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Tate McRae: what Harry Styles taught me about fame

No wonder this 20-year-old Canadian is hailed as pop’s next big thing — she counts Olivia Rodrigo as a close friend and has songs written by Billie Eilish

Tate McRae is often compared to Britney Spears
Tate McRae is often compared to Britney Spears
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The Sunday Times

At just 20 years old, Tate McRae is already a member of the so-called Billions Club. No, not an exclusive sect for the ultra-rich, but a select band of music artists that includes Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Olivia Rodrigo, whose songs have more than a billion streams on Spotify.

And the Canadian pop singer knows all those fellow club members personally. Eilish and her brother, Finneas, have written music for her. Styles shares the same management and sent flowers after she performed on the American show Saturday Night Live. Rodrigo, who is also 20, is actually a pal. Their friendship started over Instagram messages and graduated into dinner parties and drives together. “We hype each other up and make sure we always root