Dreamin

## ***Dreamin***Single by BJAYE

This article is about title track. For its album, see Dreamin (album).
"**Dreamin**" (stylized in all lowercase) is the lead single and ninth track from BJAYE's second studio album. as of the same name. It was released through Republic Records on January 7, 2028 and has over 2 billion views on Youtube and 2 billion streams on Spotify.

The song debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it his third number one song and second number one debut to chart. It was his highest peak at the time in 2028, until Dang Minds & Thought U, Were It also charted number one on UK Singles Chart. as well as reaching number one on iTunes in 45 countries, including in the United States.

A live version of the song is feature on From Yours, To Whom (DWT Live), which was released on December 28, 2029. It was also performed on Jimmy Fallon's show.

## Background

On December 21, 2027 it was reported that BJAYE was set to release the lead single from his second upcoming album sometime early next year. On January 1, 2028, BJAYE announced that the lead single was titled "dreamin" and would be released on January 7, 2028. On January 4, 2028, BJAYE revealed the single cover. He also posted a 30-second snippet of the song. BJAYE hosted a listening party in New York earlier in the week. He explained that they been working on this song and believe that it would be a huge commercial success when released.

It impacted hot adult contemporary radio on January 10, and contemporary hit and contemporary rhythmic radio on January 11.

He said the meaning of the song is “besides the song matching the same meaning of the album it’s basically talks about having a positive outlook towards others and want others to believe that they have opportunities too just keep dreamin about the them.”

## Live Performances

BJAYE performed the song for the first time on January 7, 2028, on a live version performed at Village Studios, the video has over 18m views as over October 1, 2028. BJAYE gave his first televised performance of the song on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon*. On February 5, BJAYE performed it for the second time on television along with “Better Than”. Later, on May 21, 2028, BJAYE opened the 2028 *Billboard* Music Awards with a performance of "Dreamin".

He also performed it on the one-hour special, *BJAYE at the BBC*, recorded on September 19, 2028 and aired on October 2.

The song was a regular part of the setlist to BJAYE's Dreamin World Tour, which began on March 16, 2029.

## Commercial performance

On January 8, 2028, it was reported that BJAYE broke his person record of most streamed song in a single day (19.0m streams), On January 13, which is it’s sixth day “Dreamin" became the fastest song to cross 100 million plays on Spotify globally, breaking the record previously held by Miley Cyrus' “Flowers" in its seventh day. Between January 7–14, 2028, which were its first full seven days, "Dreamin" earned 124,032,624 plays in Spotify, becoming the biggest week for a song in the platform's history (previously the record was held by Miley Cyrus's "Flowers" with over 115 million streams).

On the week ending, January 22, 2028, Dreamin debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, spending over 9-10 consecutive weeks at number one, with 75.5m streams, 61.4m radio airplay, and 435,000 units. This became BJAYE’s third number one and second number one debut, becoming the first song of 2028 to debut at number one.

The single also launched atop the Billboard Global 200 chart, Streaming Songs chart, debuted at number one on the Digital Song Sales chart and debuted at No. one on Radio Songs chart. It also debuted at number one on the R&B chart

In the United Kingdom "Dreamin" debuted atop the UK Singles Chart with 192,000 chart units, partially due to 11.9 million streams. It became BJAYE's first UK number one and first number one debut. In Australia "Dreamin" debuted atop the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming BJAYE's first number-one single.