An incredible 21 songs enter the European Border Breakers Chart this week. In other words: one fifth of the Top 100 consists of fresh emerging artists, making it the source for discovering new European music.

The two highest entries make quite a splash. Alice Merton (pictured) debutes impressively with her first single No Roots at #11. Read more about her here. Only two notches below, Jax Jones’s new single Instruction (feat. Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don), comes in. The Discotexas Band defends the Portuguese honours and is new at #67 with Family Affair. A few days ago I introduced you to BC Unidos feat. Shungudzo and today they make their first appearance in the EBBChart with Bicycles at #72. Other first-timers this week are Belau feat. Szécsi Böbe, from Hungary, with You And I (#83), Findlay – Monomania (Nobody Loves You Like I Love You) (#86), Pixx – Baboo (#88), Sigrid’s George Ezra cover Budapest (#98) and J. Bernardt – The Question (#99).

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 Bubbling Under, which ranks the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), can be found at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu.

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.