Chartbreaker: How ‘Bloodstream’ & TikTok Took Alyssa Grace From Cheesecake Factory to the Hot 100

Three months ago, Alyssa Grace was still working as a server at the Cheesecake Factory when her breakout song “Bloodstream” hit the Billboard Hot 100 .

While her co-workers “were all freaking out,” the moment was a wake-up call for the rising singer-songwriter.

“I was getting a little overwhelmed,” she recalls of juggling her day job with her burgeoning music career.

“So I was like, ‘Let’s focus on this one thing.’ ” Soon after, she gave her two weeks’ notice.

Such tunnel vision showed immediate results.

Since entering the chart this June at No.

93, the aching and acoustic “Bloodstream” has reached a No.

45 high.

The single — only the third of her career, all of which arrived this year — features on Grace’s July debut EP Spilling My Guts that includes the previously released “Dog With a Bone” and “Picking Petals.” Grace is now playing the first shows of her career to massive crowds, opening on tour for Alex Warren across Australia and New Zealand (his wife, Kouvr, was an early fan).

Grace’s first headlining tour — a 14-date stint including shows in New York, Los Angeles and London at 500-capacity venues — kicks off Sept.

21.

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1 With Ryan Castro Collab Calvin Harris Sets First-Ever Headline Tour of Australia Born Alyssa Grace Proffitt in Torrance, Calif., the 19-year-old artist was raised on Taylor Swift (whom she would listen to on the radio with her mom) and Sublime (whom her dad would play instead).

“I got a little bit of everything growing up,” says Grace over Zoom on a Friday morning, having just woken up after one of Warren’s shows the night before.