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PinkPantheress and Willow Smith collab track 'Where you are' to drop next week

Fans have been anticipating 'Where you are' since it was teased on TikTok earlier this year

PinkPantheress has just confirmed that her highly anticipated collaboration project with Willow Smith will be out next week.

She announced news of a new track by posting a photograph of herself on Twitter with the caption "‘Where you are’ feat @OfficialWillow 22/04".

This track has been highly anticipated by PinkPantheress and Willow Smith fans everywhere after snippets of audio from this new track have been posted on TikTok and became viral audios.

She has previously said that she utilises TikTok as a "focus group," sharing samples of songs to gauge audience reaction before continuing with them.

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In January the musician posted a video on TikTok confirming that there was a collaboration with Willow in the works. She replied to a comment on a previous teaser video of an audio snippet where someone said "I feel like Willow Smith needs to be on this".

“You have been heard,” PinkPantheress replied. “Da collaboration I dreamt of for years… brb crying.”

That video of her confirming that there was a project with Willow in the works has garnered over 850k likes and over 16k comments.

Extended loop remixes have been made by fans on YouTube using the snippets of audio teased by Pinkpantheress over time.

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This track will be PinkPantheress' newest music since her appearance on Mura Masa's February rework of "bbycakes" with Shygirl and Lil Uzi Vert.

Earlier this year the star was named BBC Radio 1's Sound Of 2022. Meanwhile, Willow Smith is featured in Camila Cabello's 'Psychofreak'.

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PinkPantheress' 'Where You Are' single with WILLOW will arrive on April 22.

Aneesa Ahmed is Mixmag's Digital Intern, follow her on Twitter