JADE has explained why she thinks “Angel of My Dreams” suited Kylie Jenner’s Victoria’s Secret runway appearance. More than two years after release, her debut solo single has reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, entering at No. 70. The singer also discussed the unexpected response, the pressures behind the song and work already under way on her second album.
JADE did not expect a routine song-licensing approval to introduce “Angel of My Dreams” to a new audience. After Kylie Jenner walked the Victoria’s Secret runway to the track, clips circulated across social media and helped bring the 2024 single into the US Billboard Hot 100. The singer is still absorbing a development that arrived just as she was beginning to move beyond the record’s original promotional period.
In a new interview published on November 3, she described a week of constant notifications and unexpected excitement. The song first came out in July 2024, but its latest wave of attention has created a different moment in its life. Her reaction mixes delight with the feeling of having a great deal to process, particularly as the resurgence is reaching people who did not know her music before.
“Angel of My Dreams” accompanied Jenner’s appearance in a Fantasy Bra reportedly valued at $50 million. JADE had approved the request from Victoria’s Secret without expecting it to transform the song’s trajectory. The company had previously used her track “Fantasy” in a show, so the request itself did not initially seem extraordinary. Only after the runway moment began spreading did the scale of the response become clear.
She did not watch the event live. Recalling the evening, she said she had probably had a quiet night and gone to bed early, then woke to a phone full of messages. Her label was excited about the reaction, and the team’s group chat filled with jokes and images from “The Office”. What began as a licensing decision had become the kind of exposure they had been hoping might come.
The Hot 100 entry at No. 70 gives JADE a new American milestone. “Angel of My Dreams” had already reached the UK Top 10 and received a Song of the Year nomination at the 2025 BRIT Awards, yet it had not previously entered the US chart. The new interest matters to her partly because it includes listeners encountering her for the first time, rather than simply returning fans revisiting a familiar single.
She also learned that the selection came from someone who had liked the track from the beginning. Victoria’s Secret creative lead Adam Selman contacted her and explained that he had loved it since release. For JADE, that made the experience more satisfying than a song choice based only on a convenient reference to angels. The placement brought together an existing appreciation of the recording and a moment that happened to travel widely online.
The singer sees another connection between the song and Jenner’s public life. “Angel of My Dreams” explores an artist’s difficult relationship with the music industry, the desire for approval and the pressure to remain successful. JADE imagines that a woman who has spent years under constant public scrutiny might recognise some of those feelings. She made clear that this is her interpretation and that she has not personally met Jenner.
The lyrics grew from her experiences in Little Mix and what she learned about the industry during those years. At the start of her solo career, she believed she could look at that world with more distance. She then found herself tying her self-esteem to chart results and other people’s reactions again. The song’s subject remained relevant to her own working life, even after she thought she had moved beyond those pressures.
That realisation required some uncomfortable self-examination. She acknowledged that she had not left behind as much as she imagined, and the single took on renewed meaning during her solo journey. The timing of its resurgence felt particularly striking because it arrived as she was beginning to release some of her anxiety about its performance. A song about seeking validation found another audience when she was starting to let that concern go.
Recognition has also come through her debut solo album, “That’s Showbiz, Baby!”, which was nominated for the 2026 Mercury Prize. JADE connected the honour with the work Little Mix put into pop at a time when the genre was often treated as less worthy of serious attention. The nomination carried significance beyond commercial results, recognising an album whose different sounds and subjects introduced her solo identity.
She is already making a second album, largely with Mike Sabath, who also worked on “Angel of My Dreams”. She described the next record as having a more focused central idea than the stylistic range of her debut. No title or release date has been announced. The recent breakthrough means there may be new listeners waiting for it, even if she does not yet know exactly how this unexpected change will shape what comes next.
