Raye Apologizes to Fans Over Vinyl Mishap

has been forced to apologise to her fans after a mishap with the vinyl for her new album - as she insisted 'it is not fraudulent'.

The Where is My Husband! hitmaker's second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope, was released last month and she scored her second UK Number 1 with its first single.

Raye, 28, has now

However she admitted the This Music May Contain Hope LP was pressed before it was finalised, so buyers of the vinyl have received a 'first edition' that differs from the digital version of the tracks.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, she said: 'My vinyl is a first edition. I really apologise… 

'I'm apologising 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 poured 'a lifetime's worth of work' into the record and pushed herself to the brink in the process after taking full creative control, acting as executive producer and writing every lyric and melody while working with orchestras, big bands and a huge cast of musicians.

She confessed: 'It's taken every blood cell.

'If I wasn't on a stage, I was pouring into this body of work. I'm honestly exhausted — mentally and physically — but in a good way. It's been a labour of absolute passion and love.'

Raye also revealed that the album became a quiet act of rebellion after years spent writing to order for other artists.

She said: 'There's a subconscious rebellion in there.

'For so long everything had to be simple, minimal, to brief — this BPM, this length, this vibe. It was a miserable existence for me.'

She added that being told she 'didn't know who she was' only fuelled the fire, saying: 'How can I define myself when you keep sending me into rooms with strangers to write top lines in a day?'

The star said she refused to shrink herself to fit the industry's expectations.

She insisted: 'I'm not just one thing. I've grown up with many cultures — my identity isn't one thing. 

'So how can you ask me to choose one thing? On this record I embraced maximalism… any genre I wanted to explore, I did.'

It comes after Raye shared a very public tribute to her past heartbreak in a hilarious video.

She posted a clip of herself last month showing off a blue plaque at The Nightingale pub on Nightingale Lane in South London.

The blue plaque, traditionally installed on buildings in the UK to commemorate a connection between that location and a famous person, read: 'RAYE experienced the greatest heartbreak she has ever known here 27 February 2019.'

The video showed the laughing star, clad in a fur coat and carrying a Chanel bag, clutching a pint of beer as she pointed out the sign, with the caption reading: 'Put a nice plaque on my ex's fav pub so he'll never forget.'

She added it is 'my dramatic era #cheers' and soundtracked the video with a snippet of her new song. 

Raye's new single Nightingale Lane, from her upcoming album This Music May Contain Hope, is an ode to the Tooting street near where she grew up, with the intro declaring: 'This is a song about the greatest heartbreak I have ever known.'

The chorus flows into the pain of saying goodbye to her 'first love' as Raye sings: 'It was right there, in June, next to Old Park Avenue, standing in the rain, I watched him walk away.'

Raye hasn't named the 'first love' and is known for keeping her love life private.  

But in her September 2025 cover story with Vogue she made some rare comments about the heartbreak, admitting that since that relationship ended two years ago she has been 'single for so long'.

'My last devastating break-up was four, five years ago. I was like, "I'm gonna marry him",' she admitted. 

'We was together for two years and it ended up not working out. I have never experienced a more crippling emotion.

'It took me three, four years to get over him. Like, I can’t allow myself to fall in love again until it's safe.'