Rolling Stone USA - 08.2019

36 | Rolling Stone | August 2019

The Mix

The ‘Rolling Stone’ Breakthrough 25 highlights

the fastest-rising new artists

Breakthrough

Artists

COUNTRY ROOKIE

This Louisiana singer-

song writer’s bummed-out

ballad “Rules of Breaking

Up” scored on country

radio, and the airplay

translated to more than

33 million streams this

year. A debut album,

co-produced by Shane

McAnally, is in the works.

Brandon

Ratcliff

Monument

1

UNIT GROWTH refers to gains in audio streams compared with the previous month.

Eligible artists must have released their debut in the past five years.

UNIT GROWTH

2.9K

Only the Family

Empire

Marc E. Bassy

Republic

Jay Critch

Interscope

Lewis Capaldi

Virgin EMI

Chelsea Cutler

Republic

Prettymuch

Columbia

Smino

Interscope

You n g Nudy

RCA

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10

Isaiah Rashad

(^2) Top Dawg Entertainment
UNIT GROWTH
2,300
1,500
1,100
1,000
900
861.2
824.8
780.2
2,500 96%
51%
29%
24%
24%
23%
22%
22%
22%
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Gucci Mane
feat. Justin Bieber
Love Thru
the Computer
Atlantic
Sam Feldt feat. Rani
Post Malone
Spinnin’
R3HAB and A Touch of Class
All Around the
World (La La La)
CYB3RPVNK
Mark Ronson
feat. Camila Cabello
Find U Again
Columbia
Jon Pardi
Heartache
Medication
Capitol Nashville
Gucci Mane feat.
Meek Mill
Backwards
Atlantic
Mabel
Mad Love
Polydor
Lizzo
Good as Hell
Atlantic
Old Dominion
One Man Band
RCA Nashville
The ‘Rolling Stone’ Trending 25 ranks
the fastest-rising songs in the United States
Trending
Songs
TIKTOK TUNE Earlier this
year, the video app Tik-
Tok helped propel Lil Nas
X’s “Old Town Road” to
Number One. Since then,
it has helped boost other
idiosyncratic tracks,
including this onomato-
poeic single from pro-
ducer Y2K and Canadian
rapper BBNO$.
Y2K and BBNO$
Lalala
Columbia

1

‡ (^) WEEKLY GROWTH refers to percentage growth in audio streams compared with the
previous week. Eligible songs must have been released in the past three years.
Young Nudy
In May, the
Atlanta rapper
released Sli’merre,
an impressive
collaboration with
Pi’erre Bourne
that has more
than 60 million
streams to date,
helping him
step out of the
shadow of his bet-
ter-known cousin,
21 Savage.
Lewis Capaldi
This Scottish
singer-songwriter
is well-known in
the U.K., where
“Someone You
Loved” went
Number One
zearlier this
year. Now the
track is picking
up momentum
stateside.
“Backwards”
On this standout
from Gucci’s
new LP, he and
Meek Mill trade
tales of run-ins
with the law.
FROM TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT: MATTHEW BERINATO; ALEXANDER BORTZ; ED GUMUCHIAN; PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES; INTERSCOPE RECORDS; ALEXANDRA GAVILLET; NICK KARP; RMV/SHUTTERSTOCK; CLYDE MUNROE; JACK MCKAIN; ORIENTEER
WEEKLY GROWTH
118%
Chelsea
Cutler
WEEKLY GROWTH