That same year, she co-wrote and was featured on the Kream song "Taped Up Heart", which would go on to peak at number 21 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 70 on the Swedish chart. She also performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 as a backing vocalist for Gabriela Gunčíková, who represented the Czech Republic that year with "I Stand". Mae signed to Big Beat Records (an imprint of Atlantic Records) in 2017. She released her first major label single, "I'm Not Her", in November of that year. She released an acoustic version of the song in January 2018. Clara Mae was a featured artist on the Felix Jaehn song "Better", which was released in February 2018. Her second single on Big Beat, "I Forgot", was released in March 2018.
