So Close to What by Tate McRae

So Close to What, Tate McRae's third studio album, landed on RCA on February 21, 2025, and it's the record where the Canadian former dancer stopped knocking on pop's door and simply walked in. She co-wrote it with a stack of in-demand producers, Ryan Tedder, Blake Slatkin, Lostboy, Emile Haynie, Ilya and Rob Bisel among them, and the songs slink between dance-pop, power pop and R&B with the precision of someone who learned rhythm with her feet before her voice.

"It's OK I'm OK", "2 Hands" and "Sports Car" went out ahead of it, "Revolving Door" arrived alongside, and a deluxe edition, So Close to What???, added "Tit for Tat" that November. After Think Later and its smash "Greedy", this one went further still: it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, her first album to do that, topped the charts from Canada and Australia to Norway, and sent her out on her first arena tour, the Miss Possessive Tour.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.