RAYE Apologizes To Fans Who Bought Her New Album On Vinyl Because It’s Not The Final Mix

RAYE just dropped her sophomore album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. last week. The UK soul-pop singer has the sort of broad appeal that makes her a shoo-in for awards shows and a TikTok hitmaker; that formula, combined with fact that vinyl popularity continues to grow, means there's a lot of people who've already purchased physical editions of RAYE's album. RAYE has an apology for those people.

RAYE did an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe that went live yesterday. Near the end, RAYE starting talking about the "beautiful but agonizing" process of trying to lock down a final mix of your songs. That led her to apologize to folks who already purchased her album on vinyl because it's not the final mix you hear on streaming. She said:

My vinyl is a first edition. I really apologize... I'm apologizing to anyone who's purchased an album. Because you are getting the album. It's not a fraudulent album. However it is a first edition. I want you to know the digital versions of some of these songs — some are quite different. And you just need to embrace that because I tried my best.

RAYE added that future presses of the album will be the same mix you hear in the digital version. "Maybe there's a positive spin," she joked. "It's a collectible edition." Incidentally, RAYE already had to issue an apology to fans in February when 65 of her Paris concertgoers — who purchased their tickets from Ticketmaster — were denied entry and told their legitimate tickets were fraudulent.