. was dealing with loss and grief and with inner strength and not letting people put a ceiling over what you can achieve in life. There was some subject matter that was a bit heavy,” the singer tells Apple Music. “This album is a realisation that heaviness doesn’t go away, and grief doesn’t go away. Challenges don’t go away. But neither do the good times. Neither does making great memories that last a lifetime; neither does loving the people in your life. I wanted to write an album that reminded me of that. It really is an album to inspire me to love my people more and to enjoy life more. Getting back to joy and joyful living.”

Musically, 100 Times Around the Sun matches that joie de vivre, buoyed by Stevie Wonder-esque stabs of joyful soul and funk (“Afterlife”), ’70s disco (the title track, “Maybe”) and uplifting balladry (“The Keys”). Written across a four-year period, Sebastian penned over 100 songs in Sydney, Bali, Nashville and Los Angeles, working with writers such as Oak Felder (Sabrina Carpenter, Lizzo) on “I Chose Good” and Jamie Hartman (Lewis Capaldi, Kylie Minogue) on the title track. “The thing that makes me most proud is how much effort went into the album,” he offers. “I could not have given more of myself.”