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European Border Breakers Chart 16 November 2018
Let’s talk about a real European Border Breakers Chart success story: this week, Belgian singer Angèle (pictured) lands all 12 tracks off her debut album Brol in the Top 16 of the Streaming Chart. This is an even better score than 5 weeks ago. Then, just after her album’s release, all 12 tracks appeared in the chart’s Top 18. Looks like Belgium produced a new pop star!
I’m sure Angèle would have received a European Border Breakers Award for this feat, but alas that prize is no more. Therefore, for the record: Angèle is by far Belgium’s most successful emerging artist of the last year, and even on a European scale, the impressive performance of all of her album’s tracks is unprecedented.
Looking at the other 88 positions in the overall Top 100, which incorporates airplay and streaming, we find 24 (re)entries. Exactly half of those tracks have never been in the chart before:
#27: Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved
#46: Between Mountains – Into The Dark
#56: Drenchill feat. Indiiana – Freed From Desire
#61: Komodo – Bengali Crown
#63: Kamferdrops – Svake Mennesker
#70: Unknown T – Homerton B
#72: Famke Louise – Op Me Monnie
#82: Gyda – Moonchild
#84: ViVii – Suckerpunch
#89: Suzi Wu – Grim Reaper
#94: Altın Gün – Cemalim
#100: Prospa – Prayer
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 9 November 2018
Do you rather look at the future than the past?
Are you interested in new European music, or even new European artists?
Are you curious which emerging artists manage to be successful outside their home country?
Would you like to hear all the future hits in one place?
Look no further: the answer to all of these questions can be found in the European Border Breakers Chart. Every Friday around noon a fresh chart lists the 100 most popular songs, based on the conditions above.
This week, the Top 100 counts 28 (re)entries, exactly half of which are total newcomers. Among those 14 are songs by Kara Marni (pictured) and Hrvy, that I recommended here before, and a further 12 tracks that are about to develop into tomorrow’s hits. This is the complete list:
#8: NOTD feat. Felix Jaehn, Georgia Ku & Captain Cuts – So Close
#23: Armoo feat. 6ix9ine – Bozoo
#28: Dodie – If I’m Being Honest
#32: Hrvy – I Wish You Were Here
#33: BRYN – Bailiffs
#58: Clara Luciani – La Baie
#62: Zilla With Her Eyes Shut – Cut Me Boy
#63: B.E.D. – White Coats
#64: Nylenda – Fires Light
#72: Everyone You Know – Our Generation
#81: Invisible Minds – Yo Mae Leh
#84: Kara Marni – Move
#90: Pip Blom – Hours
#100: Victor Leksell – Tappat
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 2 November 2018
The fun part of the European Border Breakers Chart is that it is totally unlike any other chart around. Not only because it only features emerging European artists who are successful outside their home country, but also because that starting point gives visibility to a whole new generation of pop stars, before their break-through. In other words: the EBBChart is all about discovery, and if you follow it, you’ll be the first to know!
Personally, I’m thrilled to see the marvellous Uh Huh by Jade Bird (pictured) being picked up in Scandinavia, Iceland and Estonia, causing it to jump straight into the Top 3 of this week’s Top 100. Although Silk City feat. Dua Lipa still reign supreme, Jade Bird could cause a stir at the top of the EBBChart, if only she’d get some more support from radio stations and streamers in the rest of Europe.
Elsewhere, the Top 100 counts 23 (re)entries, 10 of which are completely new to the list. Two artists even have two debuting tracks each: Dutch rapper Willem (formerly half of hip hop duo The Opposites) and British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason (who already scored three EBBChart hits before these two). All ten newcomers are below:
#43: B.E.D. – Walk Away
#48: Willem – Man In Nood
#54: Eut – Look (Who Has Decided After All)
#69: Loski – Cool Kid
#84: Au/Ra – Ultraviolet
#86: L Devine – Nervous
#92: Sheku Kanneh-Mason – Evening Of Roses
#94: J. Bernardt – The Other Man
#95: Sheku Kanneh-Mason – Hallelujah
#98: Willem – Houten Pak
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Your favourites (October 2018)
Great to see the width of your musical tastes, based on the Carte Blanche Music posts you viewed most in October. Virtually every genre pops up in your Top 10. This blog doesn’t discriminate by genre, so I’m happy to see we’re on the same page.
Looking more closely to your favourites, a few things are striking: a song that I recommended in July already (La Vague by DRMS & L’Isle), suddenly appeared among the most-read blogs last month, and continued the shine at #2 in October. It’s Alright by Nona, from that same month, was a fixture among your favourites in the last months, and still stands proudly at #8. On the other hand, two songs I only published this week (O by Arthur Adam and this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, Then It Comes To Me by The Proclaimers) amassed enough eyeballs in this short time frame to appear at #3 and #7 respectively.
All of your ten favourites, which you can also find in my constantly updated 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music, are below:
- Sophie & The Giants – Bulldog
- DRMS & L’Isle – La Vague
- Arthur Adam – O
- Harts – Shake Ya Pants (WC)
- Satellite Stories – The Fame
- The Knocks (feat. Sofi Tukker) – Brazilian Soul
- The Proclaimers – Then It Comes To Me (WC)
- Nona – It’s Alright
- Cookin’ On 3 Burners feat. Kaiit – Warning (WC)
- Anteros – Ordinary Girl
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 26 October 2018
I love it when a plan comes together… Earlier this month, I raved about Sophie & The Giants’s single Bulldog and this week, it enters the European Border Breakers Chart. At #31, they’re the highest debuting artists in the Top 100 (behind Sam Fender at #19, but he had multiple EBBChart hits before). Congratulations to singer Sophie Scott (who’s soaring voice lies somewhere between Florence Welch and Alice Merton), guitarist Toby Holmes, bass player Bailey Stapledon and drummer Chris Hill!
Bulldog by Sophie & The Giants (pictured) is one out of seven tracks that enter the Top 100 this week (on a total of 23 (re)entries). These are all seven of them:
#19: Sam Fender – That Sound
#31: Sophie & The Giants – Bulldog
#42: Broadstrokes – Underwater
#44: Jimothy Lacoste – Fashion
#86: Youngr – Monsters
#96: Pom Poko – My Blood
#99: Altin Gün – Seker Oglan
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 19 October 2018
Last week’s European Border Breakers Chart was nothing less than spectacular. What happened then, was really special and unique. Does that mean that the new, just published Top 100 is a dull one? Hell no!
Looking back to last week one more time, how does record-breaking Belgian singer-songwriter Angèle fare in this edition of the EBBChart? Very well; even better than last week. 9 out of her 12 album tracks in the combined Top 100 (airplay + streaming) are on their way up. Even more than on the radio, Angèle appears to be a streaming phenomenon. All of the 12 tracks off her debut album Brol are in the Top 17 of the Streaming Chart, with half of them populating its Top 10.
This week, 24 tracks leave the chart to make way for the same number of (re)entries. One of the exiting songs is last week’s #3: Leave A Light On by Tom Walker. Not because it suddenly wasn’t played on the radio or hasn’t been streamed anymore (on the contrary), but because it had been in the Top 100 for 52 weeks. After such a chart run, tracks are automatically removed from the EBBChart, to give other emerging artists a chance to become visible.
Among the 24 newcomers, 9 tracks enter the Top 100 for the first time:
#63: Samra – Roadrunner
#64: Dima feat. Teddy Sky – Cruel
#68: Declan J Donovan – Pieces
#71: Halo Maud – Tu Sais Comme Je Suis
#75: Touts – Can’t Blame Me
#76: Superorganism – The Prawn Song
#84: Dodie feat. Tom Walker – Human
#86: Nicklas Sahl – New Eyes
#96: Gently Tender – 2 Chords Good
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 12 October 2018
Ed Sheeran, Drake, and Kanye West (excuse me, Ye) are just some names of artists who managed to have many album tracks in the charts simultaneously, immediately after they released a long player. All of them British or American artists, who built a large worldwide fan base over a career that included multiple albums. European artists have so far a harder time to achieve such a feat, let alone emerging European artists who, according to the chart rules of the European Border Breakers Chart, are only eligible with tracks that are less than two years old, but only if they haven’t released more than one album. Okay, artists like Superorganism and Goat Girl have seen many tracks off their first albums reach the EBBChart over the course of a few months, but not all of them together in the week following the album release.
This week, we greet the exception to the rule: Belgian singer-songwriter Angèle (pictured) dominates the Top 100. Not with many of the tracks off her last week released debut album Brol, but all of its songs are included! And all of them within the Top 65 of the combined EBBChart, which is compiled from airplay and streaming data. The fact that the tracks are in both the separate Airplay Chart and Streaming Chart as well, proves that her music is liked by radio stations and streaming music lovers alike, especially in Belgium (obviously), France, Switzerland and Poland.
Yesterday, when I reviewed her new single Tout Oublier (feat. Roméo Elvis), I wrote ‘Angèle Van Laeken is one of the most successful young artists to have come out of Belgium the past year.’ Today, I must correct that. Angèle is the most successful young artists to have come out of Belgium the past year. And rightfully so, for Brol is a great album, full of radio friendly pop tracks with a twist.
You can find all of this week’s 15 newcomers below:
#4: Sigrid: Sucker Punch
#31: Angèle feat. Roméo Elvis – Tout Oublier
#44: Angèle – Balance Ton Quoi
#47: Alma – Cowboy
#52: Angèle – Ta Reine
#53: Angèle – Nombreux
#56: Angèle – Les Matins
#57: Angèle – Flemme
#60: Angèle – Victime Des Réseaux
#62: Angèle – Flou
#84: Yoana – Da Ne Spim
#89: Fóe – Bouquet De Pleurs
#92: Rimon – Realize
#94: Otha – One Of The Girls
#96: Nana Adjoa – Down At The Root
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 5 October 2018
The European Border Breakers Chart is the only chart that highlights cross-border success of emerging European artists. The best way to spot upcoming acts in the early stages of their careers. What’s not to like about that for a music lover, radio station or (online) magazine?
This week’s Top 100 counts 19 (re)entries, 6 of which make their first appearance in our spotlights. Most eye-catching is Grace Carter’s highest entry, of course, but the trivia are further down the chart. How about Rulli Rulli Rulli by Öed? That’s only the second Estonian act ever to make the EBBChart, thanks to airplay in Poland. And British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason scores his third hit, this time with Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: Nocturne. A classical hit in a pop dominated Top 100. French radio plays it, as they did with his first two entries.
All six newbies can be found below:
#15: Grace Carter – Why Her Not Me
#51: Oscar Jerome – Do You Really
#59: Another Sky – Chillers
#74: Öed – Rulli Rulli Rulli
#89: Viito – Bella Come Roma
#95: Sheku Kanneh-Mason – The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: Nocturne
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Your favourites (September 2018)
I presume you had some catching up to do, since five of your ten favourite Carte Blanche Music posts in September were recommendations I posted throughout the summer. Blame it on the holidays… 😉
Quite extraordinarily, my blog about It’s Alright by Nona once again ends at #1, just like it did in August, while it was the second most-liked recommendation here in July already. Summer hits don’t come any more obviously.
Sir Notch, Barns Courtney, and Danko return in this month’s round-up as well, while DRMS & L’Isle, a July release, makes a surprise appearance. The other five are more recent.
These were your ten favourites in September, all of which you can find in my constantly updated 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music:
- Nona – It’s Alright
- DRMS & L’Isle – La Vague
- Gecko Turner – Cortando Bajito
- Sir Notch – Gimme That Sunshine
- Sun Gods – Subtle Science
- Barns Courtney – “99” / Good Thing
- High Contrast – God Only Knows
- Danko – Hit Me Up
- Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises – Humanoid (WC)
- Minyeshu – Aynocheh (Your Eyes)
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
European Border Breakers Chart 28 September 2018
The European Border Breakers Chart is your weekly overview of emerging European artists scoring their first hits outside their home countries. In other words: the EBBChart spots acts early in their career, highlighting tomorrow’s potential superstars. Every Friday around noon a new chart is published, making for a great musical journey to the future.
This week’s Top 100 has an unprecedented 30 (re)entries. 13 of those tracks are charting for the first time. These are the artists to keep a keen eye out for:
#26: Lewis Capaldi – Grace
#31: Tom Gregory – Honest
#34: Angèle (pictured) – Jalousie
#39: El Profesor feat. Laura White – Ce Soir?
#47: Tom Grennan – Run In The Rain
#51: Soolking – Dalida
#59: Au/Ra – Emoji
#67: Pip Blom – Come Home
#73: Audiobooks – Dance Your Life Away
#84: Claire Laffut – Mojo
#89: Elax – Reaktor
#91: Kops – Salvation
#95: Deep Throat Choir – Be OK
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
