Freya Ridings (album)

Freya Ridings is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Freya Ridings, released on 19 July 2019 through Good Soldier Songs and AWAL.^[1] It includes the singles "Lost Without You", which reached the UK top ten, as well as the lead single "Blackout", "Ultraviolet", "You Mean the World to Me" and "Castles".^[1] It was also supported by the promotional single "Unconditional". It was named one of nine albums to look forward to in 2019 by Smooth Radio.^[2] The album debuted inside the top 3 in the UK and Scotland's official charts, and has charted in countries like Germany and Ireland.

Freya Ridings
Studio album by Freya Ridings
Released	19 July 2019 (2019-07-19)
Length	41:52
Label	Good Soldier Songs AWAL
Producer	Freya Ridings (exec.) Ollie Green Alex H. N. Gilbert Carey Willetts Mark Crew Dan Priddy Luke Fitton Dan Nigro Yves Rothman Greg Kurstin Dave Bassett Chris Braide
Freya Ridings chronology
You Mean the World to Me (2019) Freya Ridings (2019) Blood Orange (2023)
Singles from Freya Ridings
"Blackout" Released: 5 May 2017 "Lost Without You" Released: 3 November 2017 "Ultraviolet" Released: 15 June 2018 "You Mean the World to Me" Released: 1 March 2019 "Castles" Released: 30 May 2019 "Love Is Fire" Released: 29 November 2019

Background

Ridings stated that because the album was written over "such a long period of time", its "universal theme" is "loneliness", as she was "isolated" growing up and would play music on her school's pianos at lunchtime and "tell the kind of stories you would tell to a friend to the piano".^[3]

Commercial performance

Freya Ridings debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number three, with sales of 14,779 units.^[4]

Track listing

Adapted from iTunes.^[1]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Poison"	Freya Ridings	Ollie Green Carey Willetts Alex H. N. Gilbert	4:05
2.	"Lost Without You"	Ridings	Green	3:45
3.	"Castles"	Ridings Daniel Nigro	Nigro Mark Crew Dan Priddy Yves Rothman	3:31
4.	"You Mean the World to Me"	Ridings Kieron McIntosh	Greg Kurstin	3:12
5.	"Love Is Fire"	Ridings Michael Busbee	Crew Priddy Dave Bassett	3:31
6.	"Holy Water"	Ridings Matthew Morris Alexander Evert Alexander Tirheimer	Green Willetts Gilbert	3:43
7.	"Blackout"	Ridings Ollie Green	Green Gilbert	2:54
8.	"Ultraviolet"	Ridings Luke Fitton	Fitton	3:35
9.	"Still Have You"	Ridings Christopher Braide	Braide Green Gilbert	3:53
10.	"Unconditional"	Ridings	Green Gilbert	3:17
11.	"Elephant"	Ridings Fitton	Fitton Green Gilbert	3:14
12.	"Wishbone"	Ridings Jonathan Wright	Willetts	3:12
Total length:				41:52

Charts

Chart performance for Freya Ridings

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[5]	19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[6]	49
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[7]	27
Irish Albums (IRMA)[8]	18
Scottish Albums (OCC)[9]	3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[10]	19
UK Albums (OCC)[11]	3
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[12]	16

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[13]	Gold	100,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.