The Underground Stage
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that the artists added to these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and […]
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that the artists added to these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and […]
Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists to see which artists are getting the most support from critics and tastemakers. this week # Unique Tracks Added 793 + 14% # Unique Artists Added 698 + 11% vs last week # Playlists Updated 24 -1 appeared on 33% of updated playlists Ocean […]
Most Playlisted This Week Darcie Haven pipped a lot of more established players to bag the top spot this week, gaining more spots on the best Australian new music playlists than any other artist. 🥇Darcie Haven (appeared on 35% of updated playlists) 🥈Beddy Rays (30%) 🥉 Ocean Alley, ONEFOUR, Mallrat, Hazlett, DICE, Jade Imagine, Merpire […]
Sometimes – just sometimes – the universe operates smoothly and correctly, and this week was one of those times, with Bad//Dreems absolutely brilliant new track ‘Jack’ running the table on the best Australian new music playlists. 🥇Bad//Dreems 🥈Babe Rainbow 🥉Kinder, Ocean Alley, Press Club, Royel Otis What’s of note here too is more precisely who […]
In a four-way tie, Big Scary, Boy & Bear, Yb. And Ocean Alley shared joint top honours this week for the most adds to the best new music playlists in Australia. Boy & Bear’s return with “Just To Be Kind”, and tracks from Big Scary’s Me and You album were both fresh out this week, […]
Arno Faraji’s “Black Sunday” banger topped the list this week, the most added track and artist across the best new music playlists in Australia. That track snuck in even ahead of the mighty Ocean Alley, who got the sort of support you’d expect for “Home”, and also just ahead of These New South Whales, whose […]