Sound Of 2023: Cat Burns went from the streets to a platinum record

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By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent

From playing the streets of London to becoming pl Cat Burns has had a pretty amazing 2022.

All thanks to Go, a provocative breakup song she first released three years ago, but which found a second life on TikTok,

A slow-burning smash, it entered the charts at number 57 last January, gradually moving towards the top until it reached number two in June.

By then Sam Smith had added a guest verse to the song and taken 22-year-old Burns to the United States to perform the song on James Corden. The Late Late Show.

She ended the year with a nomination for the Brits Critics' Choice award; and now she's come fourth in BBC Radio 1's Sound Of 2023 - which prognosticates acts for even bigger success next year.

"I I always thought that Go would be the song introduced me to people, but not in the magnitude that it has”, says the singer, who still accepts success.

This time last year, the track "had reached one or two million streams and I was happy with it," she says.

"I thought it had had its day, but this year has been absolutely crazy...and I'm so grateful for that."