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.

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.

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.

One week ago, many European radio stations attended the ESNS showcase festival in Groningen, the Netherlands. Some of the appearing artists clearly made a big impression, resulting in significant airplay. This shows in this week’s European Border Breakers Chart…

Yungblud (pictured) has four tracks (or five, if you want) inside the Top 100: I Love You, Will You Marry Me sits at #17, his latest single Polygraph Eyes enters at #34, the mash-up of Camilla Cabello’s Havana and Dua Lipa’s New Rules that he played for Studio Brussel comes in at #74 thanks to airplay on that Belgian station, and the song that started his career, King Charles, re-enters at #93.
Another artist that clearly took advantage of his presence at the festival, is EBBA winner Youngr. His collab with Endor, Give It Up, is still at #33, his new single Ooh Lordy is new at #62 and the track that won him his EBBA, Out Of My System, re-enters at #89. Tom Grennan holds three positions as well: Found What I’ve Been Looking For (#21), Royal Highness (#24), but the best of them all, his just-released single Sober, crashes in at #48.
Jade Bird hits the jackpot with her latest single Lottery as well, by entering at #59, and Arp Frique‘s Nos Magia is new at #82.

Other entries this week are Amber Arcades – It Changes (#60), Lotto Boyzz feat. Vianni – Bim Bam (#69), Sea Girls – What For (#73), Harry Styles – Wild Thoughts (#78), Farah Elle – Teardrop (#95), Rosie Carney – Awake Me (#96), and The Surfing Magazines – New Day (#98).

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

While Dua Lipa still ‘rules’ the European Border Breakers Chart, the Top 100 greets six newcomers this week among a total of 15 (re)entries. If you don’t have time to check them all, at least give these a listen: Moncrieff – Symptoms (#62), Tom Grennan – Royal Highness (#79), Isaac Gracie – The Death Of You & I (#81; pictured), Lcaw feat. Sophie Hintze – Staring At The Sun (#87), Nilüfer Yanya – Baby Luv (#91) and Shy Luv – Like A River (#100). You can hear all of this week’s (re)entries in this Spotify playlist.

Meanwhile, Témé Tan’s new single Coups De Griffe shoots from #82 to #52, also sparking new interest from radio in his earlier singles Ça Va Pas La Tête? and Améthys. Both of them re-enter the EBBChart this week.

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). For more charts (like the Tips, ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), please visit www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu.

Like every website, you can visit the European Border Breakers Chart 24/7. But there is one specific moment that’s particularly interesting: Fridays around noon. That’s the time the new chart is put up and in line with New Music Friday, it’s a great way to discover emerging European acts achieving success outside their home countries. The new chart is no exception.

This week’s EBBChart counts 12 entries, half of which have never made the Top 100 before: Wincent Weiss – Frische Luft (#42), NOTD feat. Dagny – Summer Of Love (#59), Bare Jams – Strange Mind (#84), Tom Grennan – Found What I’ve Been Looking For (#89; pictured), The Bay Rays – Integration (#94) and The Blaze – Virile (#99).
Also check Greg’s Love by Seramic feat. Bootsy Collins, re-entering at #91 (bonus tip ? ).

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). For more charts (like the Tips, ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), please visit www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu.

From the 14 entries in this week’s European Border Breakers Chart, 10 have been in the list before. Apparently, the European radio stations monitored played a lot of recurrents last week 😉 .

The highest brand new track, at #67, is Came Here For Love by Sigala & Ella Eyre (real names: Bruce Fielder & Ella McMahon; pictured). The other first-timers are: Praying by Tom Grennan (#96), Love’s A Stranger by Warhaus (#98) and Volare by Fabio Rovazzi feat. Gianni Morandi (#99).

For more new tracks that were never in the Top 100 before, I recommend our tip list, the Bubbling Under chart.

For all 100 positions in our main chart, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). For more charts (like the Bubbling Under), please visit www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu.