EGOISM took a bit of a break, but have come back in the last six months with a series of releases that have immediately reconnected with playlisters and gained them some fast new followers.
# releases: 4 – In just six months, they’ve put out four new tracks, a strong pace that clearly has a plan, has had a lot of work go into it, and means business.
Playlists appeared on*: 14 – The tastemaker crowd is keen to back them too – their first lead-artist release since 2022 in July last year was immediately picked up by a broad spectrum of the best new music playlists in Australia, and both that and each release since have all made it onto New Music Friday AU & NZ. While it looks like the number of playlists they’re getting onto is trending down with each release, that’s deceptive – less playlists actually *updated* across the last quarter of 2024, and the October adds they collected actually made them the most-added artist across the board in that week.
Spotify followers**: +2.1k / +36% – With a two-year gap in new music, it doesn’t seem like their audience hesitated in jumping back in – increasing your Spotify followers by over a third in six months is a fast trajectory even at this stage in their growth, showing they can not only reconnect with old fans, but create connection with new ones too. Phase one of the return is going well, and certainly better than many artists achieve after a multi-year break. If the rest of their release schedule is as strong as it has been, then 2025 is looking pretty bright for them.
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* I don’t track every single playlist in the whole world because that would be bonkers. The 40 or so that I do track are specifically chosen because they focus on new music by Australian artists – this narrows down the set to a manageable size, showing who’s supporting an artist before any given track has already blown up. Basically, I think it’s a solid dataset to show which artists are getting critic support.
** I tend to use Spotify Followers as the key metric to watch, instead of Monthly Listeners or Popularity. Monthlies are great, but they can be messed up by an artist being a contributor or songwriter on another artist’s track, and (along with Popularity) can fluctuate pretty wildly. Followers implies a conscious choice of preference from a user, so for me is the strongest and steadiest signal of solid, ongoing audience support.
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