August 28, 2025

Samia celebrates The Baby’s 5th Anniversary

Samia continues to ride an insane wave of online attention from her gut-wrenching NPR Tiny Desk performance of The Baby album-opener “Pool.” There are quite literally hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos using the audio, and fans old and new have been asking for the Tiny Desk songs on streaming ever since the clip went viral in late July.

Today we mark the fifth anniversary of her debut record with the announcement a special digital-only edition featuring performances from the NPR Tiny Desk Concert (thanks to NPR Music for helping make this happen!), alongside previously-released artist covers and remixes from the likes of Bartees Strange, Palehound, Anjimile, Briston Maroney, Christian Lee Hutson and more from The Baby Reimagined.

The collection is out September 5th – pre-save here.

Samia on the success of “Pool” and the anniversary of The Baby: “Tiny Desk is like the GRAMMY’s to me – I still can’t believe they let me do that. I was struggling to stay conscious during the concert but it was the honor of a lifetime. The NPR version of ‘Pool’ resonating online is just a giant cartoon cherry on top. I’m still proud of ‘The Baby’ five years later and feel grateful that it’s meant something to some people.”