Lady Blackbird

Data updated on 2025-06-13 08:16:48 UTC

Lady Blackbird was raised in a religious Christian household and began singing as soon as she could walk. “Once I entered my teenage years, I started to realise that religion was something that was put on me and it never felt right,” she says. “As I also began to develop my own identity as a queer woman, I felt judged as an outcast and labelled as a sinner. It was burying who I really was and I needed to find a way out.” In taking charge of her own life & her own sound, Lady Blackbird walks a new path, making each note on her latest album Slang Spirituals a step in a radically different direction. Across 11 tracks, she puts her sweeping, cinematic vocal power to use on everything from the soulful orchestral fanfares of ‘Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)’ to the finger-picking folk storytelling of ‘Man On A Boat’, euphoric gospel empowerment of ‘Like A Woman’ & the seven-minute psychedelic soul instrumentation of ‘When The Game Is Played On You’. After recently making her welcomed return, which included a performance as part of Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre in June 2024, as well as a sold out residency at LA’s Sun Rose on Sunset Strip and a European support slot with Moby, Lady Blackbird makes her return with her brand new studio album Slang Spirituals, out now on BMG. “This is my journey of becoming,” she concludes. “It’s me rewriting the book to show the world who I truly am. From being labelled a sinner to finding my freedom.”

Genres

: retro soul

Total plays

42.7 million

Updated on 2025-06-13

Date	Total plays
2025-06-13	42,723,454
2025-06-05	42,477,733
2025-05-27	42,191,984
2025-05-19	41,917,187
2025-05-04	41,260,991
2025-04-25	40,950,171
2025-04-15	40,650,109
2025-04-07	40,385,338
2025-03-30	40,122,711
2025-03-22	39,860,188
2025-03-12	39,517,626
2025-03-04	39,233,794
2025-02-23	38,912,606
2025-02-14	38,571,138
2025-02-06	38,255,729
2025-01-26	37,839,394
2025-01-17	37,523,421
2025-01-09	37,241,389
2024-12-31	36,883,531
2024-12-22	36,319,705
2024-12-14	35,844,831
2024-11-25	34,801,859
2024-06-11	28,726,482
2024-05-31	28,436,334
2024-05-16	28,137,499
2024-04-29	27,768,216
2024-04-14	27,400,835
2024-03-30	26,918,011
2024-03-15	26,364,928
2024-02-29	26,103,425
2024-02-15	25,845,786
2023-11-29	23,879,226
2023-10-20	23,104,176
2023-10-03	22,777,263
2023-09-18	22,469,698
2023-08-29	22,082,056
2023-08-25	22,002,170
2023-08-21	21,794,506

Country

United States

Social media links

Monthly listeners

296,842

Followers

73,061

Top Cities

London

6,260 listeners
Amsterdam

7,035 listeners
Berlin

4,109 listeners
Rotterdam

4,186 listeners
Hamburg

3,314 listeners

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Most popular tracks

Track	Plays	Duration	Release date
Five Feet Tall	4,770,018	3:21	2021-09-03
It'll Never Happen Again	3,220,125	3:39	2021-08-13
This Winter	2,706,400	2:54	2021-11-19
Feel It Comin (Single Version)	1,996,957	3:26	2022-09-21
Blackbird	1,674,957	4:01	2020-05-27
Woman (Single Edit)	1,650,291	3:03	2023-01-27
Fix It	1,568,797	4:51	2021-09-03
dark days	1,547,532	3:33	2024-03-19
It's Not That Easy	1,225,344	3:00	2021-07-16
Collage	1,185,841	3:17	2020-10-16
Walk With Me - Resound NYC Version	1,056,719	5:44	2023-03-03
The Love That Once Lingered - feat. Lady Blackbird	938,011	3:55	2023-05-12
Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)	879,626	4:26	2024-08-01
Beware the Stranger	795,526	4:14	2021-09-03
High Above (feat. Lady Blackbird)	747,244	2:56	2024-12-06
Man on a Boat	746,612	3:03	2024-07-19
Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You	730,531	4:52	2022-07-27
Collage - Greg Foat Remix	724,525	4:03	2021-05-07
Deathloop: Pitch Black (Original Trailer Soundtrack)	724,170	3:23	2021-09-13
Woman (Single Version)	712,400	3:14	2022-10-28
Lost and Looking	703,934	4:22	2021-09-03
Collage - Calibre Remix	671,002	6:09	2021-05-07
Nobody's Sweetheart	634,272	3:38	2021-09-03
Ruler of my Heart	624,425	3:43	2021-09-03
Reborn	612,810	3:22	2024-06-05
Like a Woman	605,530	4:26	2024-09-13
Sunlight (Edit) (feat. Lady Blackbird)	598,900	3:16	2021-11-12
Collage - Bruise Remix	578,154	6:22	2021-05-07
dark days (Tonic Walter Remix)	553,380	6:12	2024-08-29
Beware The Stranger	545,612	4:28	2020-07-24
Don’t Wanna Be Normal (feat. Lady Blackbird)	542,902	3:32	2022-07-06
Slave To The Rhythm	487,755	4:17	2023-09-22
Black Acid Soul	433,275	3:54	2021-09-03
Pitch Black	422,736	3:26	2021-11-16
Children (What Time It Is)	414,517	3:42	2023-10-13
I Am What I Am	384,433	4:44	2022-10-28
Baby I Just Don't	345,193	3:27	2022-10-28
High Above Continued	339,824	4:07	2025-05-02
Lost and Looking (Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy Cosmodelica Remix)	338,503	3:42	2022-01-21
Walk With Me - Always Centered At Night Version	262,797	4:11	2023-03-03
dark days (Reznik Remix)	216,007	5:27	2024-08-29
Collage (KDA vs Lady Blackbird) - Radio Edit	179,382	3:28	2021-05-07
Collage - Greg Foat Instrumental	149,919	3:56	2021-05-07
Feel It Comin (Benga & Sam Frank Remix) (Edit)	141,261	4:00	2022-12-09
Someday We'll Be Free	131,087	4:48	2024-09-13
Fontella	120,053	4:20	2023-01-13
Room With A View	105,869	3:23	2023-10-20
The City	104,514	4:27	2024-09-13
Blackbird - Emma-Jean Thackray Remix	103,425	4:23	2020-07-03
When the Game Is Played On You	102,681	7:12	2024-09-13
If I Told You	100,546	4:27	2024-09-13
Yoshi's Highway (feat. Lady Blackbird)	98,015	5:43	2022-05-20
Collage (KDA vs Lady Blackbird) - Banger Dub Edit	87,463	4:02	2021-05-07
dark days (tonic walter remix)	86,237	5:44	2024-08-15
No One Can Love Me (Like You Do)	83,823	3:09	2024-09-13
Sunlight (feat. Lady Blackbird)	83,304	5:04	2021-11-12
Matter of Time	82,418	3:58	2024-09-13
Collage - Greg Foat Radio Edit	73,311	3:19	2021-05-07
Whatever His Name	58,847	8:24	2024-09-13
Beware The Stranger (Chris Seefried's Ambient Excursion) [feat. Trombone Shorty]	55,982	8:28	2021-05-05
Beware The Stranger - Ashley Beedle's 'North Street West' Radio Edit	53,934	4:35	2021-05-05
It'll Never Happen Again (Zach Witness Remix)	53,919	6:16	2021-10-15
Blackbird - Foremost Poets Adventure Mix	53,698	12:51	2021-05-03
dark days (analog remix)	47,971	6:23	2024-09-12
Don' Wanna Be Normal - Sunship Dub	47,408	4:60	2022-08-19
Beware the Stranger (Chris Seefried Remix) (Edit)	47,118	3:46	2022-10-28
Blackbird - Foremost Poets Remix	46,673	7:45	2021-05-03
dark days (Undercatt Remix)	44,810	4:29	2024-08-29
Sunlight (Special Request Remix)	43,585	7:43	2023-04-28
Collage (Bruise Remix) (Edit)	40,645	3:42	2022-10-28
Beware the Stranger (Gil Cang Tuff Scout Remix)	35,071	4:19	2022-10-28
It'll Never Happen Again (Zach Witness Remix) (Edit)	32,108	3:58	2021-12-10
Fontella - Crooked Dub	31,073	13:06	2023-03-24
Beware The Stranger - Ashley Beedle's 'North Street West' Vocal Remix	30,365	8:35	2021-05-05
dark days (Vanco Remix)	28,691	6:45	2024-08-29
dark days - Nitefreak remix	26,557	5:16	2024-12-06
Beware The Stranger (Chris Seefried's Ambient Excursion) [feat. Trombone Shorty] - Radio Edit	26,547	4:03	2021-05-05
Collage - Bruise Dub	26,348	7:29	2021-05-07
Don't Wanna Be Normal - Sunship Edit	23,820	3:13	2022-08-19
Beware The Stranger - Matthew Herbert's Wanted Remix	20,984	7:46	2021-05-05
dark days - dub mix	19,848	3:56	2024-12-06
Feel It Comin (Benga & Sam Frank Remix) (Extended Mix)	18,314	6:25	2022-12-09
Beware The Stranger - Matthew Herbert’s Wanted Radio Edit	14,690	3:57	2021-05-05
dark days - analog remix	10,939	6:35	2024-12-06
dark days - remix 2	9,948	5:17	2024-12-06
Beware The Stranger - Matthew Herbert's Wanted Instrumental	9,364	7:48	2021-05-05
Fontella (feat. Lady Blackbird) - Short & Crooked	6,318	3:53	2023-03-24
Fontella - Crookedlectro	3,907	7:46	2023-03-24
Fontella (feat. Lady Blackbird) - Theiz Remix Vocal Dub	3,077	5:55	2023-03-24