WHAT IT IS: In two years, music has carried this 22-year-old singer/songwriter around the world to places far from his native Strafford, Vt. Last year, Kahan’s international hit, “Hurt Somebody,” racked up more than 200m streams while going triple platinum in Australia and gold in six countries. Later, his “False Confidence” went Top 5 at Triple A radio and “Young Blood” garnered millions of streams, while selling out tours in North America, Europe and the U.K. In the midst of this whirlwind, he assembled his debut album, Busyhead, which is due early summer and features his latest single, “Mess.”
ALBUM: Busyhead
RELEASE DATE: 6/14
SINGLE: “Mess”
TV: Appeared on Colbert 3/1/18
LIVE: Fall 2019 headline tour on deck; previous successes include sold-out headline tour (fall 2018) and U.K./Euro headline your; opened for James Bay on spring 2019 tour; also opened for George Ezra, LP and The Strumbellas on U.S national tours; supported Leon Bridges in Australia, Dean Lewis in Europe and U.K.; performed at Firefly 2018
INTERNET: 16k Facebook likes, 7.3k Twitter followers, 47k Instagram followers; 79k YouTube followers, 22m total views; 100k Spotify followers, 6.1m monthly listeners; debuted on Spotify Top 500 global monthly listeners with 6.1m
RADIO: 3/11 impact date; now building at #31 AAA with an audience of 300k+; last single “False Confidence” made it to #4 AAA; debut single “Hurt Somebody” peaked at #1 on Top 40 radio charts in Australia for three weeks—third-most-played song on Australian airwaves in 2018
PRESS: Billboard ([“Of ‘Mess’] soaring folk-pop single”), Stereogum, Nylon, Clash, Idolator (“Noah’s debut LP is shaping up to be one of the year’s most-anticipated”), more
BOOKING: Joe Atamian, Jonathan Adelman/Paradigm
PUBLISHING: Jenn Knoepfle/Sony/ATV
MANAGEMENT: Drew Simmons/Foundations Artist Management