Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week:
🏆 The Champ: Lana Del Ray
Appearing on all nine of the biggest New Music Friday lists globally, Lana Del Ray’s “The Grants” topped the pile this week, the largest act by followers to do so.
🚀 The Challenger: Regard
Regard also made it onto the big nine with “No Sleep“, doing so with the smallest current level of Spotify followers (200k).
🥊 Punching Above: Kamal
Kamal. did particularly well with “white wine” this week, making it onto eight of the nine largest NMF markets, except Australia. To do so with less than 100k followers is a strong signal of wide support for this UK artist.
🧛♂️ New Blood: Ni’jah
The power of the Amazon Prime series Swarm (plus the addition of Childish Gambino and KIRBY on this track) gave a completely fictional artist a spot on five of the big nine with “Sticky“
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📸 Kamal, no photo credit found