Ali Gatie released his new song Is Your Heart Still In It on October 23, 2026, through his LISN label, continuing a run of weekly singles that has now stretched across nine straight weeks. The single runs 2 minutes and 29 seconds and arrives with an official lyric video.
Gatie is the Iraqi Canadian singer and rapper raised in Mississauga, part of the wave of toronto rappers and singers who built global audiences from the suburbs around the city rather than from downtown. His catalogue already carries the proof of scale: more than 3.6 billion global streams, according to Ticketmaster’s artist biography, near a billion YouTube views, and collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign, Alessia Cara, Tate McRae, Marshmello and MAX. A nine week singles run from an artist with those numbers is not filler. It is a deliberate release strategy, and this week’s entry is a good place to examine how it works.
Ali Gatie New Song: Is Your Heart Still In It
The new single is written and composed by Gatie himself, per the release credits listed on Deezer, where the LISN release is dated October 23, 2026. At 2 minutes and 29 seconds it follows the compact shape of the whole run: short, direct, built around one emotional question stated in the title and answered across the verses. The official lyric video keeps the focus on the words, which suits an artist whose biggest records, songs like It’s You and What If I Told You That I Love You, travelled on the strength of lines listeners could carry with them.
The lyric video format is doing specific work in this run. A full production video every week for nine weeks would be unsustainable and, for this catalogue, unnecessary. Gatie’s audience relationship is built on intimacy and quotable writing. A clean lyric visual keeps the weekly cadence, holds the YouTube presence his numbers show is central to his reach, and lets each Friday’s song be judged on the writing alone. It is a video desk story precisely because the restraint is the strategy.
Nine Fridays in a Row
The run’s shape is visible in the release dates. Deja Vu opened the sequence on August 7, followed by Lost My Self In You on August 28 after a short gap, then the weekly rhythm locked in: Lonely on September 4, Homesick on September 11, Make It Through on September 18, Option on September 25, I Hope You’re Happy on October 2, Wherever We Go on October 9, Crazy In Love on October 16, and now Is Your Heart Still In It on October 23. Most of the songs credit Gatie as sole writer, with J Grooves sharing composer credit on several, and nearly all of them land between two and a half and three minutes.
Read together, the titles sketch an emotional arc: loneliness, homesickness, endurance, hope, and finally a direct question to a partner about whether the feeling is still there. Whether the sequence is a planned album rollout or a standalone singles diary has not been announced, and it would be wrong to present either as fact. What is factual is the cadence itself, and cadence is a career skill. In a release economy built on weekly attention, a Toronto area artist has held a Friday slot for two months with self written material on his own label.
Why the Run Matters for the Toronto Scene
Gatie’s career has always been an argument for the Greater Toronto Area’s depth. The headline Toronto stories usually belong to a handful of superstar names, but the city’s wider music economy runs on artists like this: Mississauga raised, globally streamed, independent in structure through LISN, and fluent in the pop and R and B blend that travels across borders. His collaboration list underlines the point, connecting him to Canadian peers like Alessia Cara and Tate McRae as naturally as to American hitmakers.
There is also a catalogue lesson in the run for younger artists watching. Nine singles in nine weeks only works if the writing pace is real, and Gatie’s credits show one writer, sometimes two, on every record. No feature chasing, no remix inflation, no gaps filled with other people’s songs. The question the newest single asks, whether your heart is still in it, lands differently at the end of a two month weekly run. On the evidence of the release calendar, his clearly is. Listeners in Toronto and far beyond it have a new Ali Gatie song to test that against this week, and if the pattern holds, another one next Friday.
