The Emerging Artists is a music chart released weekly by Billboard magazine listing the most popular developing music artists. The chart uses the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Billboard Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top ten entries on Billboard's "Hot" song genre charts or "Top" album genre rankings.
Prior to the chart creation, Billboard had published several charts tracking emerging artists such as the Heatseekers, the Next Big Sound, and the Uncharted. Billboard launched the Emerging Artists chart in June 2014, in partnership with Twitter. It initially compiled the most-shared songs by up-and-coming artists, ranked by the volume of shares on Twitter in the United States over a seven-day period. The chart was revamped using the same formula as the Billboard Artist 100 chart in September 2017.
Billboard began highlighting the performances of new and developing music artists since 1991 with the creation of the Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts. A number of artists who charted on the Heatseekers chart have achieved mainstream success, such as Toby Keith who topped the Heatseekers Albums with his self-titled debut album in 1993 and topped the US main album chart of the Billboard 200 for the first time with his seven studio album Unleashed in 2002. [2] Billie Eilish topped the Heatseekers Albums with her debut EP Don't Smile at Me (2017) and topped the Billboard 200 with her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). [3]
In 2010, Billboard collaborated with Next Big Sound, a New York–based company which provides analytics for online music, to create the Next Big Sound 25 chart. [4] It listed the fastest-accelerating artists of the week, across all major social music sites, statistically predicted to achieve future success. The chart aimed to predict artists who were most likely to make their debut on the Billboard 200 chart within the next year, all based on a patented algorithm that looked at artists' growth on social media and streaming over the previous 90 days. [5] As Pandora acquired Next Big Sound on May 19, 2015, [4] the chart was also published on Pandora website as the "Pandora Predictions" chart. [6] The first number-one artist on the chart was Victorious on December 18, 2010, and the final number-one artist was Yebba on October 2, 2021. [7] [8] The chart became permanently defunct as Pandora shut down Next Big Sound platform on November 1, 2021. [9] [10]
Uncharted was a chart compiled by Billboard listing the top new and developing artists who have yet to appear on a major Billboard chart, regardless of country of origin. [11] [12] [13] Ranking is based on a formula incorporating streamed plays, page views and fans according to MySpace, as well as sources tracked by online aggregator Next Big Sound, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, iLike and Wikipedia, among others. In order to appear on Uncharted, acts must be registered MySpace Music artists and have not appeared on specifically outlined Billboard charts.
The first number-one artist on the chart was Traphik on January 29, 2011, and the final number-one artist was Kygo on June 7, 2014. [14] [15] The top-performing Uncharted artists of the year were Traphik (2011) and DJ Bl3nd (2012 and 2013). [16] DJ Bl3nd holds the record for the most weeks at number one on the Uncharted (62 weeks) and remained on the chart for a total of 103 weeks. [17]
The Emerging Artists was one of four Twitter charts launched by Billboard. [18] The chart listed the most-shared songs on Twitter in the United States by up-and-coming artists—determined by Twitter follower thresholds and Hot 100 charting history—ranked by the volume of shares over a seven-day period (Monday to Sunday). [19] Its first number one was K Camp's "Cut Her Off" on the issue dated June 7, 2014, and its final number-one before the chart revamp was Cheat Codes' "No Promises" on the issue dated August 26, 2017. [20]
Starting with Billboard charts dated September 2, 2017, a revamped Emerging Artists chart was modeled after the same formula as the Billboard Artist 100 chart which debuted in 2014 and captures the breakout artists not on that chart. It measures artist activity across Billboard's "most influential charts", including the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard 200 and the Social 50. And, unlike the original Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart, which ranked with song titles of the weekly most shared songs on Twitter by new artists, the new Emerging Artists chart ranks only by artist, without listing a song or album. [21]
The new chart "incorporates key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity". And the revised chart will "exclude artists that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top 10s on Billboard's "Hot" song genre charts that blend streaming, airplay and sales data (such as the Hot Country Songs, the Hot Rock Songs, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and the Hot Latin Songs) or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings (including counterpart charts the Top Country Albums, the Top Rock Albums, the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and the Top Latin Albums)". Portugal. The Man became the first number-one artist on the revamped Emerging Artists chart on the issue dated September 2, 2017. [21]
Total weeks at No. 1 | Artist | First week at No. 1 | Ref. |
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28 | Jelly Roll | August 20, 2022 | [22] |
24 | NLE Choppa | August 3, 2019 | [23] |
14 | Lauv | June 9, 2018 | [24] |
12 | City Girls | April 6 | [25] |
The following artists topped the Emerging Artists and eventually managed to score a mainstream success by topping the Billboard Artist 100 chart.
Artist | First week at No. 1 on the Emerging Artists | First week at No. 1 on the Artist 100 | Timespan | Ref. |
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Dua Lipa | September 23, 2017 | May 22, 2021 | 191 weeks | [26] [27] |
Lil Baby | May 26, 2018 | March 14, 2020 | 94 weeks | [28] [29] |
Blackpink | June 30, 2018 | October 17, 2020 | 120 weeks | [30] [31] |
Billie Eilish | August 4, 2018 | April 13, 2019 | 36 weeks | [32] [33] |
Tomorrow X Together | March 16, 2019 | February 11, 2023 | 204 weeks | [34] [35] |
ATEEZ | September 25, 2021 | November 30, 2024 | 166 weeks | [36] [37] |
Jelly Roll | August 20, 2022 | October 26, 2024 | 114 weeks | [38] [39] |
Zach Bryan | May 7, 2022 | September 9, 2023 | 70 weeks | [40] [41] |
Jimin | April 1, 2023 | April 8, 2023 | 1 week | [42] [43] |
Chappell Roan | May 18, 2024 | October 5, 2024 | 20 weeks | [44] [45] |
Artist | Emerging Artists peak date | Peak position | Grammy Best New Artist | Billboard Top New Artist | Ref. |
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Dua Lipa | September 23, 2017 | 1 | Won (2019) | Nominated (2019) | [46] |
Juice Wrld | May 26, 2018 | 3 | — | Won (2019) | [47] [48] |
Billie Eilish | August 4, 2018 | 1 | Won (2020) | Won (2020) | [49] |
Megan Thee Stallion | May 18, 2019 | 6 | Won (2021) | — | [50] [51] |
Pop Smoke | January 11, 2020 | 16 | — | Won (2021) | [52] [53] |
Olivia Rodrigo | January 18, 2020 | 11 | Won (2022) | Won (2022) | [49] [54] |
Zach Bryan | May 7, 2022 | 1 | — | Won (2023) | [49] |
Victoria Monét | February 17, 2024 | 1 | Won (2024) | — | [55] [56] |
Chappell Roan | May 18, 2024 | 1 | Pending | Won (2024) | [49] |
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