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.