Midnight

## ***Midnight***Single by BJAYE

"**Midnight**" (stylized in lower case) is the second single and fifth track from BJAYE's sophomore studio album, *Dreamin*. It was released through Republic Records on March 24, 2028. The song has reached over 500 million views on Youtube and 1.5 billion streams on Spotify.

The song debuted at atop of the US *Billboard* Hot 100, being BJAYE' s fourth highest peak in the country for 2028, following “Dreamin”, “Dang Minds”, and “Thought U, Were”, as well as his fourth #1 there and also his third number one debut. It was his second song of the year to debut at number one. The song spent a total of 5 non-consecutive weeks at number one. It also reached #1 in Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United Kingdom.

A live version of the song is featured on *From Yours, To Whom (DWT Live)*, which was released on December 28, 2029.

## Background

BJAYE recorded the song on August 14, 2027 and finished it on August 17, 2027, this is the fourth song recorded for “Dreamin”.

On February 18, 2028, BJAYE posted a snippet with the text "see it at midnight".

The track was first teased in the "Dreamin" music video which displayed what appears to be the entire tracklist for BJAYE' s upcoming album at that time.

On a Instagram Live, BJAYE explains that "midnight has a deeper meaning, it’s about black empowerment, to show people who disagree with our race and tell them that we can do it as much as those people who doubted us.” But it also can talk about mostly about space and astronomy and it’s aesthetics.

On March 10, 2028, BJAYE announced and confirmed that Midnight will be the next single, and will be released on March 24, 2028.

He posted a snippet of the music video on March 23, 2028, with the caption " midnight 9pm PST ".

## Composition

"Midnight" is a midtempo song that runs for three minutes and 30 seconds. It was characterized as a pop-hip hop hybrid track that blends "trip hoppy-R&B" and soft rock with influences of reggae over "hypnotic" trap-pop production. *Time* described the song as "a immediant banger", and noted that "BJAYE's voice is layered so that it sounds like a choir, but really, it's only him, multiplied." The song contains assertive lyrics embracing his nationality and intertwining themes of sexuality and mindset.

The song is performed in the key of E♭ minor with a tempo of 145 beats per minute in common time. The song follows a chord progression of E♭m – D♭/E♭ – E♭m – D♭/E♭ – C♭maj7 – D♭/C♭ –A♭m7 – B♭m7, and BJAYE's vocals span from E♭3 to E♭6.

## Commercial performance

"Midnight" was officially serviced to contemporary hit and rhythmic radio on March 24, 2028. It debuted No. 1 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 on April 8, 2028 It sold 245,000 digital downloads during its opening week, allowing it to enter the Digital Songs chart at number one while entering the Streaming Songs chart at number 1 with 35.1 million US streams, where it stayed at No. 1 in its second week on the chart. The song debuted at No. one on the Canadian Hot 100.

The song projected over 17.7m streams in it’s first day, becoming his second first day streams at the time and then projected 99m streams in its first week, then it surpassed 100 millions streams in (8 days).

In the United Kingdom, "Midnight" entered the Official Trending Chart at number one following its release, with the song set to debut at one on the chart regardless of any added points. On March 31, 2028, the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, where it became his second No 1 single in the country. It also debuted on the UK R&B chart at number one, becoming his highest-charting entry there. Similarly, it entered the Irish Singles Chart at number two , and at number six in Scotland. In Australia, the song has debuted on the ARIA Charts at number one, marking his second No 1 entry there as well.

The song also reached #1 on the US Pop Radio chart.

## Trivia

* This is one of BJAYE's favorite songs from *Dreamin*.
* BJAYE wrote the song within a day.
* Ariana Grande loves the song.
* The song was originally intended to be given to a male rapper, then female but when BJAYE was approached for this, he wanted the song for himself.
* The song is featured on French video game company Ubisoft's dance game, *Just Dance 2029,* along with "Dreamin".
* Midnight surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
* BJAYE has a fragrance of the same name
* The track surpassed 1.5 billion streams on Spotify and it's BJAYE’s 9th song to reach this milestone.
* BJAYE named a collection from his make up line as "midnight galaxy", a lyric from the track.
* In an Q&A video from Dreamin Beauty, BJAYE confirmed this is one of his favorite songs from Dreamin.
* An instrumental to this song is on the Japanese edition of the album

## Live performances

BJAYE first performed the song on his promotional tour called "Dreamin Sessions" among other songs from "*Dreamin*". BJAYE performed the song live at The 2028 MTV VMA Awards on August 27, 2028. He also performed the song at BJAYE at the BBC on October 2, 2028. The song was performed on Saturday Night Live on November 18, 2028. The song was the opener each night during the Dreamin World Tour on March 16, 2029.