Fortunate Daye is now a platinum-selling artist. The Grammy winner’s single “Over,” produced by D’Mile, has bought a million equal items within the U.S., as licensed by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America (RIAA).
“Over” marks Daye’s first platinum award from the RIAA and his second award general. His 2018 debut single, “Roll Some Mo,” was licensed gold in Could 2021 for promoting 500,000 equal items.
Circling again to “Over,” it was launched because the lead single from Daye’s sophomore album, Candydrip. Each Candydrip and “Over” scored Daye Grammy nominations for Greatest R&B Album and Greatest R&B Efficiency on the sixty fifth Grammy Awards.
He earned three further nods for writing on Mary J. Blige’s Good Morning Attractive and Beyoncé’s Renaissance albums, together with two Album of the 12 months nods and Greatest R&B Music (Blige’s “Good Morning Attractive“).
“Over,” which samples Musiq Soulchild’s “Halfcrazy,” is Daye’s hottest monitor on Spotify with greater than 124.6 million streams. In the meantime, the official music video, which stars Jordyn Woods, has garnered over 25 million views on YouTube.
Candydrip was launched on March 10, 2022, through Hold Cool/RCA Data. The album debuted and peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s Prime R&B Albums chart. In December, Daye adopted up with Candydrip (Deluxe), which featured 4 further tracks.
The usual version of Candydrip was ranked No. 1 on Rated R&B’s 30 Greatest R&B Albums of 2022 checklist. “[Candydrip] is designed as a well-stocked sweet dish. If a listener reaches in and is aimless with their alternative, they may possible choose one thing totally different each time. To expertise Daye’s Candydrip is to pick an revolutionary taste, as he beforehand identified,” wrote Rated R&B’s Jakori Beauchamp.
Daye supported his second album on his headlining Candydrip Tour. The New Orleans, Louisiana, native has extra reveals this yr, together with Power of a Girl Pageant and Roots Picnic.
On a music entrance, he’ll seem on Victoria Monét’s new single “Smoke,” which releases March 24.
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