"You Broke Me First" is also the longest-charting song released by a female artist in 2020 on the Billboard Hot 100, at 38 weeks. The track peaked at number 2 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and number 1 on the US Mediabase top 40 chart, becoming her first number one single and breaking the record for the longest climb to number 1 by a female solo artist at 28 weeks on the latter chart. When it reached number 40 in its 20th week, the song attained the third-slowest climb to the top 40 by a female artist, after Norah Jones's "Don't Know Why" and KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See". In the United States, the song would also become her first chart entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 17. In New Zealand, the song entered at number 18 on the Hot Singles Chart upon its initial release, before debuting at number 34 on the New Zealand Singles Chart several weeks later amid its popularization. The song later peaked at number three on the chart. In the Republic of Ireland, the song entered the Irish Singles Chart three weeks before and eventually rose to number nine, becoming the first top ten peak in her career. In the United Kingdom, "You Broke Me First" debuted at number 66 on the UK Singles Chart and later climbed to number five on the chart, becoming McRae's first top ten entry in Britain. McRae reacted to the acclaim from fans and critics, saying she was "super happy that other people are connecting with the song too." Commercial performance Multiple critics wrote that the song was McRae's most personal to date, with some describing it as a "hard-hitting ballad". ”You Broke Me First” received critical acclaim from critics, who praised McRae's vocal performance, the production and honest lyricism. This song is written in the key of C# Minor. McRae also revealed to Hollywood Life that the song is lyrically connected to its single successor, " Vicious". It's the feeling of knowing how much they meant to you, but this time not letting them back in." "This song is about someone in a relationship who couldn't care less for the other person and then 6 months later decides to crawl back. Through the song, McRae expresses that she refuses to feel sympathetic for an ex-partner. She says that writing and recording the song was a "super quick process". McRae recalls her lyric "But I don't really care how bad it hurts, cause you broke me first" being praised by songwriter Victoria Zaro and producer Blake Harnage while in the studio. The song was made explicit on Spotify in June 2022, two years after its official release.
Outside of Canada, "You Broke Me First" peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, Ireland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. "You Broke Me First" peaked at number eight on the Canadian Hot 100. The song impacted mainstream US radio on August 4, 2020.
The song is the second most streamed song released by a female artist in 2020. It currently has over 1.3 billion streams across platforms, over 525 million combined streams on Pandora and over 970 million streams on Spotify, as of July 2022.
Propelled by its TikTok popularity, the song has been successful on streaming platforms. The song gained popularity on the video-sharing platform TikTok, where it has featured in over a million videos. It was released on April 17, 2020, through RCA Records as the lead single from her second extended play, Too Young to Be Sad (2021). It was sung by Tate McRae, featuring Tate McRae." You Broke Me First" (often stylized in all lowercase) is a song by Canadian singer Tate McRae. The You Broke Me First song lyrics is written by Tate McRae, Victoria Zaro, Blake Harnage in the year 2021. Swear for a while I would stare at my phone just to see your nameīut now that it's there, I don't really know what to say That you moved on quicker than I could've ever, you know that hurt Took awhile, was in denial when I first heard Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had When shit don't go your way you needed me to fix itĬould you tell me, where'd you get the nerve? Your phone's been off for a couple of months, so you're calling me now You're drunk at a party or maybe it's just that your car broke down Maybe you don't like talking too much about yourselfīut you shoulda told me that you were thinking 'bout someone else
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