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BUMP! I'll leave this open until 12pm UK time (midday) this Sunday, we've had some great interest so far but if you're interested, don't miss your chance!

Capital FM Playlist | 13th February 2026 Alex Warren - Eternity Alex Warren - Ordinary Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue Bruno Mars - I Just Might Calvin Harris & Kasabian - Release the Pressure Corbyn Besson & TZUYU - Blink Dave & Tems - Raindance David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones and I - Gone Gone Gone Djo - End of Beginning Doja Cat - Gorgeous Ed Sheeran - Camera Ed Sheeran - Sapphire Freya Skye - silent treatment Harry Styles - Aperture HAVEN. & Kaitlin Aragon - I Run Jason Derulo - Sexy for Me Justin Bieber - DAISIES Justin Bieber - YUKON (Hunny Bee Mash Up) MEEK - Fabulous Milky & Mall Grab - Just the Way You Are Myles Smith - Stay (If You Wanna Dance) Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe Paul Russell - High Maintenance PinkPantheress with Zara Larsson - Stateside RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Robyn - Talk to Me Sabrina Carpenter - When Did You Get Hot? SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill Skye Newman - FU & UF sombr - 12 to 12 sombr - back to friends Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb - Think About Us Taylor Swift - Opalite Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia Tyla - CHANEL XG - HYPNOTIZE Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun Songs removed from playlist Louis Tomlinson - Imposter sombr - Homewrecker Tame Impala - Dracula Homewrecker's removal is almost certainly an error - if it reappears next week (or before then) then I'll put it back in without being in blue.

Capital Buzz Playlist | 16th February 2026 Addison Rae - New York Arlo Parks - 2SIDED Audrey Hobert - Shooting Star Baby Nova - Dodge Bad Bunny - EoO Bella Kay - iloveitiloveitiloveit Chloe Qisha - So Sad So Hot CORTIS - GO! Djo - Delete Ya Eli - Glitter Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas Erin LeCount - I Believe Freya Skye - golden boy Freya Skye - silent treatment Freya Skye - why'd you have to call Harry Styles - Aperture Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody ILLIT - NOT CUTE ANYMORE JADE - Church Jae Stephens - Freakie Leigh-Anne feat. Rvssian & Valiant - Most Wanted Louis Tomlinson - On Fire Madison Beer - bad enough Maya J'an - cul-de-sac Megan Moroney - Wish I Didn't Natanya - On Ur Time Noah Kahan - The Great Divide PinkPantheress with Zara Larsson - Stateside Robyn - Talk to Me ROLE MODEL - Writing's on the Wall ROSALÍA - Dios Es Un Stalker Sabrina Carpenter - Nobody's Son Slayyyter - DANCE... sombr - Homewrecker Tame Impala & JENNIE - Dracula Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL Tyla - CHANEL XG - HYPNOTIZE Zara Larsson - Blue Moon ZAYN - Die for Me Songs removed from the playlist Lily Allen - Madeline

This is literally what I asked you not to do x

Sales are in!

It's a last minute physical drop, nothing to do with streaming.

Future chart hit? Central Cee ICEMAN FREESTYLE 1st single from ALL ROADS LEAD HOME Released: 12th February 2026 Label: Columbia Records Video Biography Central Cee brings a brazen yet conscientious perspective to the hardened UK drill scene. Born Oakley Neil H.T. Caesar-Su in 1998, he was raised in the Shepherd’s Bush suburb of West London. At 13, he began making music that was heavily influenced by the late 2Pac, and further honed his mic skills by listening to contemporary rap juggernauts J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Initially attracted to the melodic UK trapwave sound of the late 2010s, Cee embraced drill production on 2020’s “Loading,” a boastful song that doubled as an open space for him to reflect on his harsh come-up. Central Cee’s debut mixtape, 2021’s Wild West, saw the MC making revelatory confessions on tracks like the standout “Commitment Issues.” The 2022 single “Doja,” which sampled Eve and Gwen Stefani’s 2001 hit “Let Me Blow Ya Mind,” highlighted his ability to craft clever songs that connect with his insatiable audience. With the Drake-assisted “On The Radar Freestyle” and “Sprinter” with fellow UK rapper Dave—both released in 2023—Central Cee’s artistic reach has expanded from regional to global. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2020 19 Loading -2- 2021 44 Pinging (6 Figures) -3- 2021 09 Commitment Issues -4- 2021 44 Day In The Life -1- 2021 16 6 For 6 -5- 2021 62 The Great Escape (Blanco & Central Cee) 2021 17 Meant To Be (Stay Flee Get Lizzy, Fredo & Central Cee) 2021 34 Little Bit Of This -NAS- 2021 04 Obsessed With You -1- 2021 06 Overseas (D-Block Europe feat. Central Cee) MILLIONAIRE 2022 35 Daily Duppy (feat. GRM Daily) -NAS- 2022 21 Retail Therapy -2- 2022 25 Cold Shoulder -IG- 2022 22 Khabib -IG- 2022 25 Straight Back To It -3- 2022 02 Doja -NAS- 2022 40 LA Leakers Freestyle -NAS- 2022 17 One Up -1- 2022 69 Chapters -AT- 2022 66 Don't Like Drill (Meekz & Central Cee) 2022 06 LET GO -NAS- 2023 31 Me & You -NAS- 2023 01 Sprinter (Dave & Central Cee) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2023 12 Trojan Horse (Dave & Central Cee) -AT- 2023 13 UK Rap (Dave & Central Cee) -AT- 2023 26 On The Radar Freestyle (Drake & Central Cee) -NAS- 2023 10 TOO MUCH (The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee) 2023 20 Nice to meet you (PinkPantheress feat. Central Cee) 2024 36 Entrapreneur -NAS- 2024 18 I Will -NAS- 2024 29 H.Y.B. (J. Cole, Bas & Central Cee) 2024 03 BAND4BAND (Central Cee & Lil Baby) -1- 2024 41 Wave (Asake & Central Cee) 2024 15 Did It First (Ice Spice & Central Cee) 2024 34 gen z luv -2- 2024 38 Moi (Central Cee & RAYE) -NAS- 2024 69 One By One -PS- 2025 06 GBP (Central Cee & 21 Savage) -3- 2025 06 CRG (Central Cee & Dave) -AT- 2025 13 Truth In The Lies (Central Cee & Lil Durk) -AT- 2025 39 DILEMMA (Nemzzz feat. Central Cee) 2025 47 GUILT TRIPPIN (Central Cee & Sexyy Red) -NAS- 2025 04 Which One (Drake & Central Cee) 2025 84 Yurrr (D-Block Europe & Central Cee) 2025 50 Booga -NAS- 2026 xx ICEMAN FREESTYLE -1- 1 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 11 x Top 10 | 21 x Top 20 | 33 x Top 40 | 44 x Top 100 Social Media Central Cee

Future chart hit? Charli xcx Always Everywhere 2nd single from Wuthering Heights Released: 13th February 2026 Label: Interscope Records Video Biography Charli xcx’s creative drive and willingness to take risks has made her one of the most enthralling pop artists of her era. Whether she’s penning defiantly joyous singles like “Boom Clap” or exploring her glitchier, chaotic side on “Vroom Vroom”, Charli’s success comes from her work both in and out of pop music’s formulaic lane. Born Charlotte Aitchison in 1992 in Cambridge to Scottish and Gujarati Indian parents, she took up songwriting at 14, lifting her stage name from her instant messenger handle. On the strength of her MySpace uploads and performances at London raves, she landed a record deal at 18, released the modestly successful darkwave cuts “Stay Away” and “Nuclear Seasons”, and then hit the big time with 2012’s kiss-off anthem “I Love It”. Originally scrapped from her own album for being too poppy, the beat-pounding re-recording by Swedish duo Icona Pop quickly became a worldwide dance-floor favourite. Her goth-tinged debut album, 2013’s True Romance, and tracks like the psychedelic, Gold Panda-sampling “You (Ha Ha Ha)” soon positioned Charli as the missing link between Grimes’ freak scene, Lorde’s dark melodies and Carly Rae Jepsen’s sweetness. But while that album and its follow-up, 2014’s synth-poppy Sucker, brought Charli a few steps closer to mainstream approval, she found more creative freedom among the esoteric, hyperpop wilds of 2016’s Vroom Vroom EP and 2017’s twin mixtapes, Number 1 Angel and Pop 2. While stardom eluded her, Charli built a track record as a prolific songwriter and collaborator, penning standard pop hits for Iggy Azalea (“Fancy”) and Selena Gomez (“Same Old Love”), and working with the likes of Lil Yachty, David Guetta and BTS. Yet Charli shines brightest when she’s illuminating, breaking down and even critiquing the industry that gives her acclaim. In 2020, a year after the release of her eclectic, star-studded third album, Charli, she released the intimate how i’m feeling now, an album written in six weeks during the pandemic with input from fans alongside extensive, real-time video diaries and notes. Two years later, she experimented with the act of selling out on her fourth album, CRASH, using her major record label’s A&R expertise to write the mainstream pop record she’d always been afraid to release. That album’s success, coupled with a prominent feature (“Speed Drive”) on 2023’s blockbuster Barbie soundtrack, brought Charli closer than ever to worldwide appeal. But her response was to turn back to the sounds that inspired her to make music in the first place. Her 2024 album, BRAT, is a homage to those riotous, sweaty London clubs of her youth, and an introspective—if not slightly ironic—look at her pop music journey, one riddled with head-empty euphoria (“Club classics”), dominating swagger (“Von dutch”) and sombre sentimentality (“I think about it all the time”). - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2013 01 I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE 2013 62 SuperLove -NAS- 2014 05 Fancy (Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE 2014 06 Boom Clap -1- 2014 35 Break The Rules -2- 2015 08 Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) -3- 2016 29 After The Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty) -NAS- 2017 31 Boys -NAS- 2017 35 Dirty Sexy Money (David Guetta & Afrojack feat. Charli XCX & French Montana) 2018 22 Girls (Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX) 2018 13 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) -1- 2019 70 Blame It On Your Love (feat. Lizzo) -2- 2019 61 Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX) 2019 58 Gone (Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens) -3- 2021 94 Spinning (No Rome, Charli XCX & The 1975) 2021 06 OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie) 2021 44 Good Ones -1- 2022 24 Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama) -2- 2022 70 Used To Know Me -3- 2022 24 Hot In It (Tiësto & Charli XCX) 2023 09 Speed Drive -OST- 2023 41 In The City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith) -NAS- 2024 26 Von dutch -1- 2024 11 360 -2- 2024 24 Talk talk (Charli xcx & Troye Sivan) -5- 2024 07 Sympathy is a knife (Charli xcx & Ariana Grande) -6- 2024 28 Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde) -PS- 2024 08 Apple -3- 2024 63 365 -AT- 2024 01 Guess (Charli xcx & Billie Eilish) -4- 2025 19 party 4 u -AT- 2025 54 Everything is romantic -AT- 2025 26 Chains Of Love -1- 2026 xx Always Everywhere -2- 2 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 23 x Top 40 | 33 x Top 100 Social Media Charli xcx

Yes I know, which is crazy in itself (even though I know circumstances were in play particularly with the 1989 era and her music not being on Spotify)

Fair play to Taylor for playing the game! Feels crazy that this is the first time she's had two #1s from the same album.

01 | 15 | 18th week Taylor Swift Opalite 2nd single from The Life of a Showgirl Released: 3rd October 2025 Label: Taylor Swift Chart Statistics NE (16/10/2025) | 2-4-5-4-4-6-6-7-15-67-71-x RE (08/01/2026) | 11-13-14-14-15-15-1 Sales: 500,000+ Certification: Gold Status: Standard Chart Ratio 07 Sales 02 Audio Streaming 12 Video Streaming Video Biography The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. She followed those up in 2022 with Midnights, which she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff, and described as "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life." In 2023, Swift undertook one of the most ambitious road shows of all time: the multi-year Eras Tour, which saw her presenting new and classic material across more than 100 locales worldwide. It was just one of many reasons she was named Apple Music's Artist of the Year for 2023. Swift returned to the soft, comfortable, bed-like sonics of Midnights for her 11th album, 2024’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. A study in extremes and heightened emotions, the record—which features guest turns from Post Malone and Florence + the Machine—is her most specific, candid, and unsparing work to date. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2009 02 Love Story -1- MILLIONAIRE 2009 60 White Horse -AT- 2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2- 2009 100 Crazier -OST- 2009 30 You Belong With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE 2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST- 2010 30 Mine -1- 2012 67 Safe & Sound (feat. The Civil Wars) -OST- 2012 70 Eyes Open -OST- 2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift) 2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1- MILLIONAIRE 2012 30 Begin Again -PS- 2012 26 Red -PS- 2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -2- MILLIONAIRE 2012 36 State Of Grace -PS- 2012 07 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) -4- 2013 09 22 -3- 2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST- 2013 25 The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) -5- 2014 02 Shake It Off -1- MILLION SELLER 2014 39 Welcome To New York -IG- 2014 04 Blank Space -2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 21 Style -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 04 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 40 Wildest Dreams -5- MILLIONAIRE 2016 05 I Don't Wanna Live Forever (ZAYN & Taylor Swift) -OST- MILLIONAIRE 2017 01 Look What You Made Me Do -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 07 ...Ready For It? -2- 2017 15 Gorgeous -3- 2017 29 Call It What You Want -IG- 2017 49 End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) -4- 2018 45 Delicate -5- 2019 03 ME! (feat. Brendon Urie) -1- 2019 05 You Need To Calm Down -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 43 The Archer -IG- 2019 14 Lover -3- MILLIONAIRE 2019 21 The Man -4- 2019 02 Cruel Summer -5- MILLIONAIRE 2019 44 Christmas Tree Farm -NAS- 2020 57 Only The Young -NAS- 2020 06 cardigan -1- MILLIONAIRE 2020 08 exile (feat. Bon Iver) -AT- 2020 10 the 1 -AT- 2020 03 willow -1- 2020 15 champagne problems -AT- 2020 19 no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) -AT- 2021 12 Love Story (Taylor's Version) -1- 2021 52 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (feat. Maren Morris) -2- 2021 30 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) -3- 2021 52 You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2021 73 Renegade (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift) 2021 25 Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) -PS- 2021 03 All Too Well (Taylor's Version) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2021 18 State Of Grace (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2021 22 Red (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift) 2022 88 the lakes -AT- 2022 42 This Love (Taylor's Version) -PS- 2022 77 Don't Blame Me -AT- MILLIONAIRE 2022 63 Carolina -OST- 2022 78 august -AT- 2022 01 Anti-Hero -1- MILLIONAIRE 2022 03 Lavender Haze -2- 2022 04 Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2023 63 Bejeweled -AT- 2023 65 You're On Your Own, Kid -AT- 2023 11 All Of The Girls You Loved Before -NAS- 2023 12 Karma -3- 2023 90 The Alcott (The National feat. Taylor Swift) 2023 18 Hits Different -AT- 2023 06 I Can See You (Taylor's Version) -1- 2023 15 Enchanted (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2023 01 Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) -1- 2023 02 Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2023 05 "Slut!" (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2023 20 You're Losing Me -PS- 2024 01 Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) -1- 2024 03 The Tortured Poets Department -AT- 2024 04 Down Bad -AT- 2024 08 I Can Do It With A Broken Heart -2- 2024 37 us. (Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift) 2024 85 Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me? -AT- 2025 01 The Fate Of Ophelia -1- 2025 01 Opalite -2- 2025 03 Elizabeth Taylor -AT- 2025 46 The Life Of A Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) -AT- 6 x #1 | 26 x Top 5 | 35 x Top 10 | 46 x Top 20 | 60 x Top 40 | 86 x Top 100 Social Media Taylor Swift

02 | 01 | 16th week Dave and Tems Raindance 1st single from The Boy Who Played The Harp Released: 24th October 2025 Label: Dave / Neighbourhood Recordings Chart Statistics NE (06/11/2025) | 5-7-7-8-8-11-13-7-27-3-4-2-1-2-1-2 Sales: 400,000+ Certification: Gold Status: Standard Chart Ratio 17 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 04 Video Streaming Video Biography Challenging power and perception with a free-spoken approach to rap, Dave has indelibly amplified hip-hop’s voice in Britain. Born David Orobosa Omoregie in Brixton in 1998, Dave suddenly implanted himself in the UK rap scene in 2016, first with the electric grime alliance “Thiago Silva” with AJ Tracey and then when Drake jumped on the remix of the velvety “Wanna Know” from Dave’s first EP, Six Paths. Rebuffing label advances to pursue his career independently, he demonstrated a self-reliant streak on releases such as his 2017 EP Game Over, whose “Question Time”, a scathing attack on Theresa May’s government, garnered him an Ivor Novello songwriting award. Dave’s full-length debut, the Mercury Prize winner Psychodrama, followed in 2019; epitomising his achingly honest rap style, it laid bare personal vulnerabilities while challenging institutional racism in a provocative fashion rarely heard in British rap. The centrepiece of the lavishly soundscaped album was “Black”, a heart-wrenching portrait of the prejudice affronting Black lives. At the 2020 BRIT Awards, where Psychodrama won Album of the Year, Dave started his performance of “Black” by accompanying himself on piano and ended it by excoriating Boris Johnson as a “real racist” and executing a perfect mic drop. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Dave 2017 51 Wanna Know (feat. Drake) -NAS- 2017 63 Samantha (Dave & J Hus) -NAS- 2017 86 Tequila -NAS- 2017 53 Peligro (Giggs feat. Dave) 2017 17 No Words (feat. MoStack) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 32 How I Met My Ex -AT- 2017 55 My 19th Birthday -AT- 2018 30 Hangman -NAS- 2018 01 Funky Friday (Dave & Fredo) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2019 06 18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave) 2019 15 All I Ever Wanted (Fredo feat. Dave) 2019 40 Black -1- 2019 08 Disaster (feat. J Hus) -3- 2019 09 Streatham -AT- 2019 06 Location (feat. Burna Boy) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 19 Stinking Rich (MoStack & J Hus feat. Dave) 2019 36 Thiago Silva (Dave & AJ Tracey) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2019 12 Professor X -OST- 2019 90 God's Eye -OST- 2019 21 Playing For Keeps (D-Block Europe feat. Dave) 2019 15 Paper Cuts -NAS- 2020 35 Straight Murder (Giggs & David) (Giggs feat. Dave) 2021 03 Money Talks (Fredo feat. Dave) 2021 09 Titanium -NAS- 2021 33 Mercury (Dave & Kamal.) -NAS- 2021 02 Clash (Dave & Stormzy) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2021 04 Verdansk -2- 2021 06 In The Fire -AT- 2022 70 Screwface Capital -AT- 2022 01 Starlight -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2022 48 My 24th Birthday -NAS- 2022 38 Propeller (JAE5 feat. Dave & BNXN) 2022 35 Fresh Out The Bank (Meekz & Dave) 2023 01 Sprinter (Dave & Central Cee) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2023 12 Trojan Horse (Dave & Central Cee) -AT- 2023 13 UK Rap (Dave & Central Cee) -AT- 2023 49 INTOXYCATED (Oxlade feat. Dave) 2023 65 Incredible Sauce (Giggs feat. Dave) 2023 19 Cheat On Me (Burna Boy feat. Dave) 2023 41 Meridian (Dave & Tiakola) -NAS- 2023 29 Stop Giving Me Advice (Lyrical Lemonade, Dave & Jack Harlow) 2025 06 CRG (Central Cee & Dave) 2025 72 3x (Jim Legxacy & Dave) 2025 01 Raindance (Dave & Tems) -1- 2025 09 History (Dave & James Blake) -AT- 2025 11 Chapter 16 (Dave & Kano) -AT- 2025 72 No Weapons (Dave & Jim Legxacy) -AT- 4 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 15 x Top 10 | 23 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 44 x Top 100 Tems 2021 16 Essence (Wizkid feat. Tems) 2022 08 WAIT FOR U (Future feat. Drake & Tems) MILLIONAIRE 2023 34 Me & U -1- 2024 36 Love Me JeJe -2- 2025 01 Raindance (Dave & Tems) 1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 5 x Top 100 Social Media Dave Tems

I'm not really that bothered with Bad Bunny's music but it's great to hear something a little different in the chart at least!

03 | 02 | 21st week RAYE WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! 1st single from THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. Released: 19th September 2025 Label: RAYE Chart Statistics NE (02/10/2025) | 4-3-6-5-4-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-27-48-1-3-4-3-4-2-3 Sales: 800,000+ Certification: Platinum Status: Standard Chart Ratio 01 Sales 03 Audio Streaming 09 Video Streaming Video Biography When RAYE speaks of her music, she doesn’t just talk of songs but of “stories”. And the South London singer-songwriter (born Rachel Agatha Keen in 1997) has quite the knack for writing them. Nominated for the Songwriter of the Year Ivor Novello Award in 2022, RAYE first broke through in 2014 with her star-signalling self-released debut EP, Welcome to the Winter, followed by the Stormzy-featuring Second EP two years later. A stream of singles and collaborations, including with Stefflon Don, Mr Eazi and Jax Jones, hinted at an artist who could shape-shift between musical spheres—and excel wherever she landed. But despite such successes (her name has also featured on the credits of songs by artists such as Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, Little Mix and John Legend), RAYE felt trapped behind the scenes. In 2021—just months after the release of her chart-topping dance-pop anthem “BED” alongside Joel Corry and David Guetta—the singer-songwriter wrote on social media that she hadn’t been “allowed” to release her debut album and that she was “sick of being slept on” by her label, an allegation that sent shockwaves through the music industry. And it was then that RAYE returned to those stories, as she came to work on her long-awaited 2023 debut LP, My 21st Century Blues, as an independent artist. On it, she explores being a young woman in music and the trauma of sexual assault and substance abuse, but also the things any woman RAYE’s age might be moved to write about: climate change, relationships ending, falling in love with someone new. “This is about me telling the stories I want to tell, in the order I want to tell them, through the sonic landscape I want to tell them,” RAYE told Apple Music at the time of the album’s release. My 21st Century Blues, she added, wasn’t made with mainstream success in mind, yet that’s exactly what it brought. After the confronting “Hard Out Here.” and the made-for-repeat-listening “Black Mascara.”, she unleashed “Escapism.” featuring 070 Shake, a viral hit on both sides of the Atlantic and the biggest song of RAYE’s up to that point. It signalled, without doubt, that her time had come. “It is just the most beautiful validation,” said RAYE. “To know that you’re right to back yourself when you feel conviction and you feel passionately about something. I made this [album] battling and figuring out freedom, and I’m so excited for the artist I get to become. This has set the tone for me.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2016 15 By Your Side (Jonas Blue feat. RAYE) 2016 03 You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones feat. RAYE) MILLIONAIRE 2017 65 The Line -NAS- 2017 15 Decline (RAYE & Mr Eazi) -1- 2018 26 Check (Kojo Funds feat. RAYE) 2018 41 Cigarette (RAYE, Mabel & Stefflon Don) -2- 2018 66 Friends -NAS- 2019 41 Stay (Don't Go Away) (David Guetta feat. RAYE) 2019 55 Love Me Again -1- 2020 21 Tequila (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with RAYE) 2020 06 Secrets (Regard & RAYE) 2021 37 Regardless (RAYE & Rudimental) -2- 2021 03 BED (Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta) MILLIONAIRE 2021 14 Ferrari Horses (D-Block Europe & RAYE) 2021 64 Call On Me -NAS- 2021 50 I Don't Want You (Riton & RAYE) 2021 50 Money Calling (Da Beatfreakz feat. Russ Millions, RAYE & wewantwraiths) 2022 67 Waterfall (Disclosure & RAYE) 2022 01 Escapism. (RAYE & 070 Shake) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2023 69 Ice Cream Man. -AT- 2023 35 Flip A Switch. -2- 2023 23 The Weekend (Stormzy & RAYE) 2023 02 Prada (cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe) MILLIONAIRE 2024 33 Worth It. -3- 2024 22 Genesis. -NAS- 2024 38 Moi (Central Cee & RAYE) 2024 52 Oscar Winning Tears. -4- 2025 13 Born Again (LISA feat. Doja Cat & RAYE) 2025 34 Suzanne (Mark Ronson & RAYE) 2025 01 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! -1- 2 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 19 x Top 40 | 30 x Top 100 Social Media RAYE