WHAT IT IS: Newly signed to Republic, 16-year-old KIAN has emerged as one of Australia’s hottest rising acts, with millions of streams and radio airplay success. His emotionally charged single, “Waiting,” has racked up 23.5m Spotify streams (and counting), soared to #1 on Spotify’s Hot Hits Australia and was added to the platform’s highly coveted Chill Hits (4m followers), Pop Rising (1.5m) and Love Pop (2.6m) playlists. Additionally, the hit song went #1 at Shazam in Australia, hit the Top 20 at Apple Music and vaulted to #3 on the national ARIA Singles Chart.
ALBUM: TBA
RELEASE DATE: 2019
SINGLE: “Waiting”
LIVE: St. Laneway Festival 2/9 (Australia); European promo 3/11-15; Great Escape Festival in May (U.K.)
INTERNET: 16.3k Instagram followers, 3k Facebook likes; 1.7m monthly Spotify listeners, 7k followers, 23.5m single streams, 4k YouTube Subscribers, 800k total views
RADIO: Impacted AAA 1/14; key adds at KGSR, WRLT, KINK, SXM Spectrum, KGSR, WRLT, WPYA-F2, WCOO, WMMM; won the Unearthed High competition in Australia, hosted by international tastemaker radio station triple j
PRESS: Coverage includes Music Connection, triple j, Music Feeds, The Music Network, more
BOOKING: Tom Windish, Rob Zifarelli, Paradigm
MANAGEMENT: Dion Brownfield