At first glance, the first European Border Breakers Chart for 2018 is ‘just another EBBChart’, highlighting the emerging European artists that are most popular outside their home country. But it’s not. From now on, the chart is based on both airplay and streaming data. On top of that, besides the combined Top 100 we now also present a separate airplay chart and streaming chart.

Furthermore, in order to create room for even more upcoming European acts, as per now tracks are removed from the chart after 52 weeks. As a consequence, this week’s EBBChart has an exceptionally high number of (re)entries: an unprecedented 46(!) of them. This new chart rule has an immediate positive effect on the number of songs that are in the Top 100 for the first time.

There are no less than 18 newcomers: Big Shaq – Man’s Not Hot (#58), Therapie Taxi feat. Roméo Elvis – Hit Sale (#61; pictured), Kokab – Got You (#63), Sam Fender – Start Again (#64), IamDDB – Shade (#73), Mr. Jukes feat. De La Soul & Horace Andy – Leap Of Faith (#77), Kelly Lee Owens – Lucid (#79), Nabihah Iqbal – Saw U Twice (#83), Måneskin – Chosen (#86), Jorja Smith – Where Did I Go? (#88), Ten Tonnes – Cracks Between (#92), Indiia feat. Whitney Philips – Out Of Love (#93), Mickey – Drive (#94), Mr. Jukes feat. Lalah Hathaway – From Golden Stars Comes Silver Dew (#95), Joe Fox – What’s The Word (#96), Altin Gün – Goca Dünya (#98), Shy Luv – Fashion (#99), and Kurupt FM – Suttin Like That (#100).

Never before there was so much new European talent to be discovered ?

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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 Charts show no signs of slowing down when it comes to introducing you to upcoming European artists. The charts indicate the songs that are most successful outside the artists’ home countries, based on airplay. Other success factors will be added to the equation in the new year.

This week’s Top 100 welcomes 16 new tracks, four of which spend their very first week in the chart: Kamferdrops – En Liten Fågel (#48), Tom Tripp – Pamela (#82), Boye & Sigvardt – Give Me (#88), Shanguy – La Louze (#100; pictured).

There is no official year-end chart, but I can offer you a sneak peak of the most successful songs in the EBBChart throughout 2017 via this link (loading can take a little while). The tracks are ranked by the amount of people they reached via airplay. Happy browsing!

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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Well, we could’ve expected this, didn’t we? With less high profile new releases and radio stations that dedicate a lot of their air time to musical reviews of the year, all-time charts and specialist programming, we find only two really new entries in this week’s European Border Breakers Chart.

Fittingly, the highest of the two is a festive track. All I Want For Xmas Is Rock And Roll by LA Wise Man (pictured) enters at #85. LA Wise Man is a new project of Sam Dust, a.k.a. LA Priest. And just as appropriately, the other entry, at #98, is new single My Obsession by one of the most promising bands to come out of the UK lately: Pale Waves.

Only two entries in the Top 100 doesn’t mean there is little action in the EBBChart. On the contrary: a whopping 18 tracks re-enter this week. Among them Carte Blanche Music favourites like Dua Lipa, Alma and Pale Waves’ debut single There’s A Honey. Over at the Tips by Country chart La Louze by Shanguy enters at #2. One to watch!

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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2017 isn’t over yet, there are still plenty new artists to be discovered. Throughout the year, the European Border Breakers Chart is a great tool to do so. It reflects the crossborder success of emerging European artists on 50 public radio stations.

Once again, the Top 100 counts a lot of (re)entries. 17 of them. Nine tracks have never been in the list before: Dua Lipa – Golden Slumbers (#57), Freya Ridings – Lost Without You (#64), Not3s – My Lover (#77), Grace Carter – Ashes (#84), Vibbar – Sweden (#94), Jadu Heart x Mura Masa – U Never Call Me (#95), Xenoula – Luna Man (#97), CliQ feat. Alika – Wavey (#98) and Fil Bo Riva – Head Sonata (Love Control) (#100; pictured).

How many of these promising artists did you know already? If you want to listen to their tracks and watch their videos, please head over to www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu and click the play/share button behind each track. This button also lets you share the song’s position if you like what you hear. On the site you’ll find the complete Top 100, as well as other charts (like the Tips, ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100).

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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Clickbait alert… Just when you thought the time had come for Christmas songs to steal the spots of current music on the radio stations’ playlists, something incredible happens: This week’s European Border Breakers Chart counts no less than 18 entries, 14 of which are brand new. So, there’s a lot of new music to discover.

These are the first-timers in the chart: Louis Tomlinson – Miss You (#30), Beauty Freak feat. MaLee – My Beauty (#41), Wally – Uitzicht (67), Atlas Knox – Do It (#70), Calum Scott – You Are The Reason (#73), K-Phax – Oh My God (#74), Lewis Capaldi – Fade (#85), Hugo Helmig – Please Don’t Lie (#86), Smerz – Have Fun (#87), Bülow – Not A Love Song (#91), Pip Blom – School (#94), Nilüfer Yanya – Keep On Calling (#98), Pale Waves – There’s A Honey (#99; pictured), and Francis Novotny – Broken Arrow (#100).

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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If you followed the European Border Breakers Chart last year, you couldv’e seen the European Border Breakers Awards for Alma, Alice Merton, Youngr, Skott a.o. coming. Only one more EBBA is to be announced. Who will be awarded with it? Check the #EBBCharts and you might be able to do an educated guess…

Meanwhile, with the end of the year insight, radio stations start to look back and give the best songs another spin. Apparently, Zayn & Taylor Swift (I Don’t Wanna Live Forever), The Blaze (Territory), and Jain (Come) belong to that select group. They are among the tracks re-entering the Top 100 this week. More recent singles that make a comeback are Homesick by Dua Lipa (feat. Chris Martin) and La Loi De Murphy by Angèle (pictured).

In fact, only one song is completely new to this week’s chart: Danish artist Necklace with Between (Me And You) (#79). I can’t remember that ever happened before. And to be honest: I think it’s a pity. There’s more than enough good new music out there…

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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Two months before the European Border Breakers Chart was officially introduced at the 2016 Eurosonic Noorderslag conference, we started testing the chart that we had thought out and built in the months before. We published the first Top 100, under the radar, exactly two years ago, on 27 November 2015. Two years and many interesting features later, some exciting developments are about to be rolled out.

But now, we present you with the latest chart, that features six brand new tracks, some of which you have already read about on Carte Blanche Music. This week’s highest entry is for German singer Nico Santos, whose Rooftop (in at #49) embraces the same musical mix as Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, for instance. One of my personal favourites is the groove debut single of Davey Newington’s band Boy Azooga, Face Behind Her Cigarette (#55; pictured). Thanks to Alma, Dusk Till Dawn is twice in the chart: Zayn’s original (featuring Sia) holds on to the top spot, but the Finnish singer’s cover, recorded for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, enters at #56. Another debut single, Human – Higher, demands the #64 position. If the title of their hit is anything to go by, the Swedish pop collective is destined to rise next week. One Rizla by Shame is new at #93, and finally Younger x Endor – Give It Up breaks into the chart at #98 this week. A great remake of Lee Dorsey’s 1969 original.

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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This week’s European Border Breakers Chart counts 12 entries, five tracks of which are first-timers. All of them emerging European artists, who start to have success outside their home country.

Sigrid, a talent from Norway who’s Don’t Kill That Vibe and Plot Twist you could’ve spotted before via the #EBBCharts, is the highest entry of this week with her new single Strangers (#17). Pale Waves (pictured) follow up their hit Television Romance (that came to #41) with New Year’s Eve, which comes in at #75. German duo Aden (Jarden) x (Björn) Olson make their debut at #79 with Cloud 9, Swiss/English duo Freedo feat. Gabriella Vixen do the same with Keep Your Love On Me (#88), and finally, all-female rock band Dream Wife propose Let’s Make Out at #98.

In the Tips chart, ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100, Your Tears by Rews is the highest newcomer.

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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After two #4 singles (Dye My Hair and Chasing Highs), Finnish rising superstar Alma (pictured) scores her first Top 3 hit in the European Border Breakers Charts with Phases (feat. French Montana). It must have been long ago a Finnish artist was as commercially successful outside her home country as this rapper.

Elsewhere in the Top 100 ten emerging European artists are entering the chart, eventually hoping to optain the same amount of success as Alma: Vargas & Lagola – Rolling Stone (#44), Bishop Briggs – Dream (#47), Lewis Capaldi – Mercy (#49), Raye feat. Mr Eazi – Decline (#65), Dermot Kennedy – Moments Passed (#72), Alien Stadium – This One’s For The Humans (#77), Goat Girl – Cracker Drool (#80), Royaume – If We (#97), The Orielles – Let Your Dogtooth Grow (#98) and Declan McKenna – Why Do You Feel So Down (#100).

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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Dua Lipa, Alan Walker, Anne-Marie, Alma… These are just a few names of European hit artists that first became visible on a European level in the European Border Breakers Chart. Want to know who tomorrow’s superstars are? They might be among the seven newcomers the Top 100 welcomes today…

Talking about Alan Walker: this winner of a European Border Breakers Award scores the highest entry in this week’s chart. His new single All Falls Down (feat. Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals) comes in at a respectable #18. Other entries are Tom Gregory – Run To You (#70), Touts – Bombscare (#80), Angèle – La Loi De Murphy (#87), Sälen – I Am Champagne, (#95), Suzi Wu – Taken Care Of (#96), and Dutch indie sensation Pip Blom (#99; pictured).

For the complete 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), are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.

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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