Cameron Whitcomb released “Set Me Free” on Friday, October 23, 2026, and the Cameron Whitcomb Set Me Free single places the Nanaimo, British Columbia singer inside a Netflix series soundtrack in the middle of a sold out tour. The song appears on the soundtrack for season 3 of Nobody Wants This, released through Atlantic Records, and it arrives while his Kingdom of Fear Tour is playing the biggest rooms of his career so far.
Whitcomb is 23, born in Alberta and raised in Nanaimo, and his route here was not a straight line. He left home at 17 to work on a pipeline, surfaced on American Idol in 2022, and built a catalogue on songs that deal openly with addiction and recovery. That candour is the engine of the audience now following him from release to release.
Cameron Whitcomb Set Me Free And The Netflix Placement
“Set Me Free,” the official audio above, was written by Whitcomb with Daniel Silberstein and Ryan Linvill, and produced by Linvill, with Slimdan on guitar and piano. A placement on a Netflix soundtrack is a specific kind of step for a Canadian artist at his stage: it puts the song in front of an audience that did not come looking for him, inside scenes they are already invested in, and it does so in the same week the song is available to stream on its own.
The timing around the release was deliberate. Whitcomb gave the song its live debut at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on October 20, three days before its release, in front of a sold out room on the Kingdom of Fear Tour. The Wiltern set pulled from across the catalogue, with “Medusa,” “Pretty Little,” “Want for Nothing” and “Hollow” alongside the title track, and the new song held a place in that company before anyone could stream it.
Gold Plaques At The Wiltern
The same night carried the receipt for the work behind it. After the Wiltern performance, Atlantic Outpost and The Core Entertainment surprised Whitcomb backstage with a plaque presentation celebrating the Gold certifications for his hit singles “Quitter” and “Medusa,” as reported by MusicRow. Two gold singles, a sold out Los Angeles theatre, and a live debut of a Netflix soundtrack song is a complete week for an artist who was working pipeline jobs as a teenager.
The catalogue underneath those plaques is compact and consistent. The Quitter EP arrived in 2024, led by its title track. The debut full length The Hard Way followed in 2025 and was certified gold in Canada. Singles including “Medusa” and “Hundred Mile High” reached the Canadian Hot 100, and the 2026 Deep Water EP kept the run going, with “Kingdom of Fear” charting on the Canadian Hot 100 this month and giving the current tour its name.
Why The Writing Connects
Reviewing the Wiltern show for Notion, the live write up landed on the quality that runs through all of it, the willingness to leave the uncomfortable details in the songs:
“He’s willing to put the uncomfortable details into a song and let people find something of themselves there.”
That is the context “Set Me Free” lands in. The title is a recovery singer’s title, and the soundtrack placement means the song will meet many of its listeners at exactly the kind of scene it was written for. Among toronto rappers and the wider run of Canadian artists building audiences abroad right now, Whitcomb’s lane is different in sound, country and folk rock with a raspy twang, but identical in structure: Canadian base, American rooms, catalogue first.
What Comes Next
The Kingdom of Fear Tour continues off the back of the Wiltern sellout and a Lollapalooza debut this past summer, and collaborations with Marshmello and Diplo have already taken his voice into rooms his own records do not reach. “Set Me Free” is streaming now through Atlantic as part of the Nobody Wants This season 3 soundtrack. For a 23 year old from Nanaimo, October 2026 is the month the receipts started arriving in public: gold plaques backstage, a sold out theatre on stage, a Netflix soundtrack single the same week, and a tour still rolling toward its next rooms.
