West Lothian music duo, LF SYSTEM, proceed to take the UK charts by storm with their gold licensed single, ‘Afraid To Really feel’, which may very well be the longest working UK primary by any Scottish artist in six years.
The pair knocked 80s icon, Kate Bush, off the highest of the charts again in June, the place she noticed a three-week run along with her 1985 single ‘Working Up That Hill’.
And up to now the West Lothian duo have reached over 45 million UK streams.
The tune has simply hit a million World Shazams and is now on monitor to assert the longest working primary Dance Report ever.
Now making ready to safe their sixth week on the prime - which might cement the pair as the primary Scottish artists in six years to carry the highest spot for as lengthy.
The tune has dominated the British airwaves because it was launched - being topped as Clara Amfo’s Hottest Report on Radio 1’s Future Sounds earlier than being named as Radio 1’s Tune of the Week.
It then went on to change into probably the most performed monitor on Radio 1, Kiss FM and Capital - with tens of millions of video views on TikTok.
They’ll be in for some robust competitors nonetheless, as they hope to fend off the platinum-selling Beyoncé after she launched her new album ‘Renaissance’ on the finish of final month.
The pair have taken the UK music scene by storm - after solely assembly two years in the past, and quitting their day jobs simply two months in the past.
Conor Larkman and Sean Finnigan - or LF SYSTEM as they’re identified within the scene, met at a membership night time in Edinburgh taking part in again to again units, and rapidly joined forces to launch their very own tracks.
Since then their newest single, Afraid To Really feel, has change into a staple of festivals and golf equipment up and down the nation since its launch originally of summer season.
LF SYSTEM commented: “We might by no means have imagined in our wildest desires how wonderful this journey could be.
“We solely left our day jobs a few months in the past and now we now have a Gold licensed single and are flying the flag for Scotland with the longest working Scottish #1 in fairly a while.
“To be in the identical dialog as Lewis Capaldi and one among our idols, Calvin Harris, in addition to competing with the likes of Beyoncé, Drake, Kate Bush, George Ezra and hundreds extra of huge worldwide artists, is an actual dream come true.”
Their first single ‘Dancing Cliché’ was a favorite with names like Ewan McVicar, Elliott Adamson, Danny Howard and TSHA, and later obtained a full industrial launch by Warner Information and spent 6 weeks on the Radio 1 playlist.
The remainder of the 12 months holds LF SYSTEM’s first ever bought out London headline present at Night time Tales, a particular visitor look alongside Gorgon Metropolis at their Realm tour in Liverpool and a set at The Warehouse Challenge’s legendary Halloween get together in Manchester.
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