The BRIT Awards 2026 introduced that international pop sensation RAYE has joined the performing line-up for this 12 months’s present.
The BRIT record-breaker, who was essentially the most nominated artist in 2024, is the most recent artist to be introduced for what’s shaping as much as be “the biggest BRITs ever,” because the present heads to the Co-op Live in Manchester this Saturday, Feb. 28.
Other stay performers on the night time moreover RAYE embrace Harry Styles, Olivia Dean, Wolf Alice, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, the singing voices of HUNTR/X, Alex Warren, Mark Ronson, ROSALÍA and SOMBR.
With two nominations this 12 months, for Song of the Year and Pop Act, BRIT School- graduate RAYE has cemented her standing as one of the vital very important artists of her technology. Her long-awaited impartial debut album, My twenty first Century Blues, made a right away influence, debuting at Number 2 on the UK Album Chart and spawning the chart-topping ‘Escapism’ that includes 070 Shake, which turned the biggest-selling single by a British feminine artist within the UK in 2023.
In 2024, she made BRITs historical past by breaking the file for essentially the most nominations in a single 12 months and subsequently breaking the file for many wins in a single night time, taking dwelling an unprecedented six awards: Mastercard Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Best New Artist, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year with Mastercard and R&B Act, inserting her firmly within the BRITs historical past books.
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Since then, she secured a Grammy win, a number-one on the UK Singles Chart for “Where Is My Husband”, and introduced her upcoming album, This Music May Contain Hope, marking the subsequent chapter in her inventive evolution. She’s at the moment taking her celebrated catalogue and new music on the street for a 51-date “This Tour May Contain New Music” world tour.
The European leg of the tour kicked off Jan. 22 at Poland’s Atlas Arena, and has since arrived on UK shores. Highlights from the European leg embrace a bought out Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 11, the place RAYE moved 13,500 tickets at a $1,657,840 gross, in line with the field workplace report submitted to Pollstar for the present. The day earlier than, she bought out Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany (15,848 tickets, $1,334,307 gross).
Her first UK exhibits have been at Manchester’s Co-op Live, the place she’ll be returning to this Saturday for the BRITs. Across two nights, Feb. 17-18, RAYE bought 35,049 tickets, grossing $3,108,878.
The BRIT Awards 2026, sponsored by Mastercard, will happen on Saturday twenty eighth February from Manchester’s Co-op Live.
Leading the cost for this 12 months’s nominations are Olivia Dean and Lola Young with 5 nominations every, intently adopted by Sam Fender with 4 nominations following his Mercury Prize win final 12 months. Other British artists up for awards this 12 months embrace Lily Allen, Calvin Harris, JADE, Wolf Alice, Ed Sheeran, Little Simz, PinkPantheress, RAYE, Skye Newman, Wet Leg and extra. British icons Pulp have obtained their first nomination since 1996.
