Tate Rosner McRae (born July 1, 2003) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer. At the age of 13, she gained prominence as the first Canadian finalist on the American reality television series So You Think You Can Dance. McRae was signed by RCA Records in 2019 after her songs had gained traction online—including her 2017 viral hit "One Day"—as she released her debut extended play (EP) All the Things I Never Said (2020) in January of the following year. Her 2020 single, "You Broke Me First" became an international hit and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021, McRae was the youngest musician to be featured on the Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
Her second EP, Too Young to Be Sad (2021) was the most streamed female EP of 2021 on Spotify. Her debut studio album, I Used to Think I Could Fly (2022) was met with favorable critical response and peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, also reaching the top ten in several countries. Developing a more pop-oriented image, McRae's 2023 single, "Greedy" saw her furthest commercial success; it peaked atop the Canadian Hot 100 and reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Its follow-up, "Exes", peaked at numbers nine and 34 on the charts, respectively, and preceded the release of her second studio album, Think Later (2023), which debuted in the top five in various countries.
McRae made her musical guest debut on Saturday Night Live on November 18, 2023, the fifth episode and pre-Thanksgiving-themed episode of Season 49, hosted by actor Jason Momoa, star of the DC Extended Universe hit films Aquaman and the sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. She performed her two songs "Greedy" and "Grave" to promote her new second studio album "Think Later", which its scheduled to release on December 8, 2023.
She returned to Saturday Night Live to made her 2nd musical guest appearance on March 1, 2025, the thirteenth episode of SNL's 50th season, hosted by comedian Shane Gillis, and it was the first show after the 50th Anniversary Special. She performed “Sports car” and “Dear god” after she promote her third album “So Close To What”.
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Since its creation in 2011, McRae's YouTube channel has featured a fairly consistent stream of primarily dance videos. In 2017 she started Create With Tate, a video series, focused on showcasing original songs she wrote and recorded in her bedroom. Her upload of the series' first song "One Day" which she wrote at the age of 14 years old, attracted over 40 million views, prompting her to self-release the song as an independent single. The song would eventually be certified gold in Canada, making it the first certification of her career. From 2017 to 2019, McRae continued to upload and release independent singles as part of her Create With Tate series. Notable songs include "Dear Ex Best Friend" which has over 50 million views and "Dear Parents" with over 20 million views. The series led to her being named a YouTube Artist on the Rise.
Her earlier upload of "One Day" caught the attention of 11 record labels. She eventually signed with RCA Records, in August 2019, because they supported her in maintaining a dance career alongside her music. Following her signing, McRae announced her debut EP All the Things I Never Said in December 2019. She released the five-track EP on January 24, 2020, and announced her first headlining tour of Europe and North America. Each stop on the tour was sold out. The tour received a four out of five-star rating from Roisin O'Connor of The Independent who described McRae as an impressive performer.
The EP's lead single, "Tear Myself Apart", was co-written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell. The EP's final single, "Stupid" charted in Ireland and Canada, earning significant radio airplay performance in the latter, peaking within the top 15 of the Canadian pop radio charts. "Stupid" was certified gold in Canada. "That Way", a track from the EP experienced a resurgence in 2021 after going viral on TikTok and charted in the UK and Ireland. McRae released a remix of "That Way" with Jeremy Zucker on September 3, 2021. By December 2023, the EP had amassed over 729 million streams on Spotify.
In April 2020, McRae released the single "You Broke Me First" as the lead single for her second EP titled Too Young to Be Sad. The song was an international success, peaking within the top ten of the charts in several countries and becoming her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also the longest charting song released by a female artist in 2020 on the Billboard Hot 100, at 38 weeks. It peaked at number 1 on the Mediabase Top 40 chart, breaking the record for the longest climb to number 1 by a female solo artist at 28 weeks.
McRae released the single "Vicious" featuring American rapper Lil Mosey in June 2020 and "Don't Be Sad" in August 2020. She was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Push Best New Artist, and performed "You Broke Me First" at the VMAs pre-show. In September 2020, she was featured on the cover of Dork Magazine.
McRae made her first late night TV appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in October 21, 2020 performing "You Broke Me First". The same month, she released the single "Lie to Me" with Canadian singer Ali Gatie. She again performed "You Broke Me First" in November 2020 at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards. She appeared on the cover of Notion in November 2020. In December 2020, she released "r u ok", the second single from her upcoming EP.
McRae gained notable recognition as a rising artist in 2020, being named YouTube's Artist on the Rise, MTV's Push Artist for July, and a Vevo DSCVR artist. She was featured in Billboard's 21 Under 21 One to Watch list and named by Pandora, The Independent, NME, Amazon Music, and Uproxx as an artist to watch in 2021. In December 2020, she was the youngest person listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the music category. In the same month, she was named one of Rolling Stone's top ten biggest breakthrough artists of 2020 and featured on TikTok's "The Come Up: Emerging Artists" list as one of the top emerging artists on the platform. She was also featured on Harper's Bazaar's On the Rise series. Towards the end of the year, following the success of "You Broke Me First", she signed a worldwide publishing deal with Sony/ATV.
In January 2021, McRae performed "You Broke Me First" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The following day, she released the song "Rubberband" as the third single from her upcoming EP. On March 3, 2021, she released the single "Slower" and announced her second EP called Too Young to Be Sad, which was released on March 26, 2021. On that same day, she was announced as an Apple Music Up Next artist. In March 2021, McRae appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! performing "Slower", and received two Juno Award nominations.
On April 16, 2021, McRae released the track "You" alongside Regard and Troye Sivan. On May 8, 2021, McRae performed a global virtual show, "Too Young to Be Sad". The show was praised by Ali Shutler of NME, who gave it a four-star rating and described the show as slick, impressive, constant spectacle with pop star ambition. Later that month, she signed her first endorsement deal with Essentia Water. In May 2021, McRae was nominated for the Social Star Award at the IHeartRadio Music Awards, and performed "You" with Regard and Troye Sivan on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. At the end of the month, she was featured on the soundtrack of the Amazon original series Panic with the track "Darkest Hour".
In June 2021, she was featured on the song "U love U" by Blackbear, performed "Lie to Me" at the 2021 Juno Awards, and released the track "Working", a collaboration with Khalid. In August 2021, McRae was featured on the cover of Hunger. In October 2021, she was featured on Billboard's 21 under 21 list for 2021 and People's One to Watch list for 2021. McRae was featured on the cover of Numéro in November 2021. By the end of 2021, Too Young to Be Sad had amassed over 1 billion Spotify streams, becoming the most streamed EP of 2021 by a female artist on Spotify. The EP was nominated for Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year at the 2022 Juno Awards.
On November 11, 2021, McRae released "Feel Like Shit", the lead single from her debut studio album I Used to Think I Could Fly, which was released on May 27, 2022. In January 2022, she was nominated for three iHeart Radio Awards.
"She's All I Wanna Be", the second single from the album, was released on February 4, 2022. The song reached the top 10 in Canada, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, and Belgium. It also charted in the Top 40 in several countries. It debuted at number 52 in the US, becoming her highest debut on the Hot 100 at the time. In February 2022, McRae was announced as a brand ambassador for Maybelline and the face of their new Vinyl Ink liquid lip color.
McRae released "Chaotic", the third single from the album on March 25, 2022, and released "What Would You Do?" as the fourth single on May 13, 2022. On June 3, 2022, Tate released a music video for her single "don't come back" exclusively via TikTok, and later released the vertical version of the video on July 11, 2022, on YouTube.
In September 2022, McRae released the single "uh oh". In November 2022, Tate was featured on "10:35" by Tiësto, a promo-single for the opening of the luxury resort Atlantis the Royal, Dubai. The song became her second UK Top 10. It reached the Top 10 in ten other countries.
McRae was nominated for five Juno Awards in 2023, and performed at the show. In March 2023, McRae teamed up with MCM Worldwide for their Spring/Summer 2023 Campaign, performing "uh oh" and "She's All I Wanna Be". On September 15, 2023, she released "Greedy" as the lead single for her sophomore studio album Think Later, which was released December 8, 2023. The song became her biggest debut to date on Spotify, and her first top 10 on the Global Spotify Charts. It debuted at number 1 in Norway and Denmark and peaked at number 1 in several countries including Canada, Denmark, Austria, and the Netherlands, as well as the Billboard Global 200, making it her first official number 1 single worldwide.
McRae released her sophomore studio album, Think Later, on December 8, 2023. The album received positive reviews and was described as a "career-defining shift" for McRae. It debuted in the top five of the charts worldwide including number four on the US Billboard 200, earning 66,000 album-eqyivalent units in its first week, of which 8,000 were pure album sales; This marked McRae’s first top-ten album in the US. McRae won the Juno Award for Artist of the Year, and Single of the Year for "Greedy" at the 2024 Juno Awards.
The second single from the album, "Exes", was released on November 17, 2023, so far reaching the top 10 in Canada and the Netherlands, top 20 in the UK and Australia, and top 40 in the US. In late 2023, McRae made her Saturday Night Live debut performing "Greedy", and a then-unreleased song titled "Grave". Throughout the rest of 2023 and early 2024, McRae went on to perform "Greedy" at various award shows including the Billboard Music Awards, the 2024 NHL Star Game, the BRIt Awards, and the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
In September 2024, McRae released the single "It's OK I'm OK" which found commercial success, charting in several countries worldwide and becoming her highest charting debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20. She followed with a second single "2 Hands" in November which peaked at number 41 on the Hot 100 and 22 in Canada. Alongside the second single, McRae announced her third studio album, So Close to What, released on February 21, 2025, along with plans for the Miss Possessive Tour, to launch a month after the album's release. "So Close To What" became McRae's first number 1 on Billboard 200. It debuted at number one on the chart. Her third single, "Sports Car", was released on January 24, 2025.
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