Malcolm Todd released a new single, “I Saw Your Face,” on Thursday, pairing the song with a music video he co-directed with Aidan Cullen. The release lands as Todd keeps pushing deeper into a breakout year that has already brought chart action, a sold-out international run and a growing catalog of songs turning up far beyond his core fan base.
The new track is framed as a meditation on ending a relationship you know is wrong and grieving it anyway, while the video comments on masculinity unraveling. Todd and Cullen lean into that idea without flattening it, giving the clip a sharp visual edge that matches the song’s bruised tone. The record also arrives with the sense that Todd is not pausing between chapters so much as speeding through them.
That pace matters because Todd, 22, has spent the past two years building a run that is rare even by breakout standards. His self-titled debut album has now accumulated more than 600 million global streams since last year, while the Platinum “Chest Pain (I Love)” delivered his first Billboard Hot 100 entry and has gone on to collect over 350 million streams worldwide. The 2024 mixtape “Sweet Boy” added three gold singles, including “Earrings,” which reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, hit number 6 on the Spotify US Charts and broke into the top 50 globally.
Before this release, Todd kicked off 2026 with “Breathe,” his highest debut yet, and the song reached the top 50 on Spotify on its first day. Earlier in the year, Don Toliver sampled “Chest Pain (I Love)” on “E85,” which climbed to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and now leads the Hot Rap Songs chart. That kind of spillover is part of what has made Todd impossible to treat as a one-song story.
The live side has kept pace. Todd finished the sold-out Wholesome Rockstar Tour in 2025, moving more than 100,000 tickets across a run that also took him to Camp Flog Gnaw, Pitchfork Paris, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. He has also made his debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and he is already booked for Outside Lands and Osheaga in 2026. “I Saw Your Face” is less a standalone drop than another signal that the next stretch is already under way.
