2010–2012: ''America's Got Talent'' and debut studio album In 2010, at the age of 23, Stirling was a quarter-finalist on
season five of ''
America's Got Talent'', where she was described as a "
hip hop violinist". Dancing made a huge impact not only in her performances, but also with her music: "I loved dance music so I started with that and wrote 'Transcendence', 'Electric Daisy', and 'Spontaneous Me'." Stirling's performances were dubbed "electrifying" by the judges, and won the acclaim of the audience, but after she attempted to step up the dance level in her quarter-final performance, judge
Piers Morgan buzzed her. He told her: "You're not untalented, but you're not good enough, I don't think, to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time."
Sharon Osbourne commented: "You need to be in a group. ... What you're doing is not enough to fill a theater in Vegas." In her blog, Stirling confided: "I was devastated at the results ... It was painful, and a bit humiliating; however, I had to relearn where it was that I drew my strength." at the Studio at Webster Hall (also referred to as "The Basement") on May 16, 2012. This was also her first ever time performing with her drummer Drew Steen. 2012 Stirling has experimented in combining violin playing with hip hop and
dubstep. On June 21, Stirling received her first golden certification for her album,
Lindsey Stirling, in Germany, and in the next month, she earned golden certifications from Switzerland and Austria. On August 2, 2013,
Billboard announced that Stirling's studio album had sold more than 158,000 copies in the United States and that she was the second best-selling artist on the
Classical Crossover charts in 2013, behind
Andrea Bocelli's album
Passione. and in July, she joined
Nathan Pacheco, The Orchestra at
Temple Square and the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the 21,000-seat
LDS Conference Center in
Salt Lake City, UT for their annual
Pioneer Day concert where she performed
Scotland the Brave and
Simple Gifts. Stirling also announced her first tour dates in Australia, South Korea and Japan. Stirling's YouTube channel reached three million subscribers on August 31 and on September 4, after almost a year of touring, she completed her
first world tour with her last appearance in London. On September 12, Stirling performed at the Dreamball 2013 charity gala at Ritz Carlton in
Berlin, Germany. Two weeks later, Stirling announced on her website that she had started making her second album. In October 2013, Stirling announced that she would take part in season three of
Dance Showdown, a dance competition web series created by DanceOn in which the winner is awarded US$50,000. Stirling was the second of three finalists, but she did not win the fifty thousand dollars despite receiving critical acclaim on her three performances with her partner Anze Skrube. Almost a year after its official release, Stirling's self-titled studio album was re-released on October 29, 2013, as an exclusive deluxe version featuring newly recorded versions and remixes of her best-known songs such as "Crystallize", "Elements", and "Transcendence". Target carried four bonus tracks while all other retailers had two additional tracks. Stirling sold 10,000 copies of her extended-version album in the first week, a record for her, and her album surged from No. 79 to No. 23, its peak position in the
Billboard 200. Days earlier, she had performed on
Conan on October 24. On November 3, 2013, Stirling and Pentatonix's version of "
Radioactive" won a
YouTube Music Award in the category Response of the Year. Stirling also performed during the live-streamed event. On December 16, Stirling announced the first tour dates in Canada and U.S. on her 2014 World Tour; some pre-sales were sold out after the first day and the first concert to be sold out was in
Portland, Oregon, on January 29. Stirling appeared on several
Billboard 2013 year-end charts; notably, No. 3 on Classical Album Artists, No. 2 on Classical Albums, and No. 3 on Dance/Electronic Albums (both for
Lindsey Stirling). At the beginning of 2014, Stirling's self-titled album hit gold in Poland, received its first platinum certification in Germany and later on in Austria. Stirling received her first
RIAA gold certification on February 4 for her hit single "Crystallize". On February 26, Stirling released her debut album in France which entered the charts at number 17 selling 4,900 copies in its first week. On March 5, Stirling performed three concerts at the El Plaza Condesa in
Mexico City, her first concerts in Latin America. In 2014, Stirling was nominated for the
Echo music award in two categories: Crossover National/International and Newcomer International, receiving the Crossover National/International award on March 28. On March 12, 2014, Stirling posted a video announcing her second studio album,
Shatter Me, would be released in May. She also created a
PledgeMusic account where consumers could buy her new album, signed or not, and also exclusive items, such as signed posters, personalized videos, and even
Skype calls with Stirling herself. At the end of the first day, the signed
Shatter Me CD was already sold out. On March 25, Stirling officially released her first single from
Shatter Me, entitled "
Beyond the Veil", along with its accompanying music video. On April 3, Stirling posted that she collaborated with
Owl City for his fifth album. The song, "
Beautiful Times", was released on April 8. On April 23, 2014, Stirling released the second single from her upcoming album: "Shatter Me". The song, the album's title track, accumulated 1.3 million views on its first day online. The album was released in the U.S. on April 29 and in Europe on May 2. In the U.S., the album sold 56,000 copies in its first week and reached No. 2 on the
Billboard 200, becoming Stirling's biggest sales week ever. In Europe,
Shatter Me reached the Top 5 in Sweden and Germany and number one in Austria. On May 18, Stirling appeared on the
Billboard Music Awards where her debut album had been nominated in the category "Top Electronic/Dance Album". Stirling performed her first single "Beyond the Veil" during the ceremony. On May 13, 2014, Stirling performed in
San Diego, the first show of her
second world tour which totalled 77 shows, 48 in North America and 29 in Europe. This world tour was in support of her new album
Shatter Me. The crew consisted of Jason Gaviati and
Drew Steen (who had been part of her First World Tour) plus two new dancers: Stephen Jones and Pter Styles and choreographer Anže Škrube. On July 2,
Billboard reported that Stirling's second studio album
Shatter Me had been the third dance/electronic album to have its highest sales in the first half of the year (119,000), behind only
Daft Punk's
Random Access Memories and Lady Gaga's
Artpop. In the same chart, Stirling's debut studio album held sixth place with 108,000 copies sold in the first half of 2014. On July 27 Stirling's hit single "Crystallize" became her first music video to mark 100 million views. Six days later, on August 2, Stirling posted on her Twitter account that she had been nominated for her first ever
Teen Choice award. On August 6, Stirling returned after four years to ''America's Got Talent'' to perform with
Lzzy Hale their single "Shatter Me". In August, it was revealed that Stirling would be part of two collaborations. The first one was revealed on August 13, and was about Stirling collaborating for a second time with the
a cappella group Pentatonix for their third studio album
PTX, Vol. III on the song "
Papaoutai", by
Stromae. The second collaboration was revealed nine days later, on August 22, when it was announced Stirling had recorded a song with singer
Jessie J for J's upcoming album
Sweet Talker. On September 14, it was announced that Stirling would join a YouTube marketing campaign for a new selection of
Lindt chocolate candy bars. and Classical Album Artists. Her second studio album also appeared tenth in the year-end charts of independent albums and fourth in Dance/Electronic Albums. Stirling had the second position in the Dance/Electronic Album Artists and fifth in the charts of independent artist and Top dance/electronic artists.
2015–2018: The Only Pirate at the Party, Brave Enough, Dancing with the Stars and Warmer in the Winter On January 9, 2015, Stirling was featured on the Forbes list '30 Under 30' as one of the few musicians featured in the top thirty of recognized celebrities under the age of thirty. On the same day
Billboard announced that
Shatter Me and
Lindsey Stirling had reached the first and second positions as the best-selling dance-electronic albums in 2014. On February 7, 2015, Stirling performed at the Grammy Foundation's 17th annual Legacy Concert. A few days later, Stirling announced that public television would be airing her shows from London under the name
Lindsey Stirling: Live from London, starting in March. It was later added that the shows would also air in the U.S. in April 2015 as part of her
Shatter Me World Tour On March 2, it was announced that Stirling had won a
YouTube Music Award among other forty-nine artists. The fifty selected artists were the ones with biggest growth in views, subscribers and engagement over the last six months. This is Stirling's second YouTube Music Award. On March 23, the 2015 YouTube Music Awards were broadcast online, with thirteen artists releasing original music videos. Stirling released the music video for "Take Flight". On March 26, Stirling participated in the 2015
Echo Music Awards, winning the category of "Best Crossover Act" for the second consecutive year. Stirling also performed at the Echo Awards with artist
Andreas Bourani. On April 7, the
2015 Billboard Music Awards nominated Stirling in two categories: Top Dance/Electronic Artist and Top Dance/Electronic Album, for her album
Shatter Me. Stirling won the latter category, her first Billboard Music Award. On May 4, a single from Marina Kaye'e
Fearless album was released under the title "Sounds Like Heaven", featuring Stirling. A day later a collaboration between Stirling and
Joy Enriquez was released on iTunes. On July 1, during an interview by
Billboard in New York, Stirling said that when her tour finished in August she would begin work on her third studio album: "As soon as we finish this tour, mid-August, I'm just gonna jump straight into the studio, it's pretty exciting and it's also terrifying to start thinking about a new album again. But I'm honestly so excited to see where it goes. I have a lot of ideas on directions it could go, and I'm really excited to see which way it could go. But the truth is, I don't know where it's going!" In its July 22 issue,
Variety magazine ranked Stirling eleventh on its Digital Star Ranking, of the top twelve stars in the digital world. It was estimated that Stirling's annual
ad income was $364,000. On August 8, 2015, Stirling released her first
video album "
Lindsey Stirling: Live from London", which included part of her
Music Box Tour. The album reached the top ten of the
German album charts, for the third consecutive time. It also reached the top position on the German music DVD charts. In the same month, Stirling played the
National Anthem before the start of an
Arizona Diamondbacks game at
Chase Field. In late December 2015, Stirling earned her first US
Billboard Hot 100 entry with "Hallelujah" debuting at number 81 on the issue dated January 9, 2016, and peaking at number one on the Hot Christian Songs Chart, being her first single in doing so as well. Stirling had announced in June 2015 that over the course of two and a half years, she had written an autobiography,
The Only Pirate at the Party, to be published by
Gallery Books. Co-authored by Brooke S. Passey, Stirling's sister, the book was released on January 12, 2016, and was listed at No. 10 on
The New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list for January 31, 2016. Three days later, a collaboration between Stirling and the Swedish DJ/producer
Otto Knows was released under the title "Dying for You", with its video premiering on February 1. In June 2016, Stirling announced her new studio album
Brave Enough, set for release on August 19, 2016. Shortly after, she uploaded a new music video "
The Arena" to her main channel.
Brave Enough debuted at number one on the US
Dance/Electronic Albums chart and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200. Stirling released an exclusive track "Firefly" with Brave Enough via
Pledge Music, with Stirling on vocals. The song would later be used in the movie
Barbie: Star Light Adventure. In August 2016, Stirling released the song "
Something Wild" which she wrote for the
Disney movie, ''
Pete's Dragon. The song played over the end credits and both Brave Enough
and the movie soundtrack. Stirling appeared on several television shows in August to promote her new album, including The Today Show'' and
ZDF's Morgenmagazin in
Germany, performing "
The Arena" live. During the same month, Stirling performed at the opening ceremony of
The International 2016, a
Dota 2 tournament which had the biggest prize pool in
eSports history. Later Stirling also appeared in a
Schön! magazine photoshoot and feature interview. In September 2016, Stirling started her
Brave Enough Tour in
San Diego, California that would continue worldwide for 79 dates. Stirling also performed the national anthem and a pre-game concert wearing a 49ers jersey for the
San Francisco 49ers season opener against the
Los Angeles Rams at
Levi's Stadium. September also marked the release of three special editions of
Brave Enough. All released exclusively on vinyl, there was a red swirl disc edition, a
Barnes & Noble exclusive featuring the bonus track "Activate" and an
Urban Outfitters edition limited to 500 copies with an autographed postcard from Stiring enclosed. Stirling was also featured on the cover of fashion & lifestyle magazine
Bello for their Summer edition. In October 2016, Stirling launched a music video for the single "Prism", featuring herself as five clones named "The Violindseys". The same month, Stirling was featured on the cover of
Strings Magazine. The following month, Stirling released the single
Hold My Heart featuring
ZZ Ward along with an
Alice in Wonderland-themed video. A second video was later released in collaboration with
HP, featuring Stirling playing both herself and her alter-ego super fan Phelba. Stirling was one of the first artists to record for the newly launched
Spotify Singles. Stirling recorded two acoustic tracks at Spotify Studios in
New York City, her single,
Something Wild and a cover of "
7 Years" by Lukas Graham. They were premiered on the streaming service on November 30, 2016. Stirling began 2017 by launching a single version and video of her song "
Love's Just a Feeling" featuring
Rooty. Later in the year Stirling and Rooty would perform the song on
Live with Kelly and Ryan.
Bebe Rexha sampled "First Light" from
Brave Enough and credited Lindsey Stirling in the song
Small Doses as violinist on her EP
All Your Fault: Pt. 1 released in February. In April, following her performance in London for the Brave Enough Tour, Stirling gave an interview and live performance on
BBC's The One Show in the UK. On the same trip, Stirling also appeared on
BBC Radio 2. For
Record Store Day 2017, Stirling released a limited edition vinyl copy of
Brave Enough. The gatefold was signed by Stirling and limited to 650 copies worldwide. Later that month, she would perform at the
Radio Disney Music Awards at the
Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Stirling performed as part of a line up with
Julia Michaels and
Noah Cyrus During the course of the show, Stirling had two serious injuries that nearly ruled her out of the competition. First suffering a blunt rib injury and possible separation during training and later a knee injury during a rehearsal for a group dance. Stirling's performance in
week 4 of the competition was in memory of her father, Stephen, who died in January of that year from cancer. Professional dance partner Ballas wore a hat and scarf of Stirling's father for the performance. Stirling and Ballas finished in second place, averaging a score of 27.1, and secured 5 perfect score performances across the 17 dances. In early October 2017, a
Bollywood themed music video for the song "Mirage" was released featuring
Raja Kumari. Later that month, Stirling released her fourth studio album
Warmer in the Winter, a holiday-themed record. The album features
Becky G,
Trombone Shorty,
Alex Gaskarth of
All Time Low, and
Sabrina Carpenter. The album opened at No. 32 on the
Billboard 200, selling 15,000 copies, making her fourth Top 40 album. In November, Stirling went on her North American
Warmer in the Winter Tour celebrating the new album. The following October, Stirling released a Deluxe version of "Warmer in the Winter" which featured five additional tracks. In addition, a music video for "I Wonder as I Wander" was released. Stirling commenced her
Wanderland Tour celebrating the festive album across 24 dates in North America. In November 2018 for
Record Store Day's Black Friday event, Stirling released a special Holiday Edition picture disc vinyl. The record featured images of Stirling from her
Warmer in the Winter photoshoot imprinted onto the vinyl record itself. The dual-sided single had two tracks - "
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch" and "
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". It was limited to 2350 copies. In 2018, she appeared on the track "Hi-Lo", the third track of
Evanescence's fourth studio album
Synthesis released as a single in June. Stirling toured with the band in the U.S. during that summer. Stirling also appeared at the Yamaha All-Star Concert in Anaheim in January 2018. Stirling collaborated with
Alexander Jean on the song "Deeper" released in mid-2018. This made a re-connection between Stirling and her DWTS partner Mark Ballas. In late 2018, Stirling made a number of television appearances. She returned to
Dancing With The Stars for a guest appearance on the October 15, 2018 episode, dancing a "trio dance" with
Bobby Bones and
Sharna Burgess. Later that month, Stirling appeared in an episode of the first series of
The Outpost, playing the character Pock. In November, Stirling was on the cover of French lifestyle publication,
Grumpy Magazine. She would also release a video for "
You're a Mean One Mr Grinch" featuring
Sabrina Carpenter, originally from her 2017 album
Warmer in the Winter. In December, Stirling was a guest on
Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas. In an interview later that month, Stirling revealed in an exclusive interview with the
Huffington Post, that she was invited to join the first season of ''
America's Got Talent: The Champions'' but declined.
2019–2021: Artemis, World Tour, String Sessions and Lose You Now (EP) On June 21, 2019, Stirling announced that her fifth album,
Artemis would be launching later that year. Stirling said that she had been inspired by the
Greek goddess Artemis, and drew parallels to her own experiences and challenges. The first single released from the album was "
Underground". It was a joint audio and music video release. On the same day, Stirling announced her
Artemis Tour. Later the song was re-released with vocals by
Elle King, along with a music video and a television performance on
Live with Kelly and Ryan. In November 2019, Stirling reprised her holiday-themed tours, embarking on the
Warmer in the Winter Christmas Tour across 26 dates in North America. This was her third holiday-themed tour based around the album "
Warmer in the Winter". During the tour, her video for "We Three Gentlemen" was released. Stirling was featured on the cover of Guitar Girl Magazine for their Winter 2019 issue. In November, Stirling's collaboration with
Switchfoot on the song Voices was released. It was the lead single from their album
Native Tongue. Across 2019, a number of Stirling's songs would be used on television and movie soundtracks. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" in
The Knight Before Christmas, "The Phoenix" in
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the "Phantom of the Opera" medley in
The Umbrella Academy. In March 2020,
NASA released a video of Stirling performing the song "
Artemis" at the
Kennedy Space Center. The song shares a name with the NASA
Artemis program which has the goal to return humans to the moon in 2024, including the first woman. As part of the "Artemis" album, Stirling would release a number of music videos for tracks not released as singles that matched the storyline of the album. In June 2020, the video for "Between Twilight" was released featuring professional dancer
Derek Hough. The video storyline is showing Artemis (Stirling) meeting
Orion (Hough) and falling in love. Later in September 2020, a video for "Til The Light Goes Out" was released with Stirling acting as the leader of a small band of mystics living in the desert. In May 2020, Stirling launched a weekly podcast called "String Sessions" and featuring music artists. Every episode is started with a string (violin) cover of a song by the featured artist. The podcast is made available on
YouTube,
Spotify, and
Google Podcasts. Guests have included Andy Grammer, Amy Lee from Evanescence, JP Saxe x Julia Michaels, Gabby Barrett and Johnny Rzeznik. In July 2020, Stirling celebrated 3 billion views on her YouTube channel. In August 2020, Lindsey Stirling was announced as a second-time collaborator with Evanescence for the third single,
Use My Voice, alongside many rock singers as well as past collaborator
Lzzy Hale. Including Stirling and Hale were
Taylor Momsen from
The Pretty Reckless,
Sharon den Adel from
Within Temptation, Deena Jakoub from
Veridia and many more of Evanescence close family and friends. In the same month, Stirling released the single "
What You're Made Of" featuring guest lyrics from
Kiesza. The song was written for the video game,
Azur Lane. In September, No Saving Me by Philmon Lee was released featuring Stirling. Stirling also collaborated with American post-hardcore band
Escape the Fate on the song "Invincible" in October. A music video was also released for the song which included Stirling herself. Stirling was on the cover of
Civilian Magazine for their Fall/Winter 2020 issue with an exclusive interview and photoshoot. Stirling opened 2021 releasing the single "
Lose You Now" in collaboration with DJ
Mako. It was based on her original song, "Guardian", from Artemis. Mako wrote the lyrics for the song, and a music video was released on January 15. The song peaked at No. 3 on the
Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart for the week ending January 30. In April 2021, an acoustic version of the song was also released. During the same month, Stirling released a cover and music video of the song Wild Rift from the popular video game,
League of Legends. Stirling was also featured at this time in an advertising campaign for the
Asus Zenbook. In July 2021, Stirling released her second ever
EP for
Record Store Day. Titled "
Lose You Now" the five-track EP was a vinyl exclusive, limited to 2,000 copies with an etched B-Side. The same month, a video for the song "Masquerade" from Artemis was released, based around a silent movie. The video was filmed in the
Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Following this, Stirling released further video game collaborations. In August 2021, she performed a version of the
Tales of Arise score for the opening night of
Gamescom. Later a video for the battle song "Flame of Hope" was released. Stirling would also appear as a guest performer on
America's Got Talent alongside two-time champion magician
Shin Lim. In September, Stirling announced she was releasing a rock version of "Rage Beneath The Mountains" from
Genshin Impact for its first anniversary. Stirling announced in October 2021 that she had collaborated with long-term instrument partner
Yamaha to produce a limited edition "Crystallize" violin. The instrument is made from a variety of fine woods including
maple,
spruce, and
brazilwood. The violin was limited to 100 units and as a package with Stirling branded instrument, bow,
rosin and case was priced at $2,495. In the same month, a collaboration between Stirling and cosmetic company Bellapierre was announced.
Intentional Beauty by Lindsey Stirling was launched, with the first product a citrine beauty palette. Stirling's music was featured as part of
Disney's
Walt Disney World Resort 50th anniversary celebration in the 'Harmonious' show at
EPCOT, a night-time event that began in October. In November, Stirling embarked on
The Lindsey Stirling Christmas Program Tour, a 22-date North American concert series. This was her fourth holiday-themed tour. Later that month, on November 28, "Lindsey Stirling: Home for the Holidays" was released in
movie theaters. A mix of Christmas songs and other popular tracks by Stirling were recorded and filmed with unique choreography specifically for this release. In the same month, a special song
Lords was released in conjunction with the mobile video game
Lords Mobile. Stirling had been on the original line-up for
Electric Forest in 2022, however her name was later absent from their announcement, alongside other notable absentees including
Flume and
Diplo.
2022–2023: Snow Waltz and live performances Stirling began 2022 by announcing she had written the theme song for the
CBS series
Good Sam, featuring
Sophia Bush. In February, Stirling headlined the grand opening of
Bell Bank Park, a new sports and leisure arena in
Arizona. In March, Stirling was a guest on Season 3, Episode 111 of the
Kelly Clarkson Show, performing alongside
Karolina Protsenko. Following the release of the app Amp by
Amazon, the company announced in a press release that Stirling would be launching a show on the platform. Her first show aired on March 30, 2022. In an interview published on March 31, 2022, with
Violinist Stirling confirmed she was working on a new album. On April 2, Stirling performed at
Seaworld Orlando for their Seven Seas Food Festival event in The Nautilus Theater. Later that month, it was confirmed Stirling would perform at both The Festival at
Sandpoint on August 6, 2022, and at the
Washington State Fair on September 17, 2022. Stirling is also scheduled to perform at
Britt Festival on August 4, 2022. On April 11, it was announced Stirling had collaborated with Kluge Interactive on a
DLC pack for their
virtual reality music game
Synth Riders to release later that month. It was announced that Stirling would be performing at the 2022
Montreal International Jazz Festival. Her concert took place at
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on July 7, 2022. On May 3, 2022, it was announced Stirling would perform at the
Pacific Amphitheatre as part of their Summer Concert Series in July. In early June, Stirling was featured on the song Maniac released by
girlfriends on their album
(e)motion sickness. On June 21, Stirling was part of the
Disney+ live event Harmonious Live broadcast from EPCOT at Disney World. Stirling was announced as a performer for August 2022 at the Clear Summer Nights concert series in
Bend,
Oregon. On July 12, a music video for Love Goes On And On was released featuring
Evanesence lead singer
Amy Lee. On August 25, Stirling announced her new holiday-themed album named
Snow Waltz. Alongside the announcement, the first track "Ice Storm" was released as a music video on YouTube. The album was recorded in
Los Angeles, produced by Gladius and will release digitally in October, and on vinyl in November. In September, Stirling announced a North American tour to coincide with the release of Snow Waltz during November and December 2022.
Hallmark announced in September that Stirling would be making a cameo appearance in their movie,
A Fabled Holiday starring
Brooke D'Orsay and
Ryan Paevey, performing Joy to the World from Snow Waltz. Stirling was recruited to perform for
A Plague Tale: Requiem as part of the pre-launch activities by the video games manufacturer. Stirling is featured in a music video interlaced with gameplay. In November, Stirling made a return to
The Kelly Clarkson Show, performing "
Joy to the World". House of Solo magazine interviewed Stirling about her album and UK tour dates from Snow Waltz in December 2022. In 2023, Stirling was announced as a performer at Lollapalooza Paris. Later, Stirling revealed a US Tour in conjunction with
Walk Off The Earth. The tour includes a number of state fair dates including
Iowa,
Wisconsin, and
Ohio. In July, Stirling released her version of
Kashmir, originally by
Led Zeppelin. Through the summer she would perform concerts in Europe including in
Athens and
Tel Aviv. In November, Stirling began her 2023 Snow Waltz Christmas Tour in
Stateline, Nevada at the
Tahoe Blue Event Center. Stirling confirmed in August she would be performing European dates on the tour in London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin. In mid-December, Stirling performed at the
CMA Christmas special alongside
Amy Grant and
Trisha Yearwood. In 2023, Stirling collaborated with Japanese rock star
Yoshiki to perform an instrumental version of "
Forever Love" in the documentary film
Yoshiki: Under the Sky.
2024–present: Duality In early 2024, Stirling was a performer at the 2024 NAMM show for Yamaha. Stirling was honored at the event with a
She Rocks award. On 8 March 2024, Stirling announced her latest album
Duality that will release on June 16. Produced by Mako, the album led with its first single
Eye Of The Untold Her released on the same day. Stirling confirmed in March she would complete a 40 city tour in the US starting at the
San Diego Civic Theatre on July 12, ending at
Yaamava Theater on September 11. In April, she released the song
Inner Gold performed with
Royal & The Serpent, her second single from
Duality. Stirling performed later in April for the wedding of billionaire
Ankur Jain held at the ancient
Egyptian pyramids in
Giza. In May, Stirling released the third single from
Duality, titled Evil Twin, ahead of the album launch in June. Days later, she confirmed her 2024 tour would also include dates 23 dates in Europe from October to November.
Peloton announced that from May 28, there would be a Lindsey Stirling class launching on their platform alongside other artists including
Taylor Swift and
Odesza. In June, the video game
Beat Saber added
Untamed from
Duality as one of its sixth anniversary song releases.
Duality officially released on June 14. Stirling also released the song
Survive on the same day with a new music video. In an interview with
People Magazine she revealed the song was written about her unnamed boyfriend who had been cheating on her. Shortly after the release of
Duality, Stirling announced her partnership with Sixthman to headline a music and entertainment cruise in May 2025 aboard the ship
Norwegian Gem, which will take guests from
Miami to
Nassau. After the first week of release,
Duality reached number 25 in the
OCC UK Albums Sales chart. At the
2024 Summer Olympic Games, American athlete
Suni Lee performed to Stirling's song
Eye of the Untold Her during her floor routine. In September, Stirling confirmed she would reprise her winter tour, starting in Toronto at
Meridian Hall and continuing for 21 dates in the lead up to Christmas. ==Philanthropy==