Maggie Rogers bought “Grasping” this week along with her flawless cowl of Tate McRae‘s hit single, which she carried out on the BBC Radio 1 Reside Lounge.
Rogers put her characteristically folksy spin on the pop hit, stripping down the verse earlier than belting the highly effective refrain: “I’d need myself/ Child, please imagine me/ I’ll put you thru hell/ Simply to know me.”
The Canadian singer’s smash single surpassed a billion performs on Spotify this week, making it McRae’s second tune to take action, following her 2020 hit “You Broke Me First.” It’s additionally McRae’s first high 10 on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Scorching 100, reaching a No. 7 excessive thus far. It topped the Billboard World 200 chart, the Billboard World Excl. U.S. and the Billboard Canadian Scorching 100 tallies.
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“I don’t suppose individuals actually anticipated me to launch a tune like this. I didn’t count on me to launch it. I used to be deciding for ceaselessly which tune I needed to come back again from a 10-month break. I believe additionally individuals weren’t anticipating me to bop like I did within the music video, and I believe it was just a bit surprising,” she beforehand informed Billboard of the observe. “It additionally seems like a switch-up in my character and I believe my followers had been able to see a extra assured bada– facet of me. It feels very thrilling beginning the album with that type of vitality going into it.”
The milestone caps off an enormous month for McRae, who received artist of the yr and single of the yr, for “Grasping,” on the 2024 Juno Awards, although she didn’t attend. McRae had been nominated for 9 awards in earlier years, however this yr marks her first Juno wins, following a breakthrough yr in 2023 and the chart success of her sophomore album Suppose Later. McRae heads out on her Suppose Later World Tour this month.
Watch Maggie Rogers cowl Tate McRae’s “Grasping” under.
