WHAT IT IS: Leaving her hometown in New Jersey to chase her dreams in L.A., Nessa Barrett took control of her music career at the age of 17. Sharing every side of herself in her songs, Barret gradually built an online following, eventually building an audience of 20m+ fans across platforms. Now 19, Barrett is disrupting the pop world on her own terms. After accruing nearly 250m streams across her first three tracks—including her breakthrough single, “la di die” f/jxdn—Barrett is putting the
finishing touches on her forthcoming debut EP.
SINGLE: “i hope ur miserable until ur dead”
TV: Jimmy Kimmel, Ellen
LIVE: Performed at Lollapalooza with jxdn; upcoming headlining club dates this fall
INTERNET: 16m+ TikTok followers; 5.6m Instagram followers; nearly 250m global career streams; reached Top 50 Global and U.S. Spotify Viral charts, 3.2m+ monthly listeners; playlists: Spotify’s Pop Sauce (cover), Teen Beats (cover); Amazon’s Pop Lab; Tidal’s Pop Art; “la di die” hit Top 100 Global and U.S. Shazam charts and Top 10 Genius Trending chart
RADIO: Single impacting Alt radio on 8/17; “la di die” peaked at #16 at Alt and #20 at Top 40; nominated for iHeart Music Award earlier this year
PRESS: Nylon (“As the last line of ‘la di die’ says: She’s gonna be a superstar”), Refinery29, Variety, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Allure, Buzzfeed, more
BOOKING: Matt Galle/CAA
MANAGEMENT: Bree Shepherd/BlckShep Management