Maisie Peters

British singer/songwriter Maisie Peters built a broad YouTube audience during the mid-2010s through her melodic acoustic folk-pop material and youthful appeal. At age 17 she issued her first single, “Place We Were Made,” in 2017; the track quickly went viral and accumulated millions of streams. Over the following two years she issued the EPs Dressed Too Nice for a Jacket (2018) and It’s Your Bed Babe, It’s Your Funeral (2019), both of which reflected a steadily maturing pop sensibility. In 2022 her debut album You Signed Up for This entered the U.K. Top Ten; subsequent singles such as “Cate’s Brother” and “Body Better” followed, the latter appearing on her 2023 chart-topping release The Good Witch.

A natural storyteller who penned her debut song at nine, the West Sussex native began posting original material on YouTube in 2015 and soon attracted listeners who compared her work to that of Birdy and Taylor Swift—the latter an early influence Peters herself has acknowledged. When “Place We Were Made” appeared in summer 2017, her established supporters propelled the song to viral status and widespread airplay. Later that year she offered the spare piano ballad “Birthday,” then shifted toward a glossier pop sound with 2018’s “Worst of You.” By the close of the year she had released her first EP, Dressed Too Nice for a Jacket.

The 2019 single “Favorite Ex” returned Peters to acoustic folk roots, whereas It’s Your Bed Babe, It’s Your Funeral embraced a full pop production. A sequence of standalone tracks arrived in 2020—“Smile,” “Daydreams,” and “Sad Girl Summer”—followed in 2021 by “Funeral,” a collaboration with James Bay featured on the soundtrack for season two of the Apple TV+ series Trying. That August she unveiled her first full-length album, You Signed Up for This, which peaked at number two on the U.K. chart, driven in part by lead single “Psycho.” Additional non-album releases included “Cate’s Brother” and “Not Another Rockstar” in 2022.

In 2023 Peters issued The Good Witch, becoming the youngest solo British female artist to top the U.K. album chart in nearly ten years. The set contained the hits “Body Better” and “Lost the Breakup” and marked her first appearance on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart.