Jamie McIntyre - Irish Artist Of The Week

Galway songwriter Jamie McIntyre has been riding the crest of a wave this past year with his 2024 summer single “Over Galway Town” becoming a viral smash hit amassing over 4 million streams on Spotify sitting amongst some of the world’s biggest artists in the viral charts. Last year, he was selected by Gavin James to join him as support in Paris on his European tour as part of Three’s City Stages initiative which also led to him working with Imelda May and performing at Electric Picnic, followed by performances with Liverpool songwriter Jamie Webster on his sold out shows at 3Olympia in Dublin and The Telegraph Building in Belfast. The success of “Over Galway Town” has seen his music reach to far flung places across the globe and shows no signs of slowing down. 2025 has continued that trajectory with McIntyre’s debut Irish tour selling out shows in Dublin, Limerick and his hometown of Galway. His recent EP, “Chapter 23”, continues to grow his following with songs like “West is Home” and “Grá” quickly becoming fan favourites, amassing over 850k streams since its release. Jamie's single ‘Outside the city’ seems to already be a fan favourite gaining over 250k streams in the first 2 months of release. And his single ‘Melbourne’ also seems to be a fan favourite gaining over 200,000 in the first three weeks of release. Oileáin Árann is a song about leaving the place you are from and heading to the Aran islands in search of some peace from someone who has left you broken hearted. The song speaks about how I personally have gone onto better things since that person has left my life and realising whilst out on Oileáin Árann that there more to life than this person who didn’t appreciate you as much as you thought they did or should.