2025 recap
2025 is the year Angelina turned 19. In this year she became again an independend artist, a planned appearance in Norway's part of the Eurovision Song Contest fell through, and her first solo full-length album, Secret of the Soul, was released.
Recap
Recording
Independent again
Angelina apparently got independent again, likely by early in January+, but confirmed only in May.
Unreleased older songs teased
Throughout the first half of the year, she and Mery teased various older unreleaseed songs, but those were as of early 2026 not released.
Original albums with lyrics by Mery
Plans to publish those older songs were apparently canceled or postponed in July, when Mery announced an new album without the help of external songwriters, just with songs written by Angelina with lyrics based on Mery's poems.
Secret of the Soul
During the third quarter, they recorded this album, again with the help of her music director Anthony Harvey, and likely with musicians of which some are known from her 2024 & 2026 concerts. It was then released as Secret of the Soul on 2025-09-09. It was not released on YouTube or YouTube Music, but on all other major music platforms for purchase and streaming.
Secret of the Star
Recording likely commenced right away with songs for her 7-track Secret of the Star Christmas album, which was released on 2025-11-18, and also was based on the same collaboration between Angelina and Mery. While no videos were uploaded to YouTube, the album was released on YouTube Music and thus shows automatically up on a "Release - Topic" channel↗, which however was not linked to Angelina's YouTube channel.
No TV appearances nor concerts
Melodi Grand Prix participation canceled
While she was set to participate in Melodi Grand Prix, which is the Norwegian selection contest to determine the Norwegian entry act into the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), she canceled her participation reportedly in early January.[1]
Concert announced for January 2026
While she had no concerts in 2025, there was an early announcement in June[2] for a concert in Las Vegas some time in January of the following year, which then took place on 2026-01-31 at the same stage as in 2024.
Other activities
Simlish version of "Our Time"
A Simlish language version of "Our Time" 🞂 ↗ was released in early March as part of an "The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies extension pack" for the The Sims 4 computer game.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't movie
"Diamond" from her Old Enough EP is used in the Now You See Me: Now You Don't+ 🞂 ↗ movie, which started to play in cinemas in mid November.
Online Christmas Show
In December, on the day before Christmas eve she had an Online Christmas Show, consisting essentially of music videos showing a live band performing with her the seven songs from her latest Christmas album Secret of the Star, but with all the audio coming from the recorded album tracks. There was also a small interview section in the middle. Remarkebly, despite departing from Republic Records earlier in the year, this was filmed in the Republic Records studio, with Rob Christie being the MC.
References
- ↑ This VG article states that Angelina's lawyer already submitted the notification on 2025-01-06: VG.no (2025-02-07). MGP: NRK krever 130.000 kroner av deltager↗ [in Norwegian] [English: MGP: NRK demands 130,000 kroner from participant]. Accessed 2025-02-08..
- ↑ Philip Ashley on Facebook↗. Accessed 2026-03-11.
