RAYE claims her first UK No.1 single with Escapism: “These are happy tears!”
After weeks of climbing the chart, RAYE has secured her first UK No.1 single on the Official Singles Chart. The British singer-songwriter is sitting pretty at the top with her massive new hit Escapism, which features American artist 070 Shake.
Escapism takes the pole position with 5.6 million streams as the track continues to be a hit on streaming services, radio and TikTok. “We are Number 1 in the UK!
It’s the first Number 1 of the year, it’s my first Number 1 in my life. I’m an independent artist, this is sickening!” RAYE told Official Charts. “This is proof [you should] back yourself, no matter what.
Thank you, this is mad. These are happy tears!” Escapism is lifted from RAYE’s long-awaited debut album My 21st Century Blues, which will be released on 3 February. “It does just feel beautiful, but it also doesn’t feel real, entirely,” RAYE recently told GAY TIMES regrading the impending release of the record. “I feel like someone is going to call me up and tell me, ‘Oh, we’re moving it another two years.’ I am definitely battling with the surreal versus the real, but I’m very excited. “I am also so proud of it and I think during this time with independent life, I’m reevaluating what really matters to me and who I want to be. “I just know I want to put bodies of work out and this is my first one.
