From Waiting Tables to the Hot 100: Alyssa Grace Releases 'washing skin'

Alyssa Grace was waiting tables when 'bloodstream' reached the Billboard Hot 100. Now the 19-year-old has released 'washing skin', a song about facing past traumas.

'washing skin' is out now through Artist House. Warner calls it one of the most vulnerable songs she has shared, with Alyssa taking her truth back. Her voice stacks into what Warner calls an angelic choir before the song builds into racing guitar and thundering drums. "You never had the right to blame me, I was young, mad, and 17," she sings.

The artwork for 'washing skin'.

“For the longest time this wasn’t something I was ready to share,” Alyssa wrote when she revealed the song. “But when I wrote it, I knew it was something I had to put out into the world.”

Billboard's Chartbreaker profile follows the Torrance, California artist from the Cheesecake Factory to the Hot 100, where 'bloodstream' reached No. 45. Warner says that song reached RIAA Gold status in less than three months and has lifted her to 450 million streams worldwide. It is also certified Gold by ARIA and RMNZ in Australia and New Zealand.

She has been on the road since. Alex Warren made her special guest on every Australian and New Zealand date of his Finding Family On The Road tour. Warner says her first full show was in front of 10,000 people in New Zealand in August. Brisbane heard her at Brisbane Entertainment Centre in early September. In Perth she sang Warren's song 'Eternity' with him on stage. Her own wanna be singer tour now runs through North America into December, and she has been announced for Noah Kahan's Out of the Blue Festival in Cancún in January 2027. Warner's release lists no Australian dates of her own.

'washing skin' follows her debut EP spilling my guts, which includes 'bloodstream' and the orchestral live video 'bones'. She also put out 'bloodstream (mother's version)', a second take prompted by fans who swap their mothers into the lyric "I am my father's daughter". Her song 'getting over u' was made for the soundtrack of Netflix's Nobody Wants This.

Her first songs came quickly. Her February debut, 'dog with a bone', reached Spotify's Viral 50 in several countries. The follow-up, 'picking petals', made the UK Official Singles Chart. Warner says her music has more than 11 million TikTok posts and 7 billion views there, and more than 11 million monthly Spotify listeners.

'washing skin'

• Artist: Alyssa Grace
• Label: Artist House
• Out: now
• Latest EP: spilling my guts
• Listen: found.ee/washingskin