Jessie Reyez is in the middle of her first headline arena tour, with a hometown finale at Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto on November 24. This Jessie Reyez essential tracks pass is a catalogue piece, not a news story: the five records that explain how a Brampton-raised songwriter became one of Canada’s most decorated voices.
The week around her is busy enough. Her deluxe album A Little More Vengeance arrived November 6, and BMG’s SOCAN Awards report confirms she received the International Achievement Award at the 2026 SOCAN Awards in Toronto, an honour for Canadian songwriters representing the country on the global stage. The essential tracks below are the road between those two facts.
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Jessie Reyez essential tracks: Figures, where it started
“Figures” is the breakthrough, the diaristic ballad that turned Reyez from a feature credit into a headline name. iimiTV has already given the song its own close read in its Jessie Reyez Figures lyrics piece. Heard today, it is still the template: conversational writing, a voice that cracks in the right places, and a chorus built to be sung back at her. The arena tour she is on now starts, in every meaningful sense, with this song.
The songwriter: One Kiss and the pen behind other voices
Reyez’s second essential credit is a song she does not sing. She co-wrote “One Kiss” for Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa, one of the biggest pop records of its era, proof that the same pen behind “Figures” could write a global dance-pop hit on assignment. For a Toronto-area artist, that credit changed the industry’s math: she was no longer only a performer to book, but a writer other stars called.
The guest voice: Eminem, JID and the feature run
The third strand is the feature run. As iimiTV’s deluxe album coverage noted, Reyez built her name partly on diaristic songwriting and features with Eminem and JID, two of rap’s most technical writers, both of whom used her voice as the emotional centre of their records. Add the formal honours, a Grammy nomination and six Juno Awards, and the feature years read as a long apprenticeship served at the highest level available.
The current album core: 99%, N.Y.F.F. and Ain’t U Tired
Her fourth studio album, A Little Vengeance, arrived June 12, 2026, her birthday, the same day she performed in Toronto at the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony alongside Elyanna. Its core tracks are the current live show’s spine: “99%” and “N.Y.F.F.” for the bite, and “AIN’T U TIRED,” her collaboration with Muni Long, for the ache. These are the songs the November crowds are hearing nightly, from the tour opener in Seattle on November 3 through Oakland, Los Angeles and Brooklyn.
The deluxe run: Softer and the four Friday singles
The newest layer of the catalogue was built in public, one song a week. “FOR SIXXX IN THE MORNIN,” featuring Samara Cyn, arrived October 9, then “MADE 4 THIS” on October 16, “SOVEREIGN LAND” on October 23 and “SOFTER” on October 30. The deluxe edition gathered them with four more, including “GO 2 WAR” and “I JUST WANT TO PET MY DOG,” taking the album to 25 tracks, as detailed in iimiTV’s A Little More Vengeance deluxe album post.
Five entry points, one arc: a breakthrough ballad, a global pop co-write, a feature run beside rap’s technicians, a fourth album’s core, and a deluxe rollout built week by week. On November 24 at Coca-Cola Coliseum, Toronto gets to hear all of it in one room, in the city the catalogue was written about.
