American indie-pop singer Gracie Abrams has landed her first UK number one in the official UK songs charts with her song “That’s So True”. Abrams released the song as part of the deluxe version of her second studio album “The Secret of Us” which contains the hit single “I love you, I’m Sorry” and a collaboration with Taylor Swift.
Abrams first entered the music scene with her EP “Minor” in 2020, off of which the song “I miss you, I’m sorry” gained her some popularity. She toured the album around the United States and the United Kingdom with a total of twelve dates. Successively, she released another EP called “This is What it Feels Like” which contains fan-favorite songs such as “Camden”, “Feels Like” and “Rockland”. Both of Abrams’s Eps deal with loss and heartbreak and often with feelings of isolation and loneliness which resonated a lot with her listeners, which kept growing with the release of her second project.
Abrams then toured with Olivia Rodrigo on certain dates of her “SOUR” tour in 2022.
In February 2023, Abrams announced her first album titled “Good Riddance”. She released the first single, “Block Me Out” in April of the previous year, and eventually released the singles “Difficult”, followed by “Where do We Go Now?” and “Amelie” in anticipation of the album, and announced “I Know It Won’t Work” as the last single of the album released on the same day. “Good Riddance” peaked at number 3 on the UK official chart. Abrams toured the Europe and North America with “Good Riddance” and played two sold-out shows at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire last year.
Abrams opened for of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” shows in North America while working on her second studio album. She bonded with Swift over music and eventually decided to include her in her project. Abrams has spoken a lot about Swift’s influence on her music and, after releasing “The Secret of Us”, she revealed on Instagram that she and Swift wrote the title track “us.” while drunk in her living room and almost set the kitchen on fire.
“The Secret of Us” was released earlier this year and peaked at number one on UK charts. The single “I love you, I’m Sorry” quickly became a hit and peaked at 4 in the UK with many other songs off the album reached high positions on global charts (with four songs making it on UK charts). Abrams then released the deluxe version of “The Secret of Us”, contained four new songs that she’d previously played on tour as well as live versions of three songs off the album. With “That’s So True” off of “The Secret of Us: Deluxe” Abrams finally achieved her first UK number one, five years after the release of her first song. Abrams will be touring the UK and Europe next year, playing in Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow and the O2 in London. She will also open for Noah Kahan in Hyde Park’s British Summer Time.
