RAYE’s ‘Escapism’ surpasses 1billion streams on Spotify

‘Escapism’ by RAYE that includes 070 Shake has surpassed 1billion streams on Spotify.

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The musician was confirmed as having hit the milestone yesterday (April 27), two years after the observe’s preliminary launch. It's the first music by both artist to succeed in the 1billion mark.

It comes after the music landed RAYE her first UK Quantity One single in 2023, which she advised NME was the “final validation” on the time, given the turbulent journey she’s been on inside the music business.

The observe comes from her 2023 breakthrough album ‘My twenty first Century Blues’, which has gone on to see the artist break information for her variety of wins on the 2024 BRIT Awards, carry out on the 97th Academy Awards earlier this 12 months, play on the principle phases at each Glastonbury and Studying, and rather more.

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RAYE’s street to success has been rocky, with the multi-BRIT winner chatting with NME in 2022 about her label struggles, saying: “If you signal with a document label, technically they give you the results you want: you’re signing to an organization for them to work on your profession and take you to that subsequent stage.

“However as a girl, it simply doesn’t really feel like that. It feels such as you’re working for them. And you realize, a few of the issues I needed to put my physique via to even have the ability to that… it’s actually fairly unhappy.”

After calling out her former label Polydor for stopping her from releasing her debut album in 2021, RAYE parted methods with the label weeks later. She went on to launch her debut album independently in 2023, with NME calling it “daring, good and unapologetically her personal.”

Earlier this month, she revealed that she is engaged on new materials, however is feeling a way of stress given the large response to her final launch.

It comes after she advised followers in October that there can be “no second album any time quickly” after her writing books had been stolen alongside together with her automotive.

Going ahead, RAYE has various dwell exhibits deliberate for this summer season, together with a slot at Victoria Park in east London for All Factors East on Saturday, August 23. The Maccabees and Barry Can’t Swim have additionally been confirmed for subsequent 12 months’s pageant. Go to here for tickets.

She’s additionally up for 2 Ivor Novello awards for Greatest Track Musically and Lyrically with ‘Genesis’, and PRS for Music Most Carried out Work with ‘Prada’.

Earlier this 12 months, King Charles III shared his love of RAYE, and described the singer as “an excellent ambassador for British music”. The feedback got here as the royal shared a personally-curated playlist of his favorite songs on a one-off radio present final month, and recalled assembly the star.