Every Friday around noon, we publish a fresh European Border Breakers Chart. Or… multiple charts, to be exact. The main Top 100 indicates cross-border success by emerging European artists and combines airplay and streaming data. But if you wish, you can also check each data stream separately, by viewing the Airplay Chart or the Streaming Chart. It’s fascinating to see the differences.

To give you one example: one of my favourite entries in this week’s chart, former Carte Blanche Music Wildcard King Of The Jungle by Shanguy (pictured), is – shamefully! – not played enough on the radio to reach the Airplay Top 100. However, Polish people love it so much, that the track is at #11 the Streaming Chart. This gives the song enough leverage for it to appear in the combined Top 100. Meanwhile, their debut single La Louze is still #15 at Streaming.

All 10 fresh tracks among this week’s 22 (re)entries are listed below:
#30: Sam Fender – Dead Boys
#74: Lukas Leon – XTC
#87: Yazmin Lacey – Still
#89: Bad Sounds – Couldn’t Give It Away
#90: Emily Burns – Test Drive
#94: Yazmin Lacey – Sun Is Ours
#95: Saint Lanvain – If Jesus Loves Me
#96: Shanguy – King Of The Jungle
#99: Alligator – Shadow By Your Side
#100: Miami Yacine – Kokaina

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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One of the most promising European bands around, Pale Waves (singer Heather Baron-Gracie pictured), are currently with three tracks in the European Border Breakers Chart. This week, they score their first Top 10 hit, as Eighteen rockets from #21 to #9. Outside the Top 10, artists like Ten Tonnes, Yungblud, Boy Azooga and Goat Girl (all with multiple simultaneous hits) spice up the chart with their guitars. Further proof that rock ‘n’ roll isn’t dead (are you listening, Lenny Kravitz?).

This edition of the EBBChart counts 24 (re)entries, mostly songs that have visited the Top 100 before. Four of them, though, are completely new to our weekly showcase of fresh European talent. They are:
#37: Feng Suave – Honey, There’s No Time
#40: Brother Leo – Strangers On An Island
#62: Kolabeech feat. Betsy – Everybody’s Free
#89: Ruthven – Hypothalamus

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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The European Border Breakers Chart isn’t your average chart. Not only does it exclusively contain emerging European artists with their first successes outside their own countries, but it’s also quicker than any other chart. I’m not the bragging kind, and this week’s Top 100 once again proves my point: almost one third of the chart is fresh compared to last week, and nearly half of the 32 entries have never been in the list before.

You’ll find these 15 first-timers below, with the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard of this week, Uh Huh by Jade Bird (pictured), proudly leading the pack:
#35: Jade Bird – Uh Huh
#43: Silk City feat. Desiigner & Goldlink – Loud
#44: Sean OB – Trouble
#51: Ten Tonnes – G.I.V.E.
#56: Josh. – Cordula Grün
#71: Big Pineapple – Another Chance
#72: Jimothy Lacoste – I Can Speak Spanish
#76: Flowliner feat. Kevin D & Stavroz Martina – Doo Wop
#78: Superorganism – Congratulations
#83: Charlotte Adigéry – 1,618
#86: Lucie Horsch – Concerto in C-Minor RV 441: III. Allegro
#90: Kojaque – Last Pint
#91: J. Bernardt – On Fire
#96: Andy Brown – Talk Of The Town
#100: Free Love – Pushing Too Hard

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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A chart is a 24/7 thing. Once published, you can consult it around the clock. In the case of the European Border Breakers Chart, there is even much more to explore than just the Top 100. You can split the list into an Airplay Chart and a Streaming Chart, check the tracks that are bubbling just under the Top 100 in the Tips Chart, search the chart archive, watch all the available videos and listen to the songs via streaming platforms, check in what countries each track is successful, etc.
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This week, the EBBChart is a 24/7 thing in more ways than one. The Top 100 counts 24 entries, 7 of which are completely fresh. I’ve listed them below:
#79: Goat Girl – I Don’t Care Pt. 2
#82: Sam Fender – Leave Fast
#87: Apre – All Yours
#88: Cosha – Sad Train Beat (pictured)
#92: whenyoung – Heaven On Earth
#96: Palatine – Paris, L’ombre
#99: Harry Styles – Only Angel

More background information can be found in our weekly chart analysis. 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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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With large parts of Europe now officially in a heatwave, we can announce the winner of the battle for the summer hit of 2018. It’s the Hugel Remix of Belle Ciao by El Profesor (pictured). After claiming the top position in our Streaming Chart for the sixth week in a row, it’s now also the new #1 in this week’s overall European Border Breakers Chart, which takes both streaming and airplay into account. Following the worldwide success of the Netflix series ‘La Casa De Papel’, which it features in, the song now scores in Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, France, and Luxembourg.
Belle Ciao overtakes the first place from Liam Payne & J Balvin’s Familiar, that is a hit in over three times as many countries, but reaches less people. Not only does El Profesor enjoy a massive number of plays on streaming platforms, but at the same time, radio stations are playing the song during hours with many listeners.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the chart, we find 29 (re)entries, the following 10 of which never graced the Top 100 before:
#9: Silk City feat. Mapei – Feel About You
#73: Pale Waves – Eighteen
#78: New Hope Club – Medicine
#82: Maruv – Drunk Groove
#88: Punctual feat. Kid Ink & Skinny Living – King Without A Crown
#89: Amber Arcades – Alpine Town
#92: J. Bernardt – Motel
#94: Jubel feat. Neimy – Dancing In The Moonlight
#97: Lvndscape feat. Cathrine Lassen – Dive With Me
#100: Yazmin Lacey – Black Moon

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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I’m not the bragging kind, but the facts don’t lie: not only does the European Border Breakers Chart include the newest European music, but also the most new European music. Week after week, a large part of the Top 100 consists of fresh songs. This week’s EBBChart introduces you to 29 new tracks, 12 of which never featured in the list before.

These are the newbies in today’s update of our hitlist:
#28: James BKS feat. Allan Kingdom & Manu Dibango – Kwele
#40: Tom Grennan – Barbed Wire
#49: Niall Horan – Finally Free
#55: Salvador Sobral – Excuse Me
#61: Boy Azooga – Taxi To Your Head
#66: King Nun – Chinese Medicine
#71: Wild Youth – Can’t Move On
#77: Sea Girls – Lost
#82: Tracyanne & Danny – Alabama
#83: Nana Adjoa – Three
#87: Lucie Horsch – Concerto In G-Major For Flautino RV 443: III. Allegro Molto
#90: Pattesutter – Technopiik

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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It’s Friday the 13^th, oh happy day! And there are more reasons to be cheerful. For many people the holiday season has started, for instance. Nevertheless, the European Border Breakers Chart will continue to be updated every Friday around noon. In fact, we just did.

Because of the holiday season, many well-known artists refrain from releasing new material. With a little luck, radio stations and streaming services will put more emerging artists in their playlists. And upcoming artists, that’s what the EBBChart is about. European artists, to be precise.

This week’s Top 100 counts 30 (re)entries. Eight of these songs enjoy their very first week in the chart. Here they are:

#25: Tom Grennan – I Might
#32: Yungblud (pictured) – Medication
#61: KMN Gang – KMN Member
#65: Sigrid – Schedules
#78: Lucie Horsch – Flautino Concerto in C Major, RV 443
#92: Bausa – FML
#95: Sabrina & Samantha – Khéops
#97: Savas & Sido feat. Lakman – Neue Welt

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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In the current hot summer weather, the European Border Breakers Chart is an oasis of freshness. There’s no other pool of new European music that’s so quick to discover such a diverse set of future talent from the continent. If you think that’s a bold statement, look at this week’s Top 100. It contains no less than 35 (re)entries! 16 of these tracks are in the chart for the first time.

Allow me to pick one as an example. Nana Adjoa (pictured) is a young Dutch talent, whose debut single The Resolution was a Carte Blanche Music Wildcard over a year ago. She planted the first seeds for international success with her showcase at this year’s ESNS festival. It was an intimate affair, just like her music. Her single Honestly has now been picked up by French radio, resulting in Adjoa’s first EBBChart entry at #82.

This is the complete list of this week’s entries:
#38: The Blaze – She
#44: Pale Waves – Noises
#51: Takagi & Ketra feat. Giusy Ferreri & Sean Kingston – Amore E Capoeira
#52: B Young – 079ME
#55: Biflats – El Bou De Portbou
#59: IamDDB – Drippy
#70: Yazmin Lacey – Something My Heart Trusts
#76: IamDDB – Kurr£ncy
#77: Yungblud – California
#82: Nana Adjoa – Honestly
#84: The Mauskovic Dance Band – Continue The Fun
#85: Rohey – I Found Me
#87: Boy Azooga – Breakfast Epiphany
#88: Off Bloom – Not Sorry
#95: Rumbaristas – Sabe A Miel
#97: Eddy De Pretto – Kid

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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The European Border Breakers Chart only contains new European artists, showcasing the cultural diversity of new European music. With 28 (re)entries, there’s no doubt it’s your best source to discover tomorrow’s super stars.

The 15 newcomers in this week’s chart are from a large variety of European countries: Sweden, France, Norway, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark… but the highest new entry is from the smallest country of them all: the Netherlands. At #26 we welcome Pip Blom (pictured), who is especially popular in Great Britain. Perhaps even more than in her home country. Pussycat is Pip Blom’s fourth EBBCharts hit. Only her most recent single I Think I’m In Love, that just left the Top 100, gained a higher position and got to #24.

These are all 15 of this week’s first-timers:
#26: Pip Blom – Pussycat
#30: Hugo Helmig – Wild
#34: Loredana – Sonnenbrille
#42: Miel De Montagne – Pourquoi Pas
#59 : Kylypso – Honestly
#61: Harry Styles – Woman
#71: HMLTD – Pictures Of You
#76: Subjective – Inkolelo
#80: Fieh – 25
#84: T Mulla – Dollar Pound Cake
#88: Youngr – Lost In Translation
#90: Cliqme feat. Capital T. & Koach2.0 – Across The World
#93: Das Body – Boys
#98: Halo Maud – Baptism
#99: Albin Lee Meldau – About You

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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It’s Friday, music discovery day! Like every week, the European Border Breakers Chart is full of new European music that is crossing the borders of the artists’ home countries. These are 100 tracks that are currently being played on radio stations or listened to via streaming services across the continent, waiting to reach an even larger public.

Based on her success in the EBBChart, the definitive international break-through of Belgian singer Angèle (pictured) can’t be far away. Her third single La Thune is also her third hit in our chart. It’s this week’s highest entry of a total of 10 first-timers (apart from another 17 re-entries). These are all 10 of them:

#39: Angèle – La Thune
#48: Freya Ridings – Ultraviolet
#62: Lump feat. Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay – Hand Hold Hero
#67: Shy Martin – Forget To Forget
#79: Rohey – Is This All There Is?
#81: Malte Ebert – Rather Be
#90: Sigrid – Focus
#94: Lil Halima – Train
#95: Klan – Tropfen
#97: Tom Tripp – Loving You More

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.

Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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