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=== 2017–present: ''Honey'' === [[File:Robyn in Fridays for Future in 2019.jpg|thumb|left|Robyn performing in Kungsträdgården during the ''Fridays for Future'' climate demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden on 27 September 2019, where approximately 50,000 people came.]] In March 2017, a new Robyn song called "Honey" was used in the soundtrack of the final season of HBO TV series, ''[[Girls (TV series)|Girls]]''. The creator of the show, [[Lena Dunham]] selected it from a collection of her in-progress tracks. Robyn finalized it specially for the series.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-robyns-slick-new-song-honey-from-girls-final-season-w472926 |title=Hear Robyn's Slick New Song 'Honey' From 'Girls' Final Season |date=20 March 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref> In February 2018, Robyn answered a fan on Twitter, that she will release her new album "some time this year".<ref name="2018album">{{Cite tweet |number=961316529869656066 |user=robynkonichiwa|title=I do. Some time this year honey|date=7 February 2018}}</ref> During an interview with [[Kindness (musician)|Kindness]], she revealed she was almost done with her new album. Afterwards, at a party, she debuted the full version of her new song "Honey". On 23 July, a new song entitled "[[Missing U (Robyn song)|Missing U]]" was enlisted as a single, and later taken down. Fans quickly began noticing the hints she was dropping, including a post on Twitter with the hashtag #MissingU. It was released on 1 August 2018.<ref name="Missing U single">{{cite news|url=http://www.papermag.com/robyn-missing-u-1-2589680962.html|title=Robyn Might Release New Single August 1st|date=25 July 2018|newspaper=Paper|access-date=27 October 2018}}</ref> On 1 August 2018, Robyn presented "Missing U" on Annie Mac's [[BBC Radio 1]] show. There she talked about the long silence and the process of making the upcoming album to be released before 2018's end. Robyn also released a mini-documentary featuring the song and a tribute to her fans who were missing her and her new music for years. On 19 September 2018, Robyn announced her upcoming album is titled ''[[Honey (Robyn album)|Honey]]'' to be released on 26 October 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/robyn-announces-new-album-honey/|title=Robyn Announces New Album Honey|website=Pitchfork|last1=Minsker|first1=Evan|last2=Blais-Billie|first2=Braudie|date=19 September 2018|access-date=19 September 2018}}</ref> In November 2018, Robyn announced she would be touring across North America and Europe come 2019. The trek kicked off on 5 February 2019 and ended that April.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2022682/robyn-announces-2019-north-american-tour/tour-dates/|title=Robyn Announces 2019 North American Tour|date=13 November 2018|website=Stereogum.com|access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref> On 27 September 2019, she performed in [[Kungsträdgården]] in Stockholm during the [[September 2019 climate strikes|international climate strikes]]. Before singing ''[[Ever Again]]'', she also told the audience she had met climate researcher [[Johan Rockström]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/klimat/robyns-klimatbudskap-det-ar-inte-kort/|title=Robyns klimatbudskap|newspaper=Expressen|language=sv|first=Sara|last=Malm|date=27 September 2019|access-date=27 September 2019}}</ref> In February 2020, she accepted the award for Songwriter of the Decade at the 2020 [[NME Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-awards-2020-robyn-to-be-crowned-songwriter-of-the-decade-2605274|title=NME Awards 2020: Robyn to be crowned Songwriter Of The Decade|date=5 February 2020|website=NME|language=en-GB|access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> After cancelled promotion, gigs, and festivals starting that year amid the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Robyn launched a series of live-stream DJ sets from Stockholm, ''Robyn Presents Club DOMO'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/robyn-live-stream-dj-set-online-2646394|title=Robyn to perform DJ set via live-stream later this week|website=[[NME]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> and also participated in [[Record Store Day]] with a series of previously unreleased remixes of tracks from her record ''[[Honey (Robyn album)|Honey]]'' for limited-release vinyl then streaming by her favorite DJs, artists and collaborators, including [[Joe Goddard (musician)|Joe Goddard]], [[Avalon Emerson]], [[Robert Hood]], [[Louie Vega]], [[Soulwax]], [[Kim Ann Foxman]], Young Marco, [[The Blessed Madonna]], [[Patrick Topping]] and [[Planningtorock]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/robyn-hints-that-new-music-is-coming-this-week-after-sharing-new-song-clip-2720700|title=Robyn hints that new music is coming this week after sharing new song clip|website=[[NME]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> The next two years Robyn collaborated on [[SG Lewis]] and [[Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs|TEED]]'s [[electropop]] track "Impact" with [[Channel Tres]] for the former's album ''[[Times (SG Lewis album)|Times]]'', [[Jónsi]]'s [[avant-pop]] track "Salt Licorice" produced by [[A.G. Cook]] for the former's album ''[[Shiver (Jónsi album)|Shiver]]'', and [[Joakim Åhlund]] and [[Björn Yttling]]'s revived side project ''Smile''{{'s}} [[psychedelic pop]] track "Call My Name" for their album ''Phantom Island''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thefader.com/2020/08/05/sg-lewis-shares-impact-featuring-robyn-and-channel-tres|title=SG Lewis shares "Impact" featuring Robyn and Channel Tres|website=[[The Fader]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jonsi-robyn-new-song-salt-licorice-1068738/|title=Jónsi Teams Up With Robyn for New Ode to Scandinavian Pain, 'Salt Licorice'|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/smile-share-video-for-new-song-call-my-name-ft-robyn-watch/|title=Smile and Robyn Share New Song 'Call My Name': Listen|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> In September 2021, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', from a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, producers, critics, journalists and industry figures, ranked "[[Dancing On My Own]]" at number 20, between [[Billie Holiday]]'s "[[Strange Fruit]]" and [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]", on [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|their reissued list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"]], the decade's highest entry on their list.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/robyn-dancing-on-my-own-2-1225318/|title=The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> Also that month Robyn signed a management contract with Young Artists, the global division of [[Young (record label)|Young]] (a music and arts organization founded in London) that still maintained [[Konichiwa Records|her record label]] and distribution agreements apart from [[Young (record label)|their own]].<ref name="YoungArtists" /> In November 2021, Robyn received an Honorary Award for her "significant contributions" to the music industry from the Swedish Music Publishers Board who went on to say that she had "forever written herself into music history".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/a/oW7X4R/robyn-far-musikforlaggarnas-hederspris|title=Robyn receives the Music Publishers' honorary award|newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]]|access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> In 2025, Robyn was part of the [[Saturday Night Live season 50|50th anniversary celebrations]] of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. On 14 February 2025 she performed "[[Dancing On My Own]]" and [[Talking Heads]]' "[[This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)]]" with [[David Byrne]] on ''[[SNL50: The Homecoming Concert]]'', while also attending the show's [[Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special|50th Anniversary Special]].<ref>{{Cite web|first=Ryan|last=Schwartz|title=SNL50: The Homecoming Concert: Every Revived Character, Every Musical Guest and Every Song Performed — Grade It!|website=[[TVLine]]|date=15 February 2025|url=https://tvline.com/recaps/snl-50-the-homecoming-concert-setlist-musical-guests-video-1235409735/|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Alex |last1=Apatoff |first2=Esther |last2=Kang |title=See All the Stars Arriving at the SNL 50th Anniversary Special |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=16 February 2025 |url=https://people.com/snl-50th-anniversary-special-red-carpet-arrivals-photos-11680809 |access-date=16 February 2025}}</ref> She had performed as a musical guest on ''Saturday Night Live'' on December 10, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.onesnladay.com/2020/11/03/december-10-2011-katy-perry-robyn-s37-e9/ | title=December 10, 2011 – Katy Perry / Robyn (S37 E9) | date=4 November 2020 }}</ref>
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