Christmas #1 in Ireland :cheeseblock:

 

Also impacting in the US now as it's climbing the Hot 100.

yep! 3rd week as irelands #1 :cheeseblock: hope it can do the same in uk soon!

I haven’t really resisted Raye’s music since The Line, which I loved.

 

This is really quite good, so happy it’s doing well for her.

ive enjoyed the live performances of it shes put out, each one is different which makes them interesting!

so excited for march when i'm seeing her in concert! and cant wait for the album either! 2023 is gonna be her year, i can feel it

I'm happy this is still looking on lock for the first #1 of 2023 but I'd like it to not just be a one weeker :(

yeah its a shame that it blew up around christmas because although its done huge it might not get multiple weeks at #1 now. hope it can get 2 at least

Looking at what's there.. what could potentially knock her off after 1 week though?

i don't know if they'd knock her off #1 but central cee, bugzy malone, metro+weeknd are all doing really well. i'm hoping none of them are strong enough to knock her from the top but who knows!

Gee I hope she can hang on then. Sadly Central Cee will almost definitely have a #1 to his name at some point in 2023 though :(

Gee I hope she can hang on then. Sadly Central Cee will almost definitely have a #1 to his name at some point in 2023 though :(

 

ugh praying that the fates can stop that happening. :(

yeah its a shame that it blew up around christmas because although its done huge it might not get multiple weeks at #1 now. hope it can get 2 at least

oop if this pulls a Joel McElderry 🙈

Heard this on the chart show for a few weeks but tonight really got into it and the video. Quite harrowing isn't it - reminds me of Amy Winehouse with the self destructive lyrics, the graphic video and dark mood. Such an epic and not obviously commercial too. Surely this will be no.1 for a while as can't see Metro Boomin, Central Cee or Bugzy Malone knocking her off as she has the momentum.

yeah i hope she gets several weeks, wouldn't complain if the was at #1 till feb tbh!

Up 7 to 72 on US Billboard Top100. Impressive with no fewer than 34 Christmas songs above it which will all clear out next week!

Unfortunately doesn't mean this will climb 34 places for free - in recent years they have usually let a bunch of songs that recently went recurrent just return to where they were in the top 50 after the Christmas songs clear out.

 

It's amazing to see this charting at all in the US though! Interested to see how high it can get.

RAYE is performing 'The Thrill is Gone' on the Graham Norton Show next Friday (13th).

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h0zx

RAYE is performing 'The Thrill is Gone' on the Graham Norton Show next Friday (13th).

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h0zx

 

 

OMG YES I will be watching! I hope she gets to perform at the BRITs.

Glad she’s performing The Thrill Is Gone, slowly becoming my favourite of the 4 released so far, plus Escapism is going to be number 1 anyways so glad to see another song get some promo, fingers crossed she can at least get another hit this year as well as the album doing well!

I am so happy for her. I love many of her tracks, this one still hasnt grabbed me tho!

Was listening to 'Escapism.' again last night and it really clicked with me more than ever before (not that I didn't already love it) - maybe I'm just getting excited for it coming to hit #1 tomorrow :lol: Funnily enough after initially saying I didn't think it really sounded like a hit at all I now kind of feel the opposite and suddenly think it sounds like the kind of thing that has a pretty obvious X factor to become huge if TikTok caught wind of it.

 

In any case, 2023's #1s will be off to a fantastic start - I thought 2022 was mostly a good year for #1s as well but I'd rank this ahead of all of them bar Kate Bush now I think. Also think it's pretty easily RAYE's best song for me now (I wasn't sure before if I liked it more than 'Shhh' or not).