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  • January 23, 2025
A look at the singer’s rise to pop stardom

A look at the singer’s rise to pop stardom

Gracie Abrams is establishing herself as a pop girl to watch.

Less than 24 hours after opening for Taylor Swift at the finalEras tourshow in Vancouver, Canada, Abrams announced on December 9 that she would embark on the North American leg of her upcoming ‘The Secret of Us Deluxe Tour’.

Since releasing her second album, The secret of usIn June 2024, the pop singer’s career continues to reach new heights. Whether she’s joining her “Us” collaborator and mentor Taylor Swift on stage as the opening act during the North American legs of her “Eras Tour” or earning her first-ever Billboard No. 1 with “That’s So True,” Abrams has she already has several career milestones to her name. It seems like she won’t be stopping anytime soon.

For her Saturday evening live debut on December 14, you can look back at the “Close to You” singer’s rise to pop stardom in recent months.

While touring with Swift’s ‘Eras ​​Tour,’ Abrams debuts her second studio album, The secret of uswith the singles ‘Risk’, ‘Close to You’ and ‘I Love You, I’m Sorry’. The secret of us comes just a year after Abrams’ first studio album, 2023’s Tidy and tidy, was released.

“The energy of the music I made this year feels like running home to tell your best friend every detail of your night,” Abrams shared. Elle before you let it go The secret of us. “This time there’s almost a satirical, dramatic element to the music – not that I haven’t been obscenely, obscenely dramatic in the past, but I was laughing while writing these songs.”

A week after release, The secret of us skyrockets to No. 1 in Britain and Australia, becoming Abrams’ first chart-topping album of her career. Abrams’ sophomore performance surpasses Great Britain’s Official album list and that of Australia ARIA’s Top 10 Album Chart.

“I can’t ignore it,” Abrams wrote on Instagram about the milestone. “I’m just grateful to all of you. I can’t wait to come and play the songs together.”

Abrams scores another first: her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart. The secret of us According to data from Luminate, it will sell 50,000 copies in the United States in the week ending June 27. The album’s success in its first week is largely attributed to the release of its seven vinyl variants – all color variations, two of which were only available from Abrams’ online store. Vinyl sales comprise 41,000 of the album’s total sales that week.

The 25-year-old singer announces the tour dates in UK and Europe in support of The secret of us. Abrams’ four-and-a-half-week tour kicks off in Madrid in February 2025 and ends in Glasgow, Scotland on March 12.

Abrams’ music video for the single “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” written and directed by her close friend and collaborator, Audrey Hobert, features her spending a summer day with friends before accepting the “Asshole of the Year” award .

The ‘Us’ singer-songwriter announces she takes “The Secret of Us Tour” to Australia and New Zealand. Beginning April 29, 2025, Abrams will visit six cities, including Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia over the course of two weeks.

Abrams takes the stage in Portland, Oregon, for the first of 23 sold-out shows of “The Secret of Us Tour.”

“Portland thank you so much for being our first show back,” she captioned one post on Instagram. “I feel so lucky to know you.”

Abrams Releases The secret of our Deluxe album with seven additional songs she teased on Instagram just days earlier. The extensive track list consists of four new songs and three live versions, including ‘That’s So True’, ‘I Told You Things’ and ‘I Love You, I’m Sorry (Live From Vevo)’.

Abrams rejoins Swift in Miami as her opening act for the remaining “Eras Tour” dates. The “Close to You” singer initially joined Swift on the “Eras Tour” from March to August 2023.

Gracie Abrams performs.Gracie Abrams performs.

Gracie Abrams during the “Eras Tour” on October 18. (John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management) (John Shearer/TAS24 via Getty Images)

“I will never forget what this felt like,” Abrams wrote on Instagram after her return. “Being back on this tour feels like coming home.”

Ahead of the 2024 election, Abrams attends Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to performing “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” Abrams is urging Generation Z voters to support the Harris-Walz campaign. “a very difficult time.”

“It’s easy to get discouraged, but we know better. We know that unless we vote and keep our democracy intact, we can’t do anything to solve the problem when it’s our turn,” Abrams said. the crowd told.

Abrams scores her second ever Grammy nomination prior to the Awards ceremony 2025. She has been nominated together with Swift for Best pop duo/group performance for “Us,” their duet on AbramsThe secret of our Deluxe.

Gracie Abrams, crouched to the right, joins Taylor Swift on stage.Gracie Abrams, crouched to the right, joins Taylor Swift on stage.

Gracie Abrams joins Taylor Swift in Toronto on November 16. (TAS2024/Getty Images) (TAS2024/Getty Images)

During the “Eras Tour” show in Toronto on November 16, Swift remembered the moment she and Abrams found out they had been nominated.

“You can’t even imagine the phone conversation between the two of us when the nominations were announced and we saw that that song was nominated,” she said. “It was just screaming. It wasn’t even words, it was just wild screaming throughout the entire conversation.”

That evening, Abrams joined the ‘Fortnight’ pop star on stage during her acoustic set to perform a mash-up of ‘Us’ and Swift’s. 1989 single ‘Out of the woods’. The Swift-assisted song debuted at Number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“That’s So True”, a bonus track from The secret of our Deluxebecomes Abrams’ first No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming numbers table. According to data from Luminate, the song sits at number one after generating 23.5 million streams, up 25%, in the week ending November 14. The song also gives Abrams her money. first top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching sixth place with 24 million streams and nearly 2 million airplay viewership impressions, Luminate also reported.

Abrams accompanies Gladiator II star Paul Mescal to the afterparty of the film’s premiere in Los Angeles, celebrating the first time the pair attended a public event as a couple. The “Us” singer and Normal people star have been romantically linked since June 2024.

Abrams will go to Asia for the first time with “The Secret of Us Tour” in 2025. Ahead of her Australian tour, Abrams announces she will play seven shows in cities including Seoul, South Korea, Tokyo and Bangkok in April.

Before Abrams performs her final “Eras Tour” on December 8 in Vancouver, Canada, she reads an emotional speech to the audience in which she admits that she “not ready for it to be over.”

“Like all of you, I grew up listening to Taylor’s songs,” she says. “Magically, I needed a moment in my life that I thought no one could understand or know, or hurt or long for or love or lose, and yet she did.”

Abrams announces on Instagram that she will be touring North America again, this time in support of The secret of our Deluxe album. She will play venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. This will be Abrams’ first headline arena tour.