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Posted by: Jay❄ 11th May 2021, 10:41 PM

British singer/songwriter Griff is this year's recipient of the Brit Award for Rising Star! She performed her recent UK Top 40 hit Black Hole at the Brit Awards tonight, and her forthcoming mixtape One Foot in Front of the Other is out in June. You may also know her for singing Love Is A Compass.




Stan with me!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 11th May 2021, 10:44 PM

It was a great performance! Not sure what to expect from the album commercially yet, but hopefully it can go top 10

Posted by: Juranamo 11th May 2021, 10:47 PM

Somehow only just discovering Black Hole via that performance... Seriously good!

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 11th May 2021, 11:06 PM

me too, very confident performance i thought and it sold the song.

Posted by: Tafty 11th May 2021, 11:23 PM

The performance was brilliant! I'm so happy she's received a great boost from it and it seems to be a universally praised performance too

A great song. Excited for more.

Posted by: Jay❄ 12th May 2021, 11:58 PM

I'm looking forward to hearing the mixtape! CD and Cassette are only £4.99 each, vinyl is £14.99, and they include a signed artcard https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artists/griff.html

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 13th May 2021, 01:57 PM

Performance was absolutely brilliant!

Posted by: Jay❄ 26th May 2021, 02:48 AM

It seems likely that Black Hole will become a UK Top 20 hit on Friday! Currently midweek #19.

Apparently One Foot in Front of the Other (the song) is coming out on Friday too.

Posted by: -Jay- 27th May 2021, 05:37 AM

^ Premiere is today at 18:15 BST!

Posted by: Tafty 28th May 2021, 07:29 AM

Really liking this on first listen!

Posted by: JackTheeStallion 28th May 2021, 07:52 AM

This is so cute! Really liking it in first listen. Is it being pushed as a single?

Posted by: Bjork 28th May 2021, 08:11 AM

for now it's a Grat, the current single is Black Hole, still climbing everywhere and been pushed like crazy on Spotify

Posted by: JosephStyles 30th May 2021, 02:55 PM

It's another great song, I'm getting really excited about this mixtape release

Posted by: Liаm 31st May 2021, 11:43 PM

Her melodies are so striking, really intrigued by this mixtape and what else she pulls out of the bag, One Foot In Front Of The Other is lovely

Posted by: Bjork 4th June 2021, 07:24 AM

One Foot added to R1's playlist, so guess they're gonna push this too

Posted by: JosephStyles 4th June 2021, 12:30 PM

Black Hole's push came a while ago really, it's just taken a long time (and a BRITs performance) to take off. Don't blame them for moving on with a new single even while Black Hole is flying high.

Posted by: ManicKangaroo 4th June 2021, 01:02 PM

Pushed back a week to the 18th

Posted by: -Jay- 6th June 2021, 06:10 PM

Finally got around to listening to One Foot in Front of the Other - another excellent song I hope it catches on.

Thrilled that Black Hole went Top 20 (#18 peak)!

Posted by: -Jay- 17th June 2021, 01:46 AM

Another song has been released today, in advance of the EP tomorrow:

Posted by: JackTheeStallion 19th June 2021, 10:32 AM

Really enjoying this on first listen, some solid songwriting there and just a really nice listen

Posted by: -Jay- 20th June 2021, 05:38 AM

Loving this, particularly the title track and Shade of Yellow. Walk is giving me 1989 Taylor!

I feel like this is a strong enough body of work for it to have more than mix-tape status, but it does make me excited for what the future holds for Griff. *.*

It currently has a score of 95 on Metacritic!

*Orders the vinyl*

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 20th June 2021, 05:40 AM

Her voice is gorgeous! I'd like to hear her on a dance track by Gorgon City or somebody like that.

Posted by: Lunar 20th June 2021, 12:03 PM

Really liking this, all the tracks are solid and it's a great listen overall

Loving 'Earl Grey Tea' particularly from the songs we haven't heard, it's stunning.

Posted by: -Jay- 22nd June 2021, 03:08 AM

Midweek #4 Go Griff!

Posted by: Klaus 22nd June 2021, 05:47 PM

A strong collection of songs but I understand now why they’ve gone for this mixtape, rather than a full album. It feels very much a continuation of the Mirror Talk EP, almost to the point where it feels a couple of songs are sampling Mirror Talk tracks.

There’s nothing as strong as Black Hole but One Foot in Front of the Other, Remembering My Dreams and Earl Grey Tea are my other standout faves.

I’ve really loved her output so far though, such an exciting popstar that’s emerging. She’s so talented, such strong hooks and her involvement with the production side of things in particular is great.

I’m glad y’all are finally paying attention to her after my thread last year passed without comment : http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=237048

Say It Again still remains such a strong fave but Sound of Your Voice, Forgive Myself and 1,000,000 X Better are all incredible too.

Posted by: -Jay- 23rd June 2021, 10:47 AM

I definitely need to check out her older stuff! I only started paying attention when I heard Black Hole back in January.

I heard her track with Zedd earlier today and I quite like it (I checked out the BuzzJack thread for that single and it was full of hate, oop)

Posted by: Bjork 23rd June 2021, 04:59 PM

really liking Shade of Yellow, will have to check her other EP, didn't know about it

Posted by: -Jay- 26th June 2021, 06:44 AM

In at #4 in the UK So pleased for her! It sold 5,436 copies. A week earlier (which was the original release date) and that would have only got her to #9 Very well timed!

Posted by: JackTheeStallion 26th June 2021, 09:15 AM

So happy she got #4! I really hope she doesn't end up being one of those artists who only has one hit and struggles otherwise. She is so talented and this EP is one of my favourites this year so far, so glad I decided to impulsively buy tickets to see her on tour later this year before Black Hole was even a big hit.

Posted by: Klaus 26th June 2021, 09:37 AM

Yes, definitely do! The Zedd song is the only one I dislike and can’t get into oops

Posted by: kye 26th June 2021, 10:39 AM

shade of yellow is great! i’d love that to take off for her.

Posted by: -Jay- 30th June 2021, 02:13 PM

Interestingly the version of Walk on her YouTube channel is different in terms of production and her vocal take!




Also Black Hole went Silver

I didn't realise her mixtape was only 198 sales behind #3, a pity it didn't quite do enough to go Top 3! Predictably its falling quite harshly in week 2, it was midweek #49 yesterday.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 30th June 2021, 02:22 PM

I thought she'd have held up a lot better than that! Especially as it already has one decent sized hit and another new single gaining traction.

Posted by: -Jay- 30th June 2021, 03:05 PM

Yesterday she was on 943 sales (477 Physicals, 363 Streaming, 103 Downloads) but unfortunately that level of streaming isn't very strong. There's 39 albums above her that have higher streaming sales, even just the album that is 34th out of those 39 has more than double Griff's streams. So that pushes her down.

Posted by: Bré 30th June 2021, 06:39 PM

It doesn't help for her streaming sales that the project only has 7 songs, even if all of them were getting decent streams she'd still be at a disadvantage just because of it falling short of the permitted number of songs that can contribute to an album's streaming numbers. (As it were she's falling into the issue of having 2 songs with much, much higher streaming numbers than everything else anyway - 'Black Hole' and 'One Foot In Front Of The Other' both top 100 on Apple but none of her other songs are even top 1,500 for example - so that of course translates to fairly negligible overall numbers since the top two tracks have their numbers neutered).

Posted by: Tombo 4th July 2021, 08:00 PM

Just head Shade of Yellow for the first time and it doesn't come close to Black Hole tbh.

Posted by: -Jay- 4th July 2021, 09:22 PM

Still a great song in its own right though I think it's really warm sounding, it's gorgeous.

Posted by: -Jay- 17th July 2021, 08:01 AM

Chart run: 4-67-142-191...

Even though that doesn't look great, I'm actually surprised it's managed to stay in the chart for 4 weeks. The Top 200 is stuffed with heavily streamed Greatest Hits/old studio albums, so it's kind of hard for artists such as Griff without major streaming success to hang around in this chart for too long (particularly because physical sales are so frontloaded).

Posted by: -Jay- 19th August 2021, 03:51 PM

'One Night' will be released on 26th August!

https://fpt.fm/app/30075/griff?ref=https%3A//t.co/

Posted by: -Jay- 26th August 2021, 10:04 PM

Another bop!

Posted by: Lunar 27th August 2021, 07:30 AM

Loving 'One Night' already!

Posted by: Bjork 27th August 2021, 08:20 AM

wow thats incredible, so instant

Posted by: k👠th 10th January 2022, 04:50 PM

This remix!!

Posted by: awardinary 13th February 2023, 12:01 AM

Just seen that she’s put this live performance of Walk out on Spotify this week;

Posted by: -Jay- 17th February 2023, 04:06 PM

^ 'Walk' is doing quite well for Griff recently, but I'm not sure why! It doesn't seem like it's a thing on TikTok (unless I've overlooked it), but it's #1 on her Spotify page with 18,482,119 plays. That makes it the second most played song on the 'One Foot in Front of the Other' mixtape (after 'Black Hole').

I'm curious about what the next step is for her career. It's been 13 months since 'Head on Fire', while the aforementioned mixtape came out in June 2021. She did a lot of shows last year (including support slots, festivals), so she was definitely busy, but it just seems like a long time without any new music!

Posted by: Yobnedor 17th February 2023, 07:31 PM

Walk seems to be the one Spotify playlist the most!