American R&B sensation Eryk is planning to return with his first new album in count them; 5 years, the singer is in the recording studio working on his the album which is scheduled for an early release in 2003, according to his website eryk-online.com, new songs include “Fame,” “Wrecking,” “Letting You Go,” and “Can You Help Me,” which makes Eryk the Australian King of Acoustic music this week, “Can You Help Me,” (which features an appearance from Stacy of the popular American rock band Spout) enters the Australian Digital Acoustic chart at #2 and Australian Digital Pop chart at #6, making the song the highest debut on both music charts.

Australia isn’t the only place where “Can You Help Me,” seems to be getting action, it’s also #8 most heard song Latin American radio after just 5 weeks on the radio charts (last week #7), the song is #2 in Chile and Bolivia with no promotion on Eryk’s part.

According to the Music Industry News Network “Can You Help Me”,” was never going to be released and there were no plans for the track to appear on Eryk’s forthcoming album, but it seems things have changed since the song has started to become a runaway hit. Be on the look out, Eryk is driving away with a #1 hit, now all we need is another video!