"RAYE - I Will Overcome. (Live at Abbey Road Studios)" brings an orchestra, a choir and a substantial band into the credits. Tom Richards conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, with Flames Collective supplying the choral voices. The performance has reached nearly 600,000 views since arriving just before this upload-free week.
It also gives RAYE's recent catalog a different center of attention from the "Joy." collaboration we wrote about in September. That video, featuring Amma and Absolutely, remains busy, but the Abbey Road performance is drawing slightly more daily views.
The strongest daily momentum belongs to "RAYE - 'Click Clack Symphony.' feat. Hans Zimmer (Official Video)". Zimmer, whose film scores include Inception and Interstellar, shares composition and production credits here. The recording uses the Nashville Music Scoring Orchestra, while Dave Meyers directs the video. Between that production, Abbey Road's London Symphony Orchestra and the big band and strings on "Joy.", these are arrangements with plenty of names on the music stands.
RAYE added about 10,000 subscribers over seven days despite posting nothing new. Nearby singer-songwriter channels had different kinds of weeks: JohnMichaelHowell gained subscribers too, while doddleoddle's count stayed unchanged. For RAYE, the fresh point of interest is a live performance carrying that expansive studio sound into Abbey Road.