vibe-raters
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LW: 22W: 23W: 2Lola Young
Island
booking: Kirk Sommer/WME
mgmt: Nick Shymansky & Nick Hugget/Day One Music
Album: This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway
Track: Messy
40.3m+ monthly listeners; “Messy” hit Top 10 Spotify Global, Top 15 U.S.; #1 Alt, #5 at Top 40, #8 Hot AC, #25 AC, #10 AAA; 527m+ streams on Spotify alone, hit 100k in consumption in eight weeks; hit #1 TikTok Top 50; added to Today’s Top Hits, Pop Rising, Today’s Hits, more; Coachella 2025; featured on Tyler, the Creator’s album; viral Fallon performance
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LW: 52W: 53W: 5Alex Warren
Atlantic
booking: Marty Diamond, Zac Bluestone & Mike Malak/Wasserman
mgmt: Brian Sokolik/Odd Projects
Album: You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1)
Track: Ordinary
36m+ monthly listeners; 1.5b career streams; 238m+ Spotify streams on “Ordinary,” Top 5 Global Spotify, Top 10 U.S., hit #1 Spotify U.K., more; #22 at Pop, #23 at Hot AC; You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) Top 50 on Top 200 Albums chart; sold-out Cheaper Than Therapy World Tour; Lollapalooza, Summer Fest, Bonnaroo, more; Fallon; Netflix’s Love is Blind performance; featured in People, SiriusXM, more
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LW: 102W: 103W: 9The Marías
Nice Life/Atlantic
booking: Sam Kirby & Parker Glenn/UTA
mgmt: Jonathan Eshak/Mick Management
Album: Submarine
Track: Run Your Mouth & No One Noticed
1.3b+ global streams; “Back To Me” up 80 points after Coachella to #80 Spotify U.S.; “No One Noticed” Top 20 at Pop, Top 10 Spotify U.S. (new peak), Top 40 Global; “Run Your Mouth” spent 26 weeks on Alt chart; opened for Billie Eilish; Coachella, Lollapalooza Chicago, Argentina & Brazil 2025; announced 2025 The Submarine Tour (Extended); Zane Lowe interview, featured in L.A. Times, Variety, more
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LW: 112W: 113W: 11Sleep Token
RCA
booking: Nick Storch/IAG (NA/SA) & Paul Ryan/UTA (RoW)
mgmt: Ryan Richards/Future History Management
Album: Even in Arcadia
Track: Emergence
Album due 5/9; 1.2m global album sales, 1.3b global streams, 8m monthly listeners, 15m weekly U.S. streams; 2.3m first-day streams on “Emergence,” debuted #11 Spotify U.S.; 17-city Even in Arcadia U.S. headline tour (fall); headlining Download Festival, Rock im Park & Rock am Ring, Louder Than Life; 2x Heavy Music Awards winner; featured in Kerrang!, Rock Sound (cover), Revolver (cover), more
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LW: 32W: 33W: 3Tucker Wetmore
Back Blocks/Mercury/UMG Nashville
booking: Braeden Rountree & Carrie Murphy/WME
Album: What Not To
Track: 3,2,1
Debut album due 4/25, ACM New Male Artist of the Year nominee; “3,2,1” was #1 Most Added, #40 at Country radio; 906m+ global streams; “Wine into Whiskey” hit #4 on Spotify Viral Global/U.S.; “Wind Up Missin’ You” platinum, hit #1 at Country; Ryman debut 5/1; Grand Ole Opry debut; extended Waves on a Sunset tour; support on Luke Combs’ FARM TOUR, Thomas Rhett’s Better in Boots (2025); CMA Fest, more; Spotify RADAR artist
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LW: 62W: 63W: 6Sam Barber
Lockeland Springs/Atlantic
booking: Matt Runner, Joe Atamian & Jonathan Levine/Wasserman
mgmt: Colton Kramer & Jerrin Uecker/Outlaw Foundry
Album: Restless Mind
Track: Indigo
1.3b+ streams; 11m+ monthly listeners; 450k+ TikTok videos on “Indigo” f/Avery Anna, Top 50 Spotify's Top 200, Top 10 Viral, Hot Country Artist to Watch (2024); Top 15 Apple Country; extended Restless Mind World Tour (U.S., EU & AUS); performed Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, more; “Thought of You” Spotify Editors’ Picks: Best Songs; "Better Year" sync on Yellowstone; “Straight and Narrow” 2X platinum; featured in NPR, SPIN, more.
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LW: 72W: 73W: 8Dylan Scott
Curb Records
booking: WME
mgmt: Kerri Edwards/KP Entertainment
Album: Livin' My Best Life (Still)
Track: This Town's Been Too Good to Us
4b+ global streams; album 1.3m+ ATD; 5.6m monthly listeners; five #1 singles, currently 4th most-played artist at Country radio, two singles Top 10 at Country twice in 2025; 6b+ TikTok views; headlining "Country Til I Die Tour,” which begins 4/3; Stagecoach, Country Stampede, Country Jam USA, Rock The Clock, YQM, more; TODAY Show, CMT; 2x ACM nominee, CMT Music Awards Winner; featured in Holler, Muscle and Fitness, American Songwriter, more
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LW: 92W: 93W: --Ella Langley
SAWGOD/Columbia
booking: The Neal Agency
mgmt: Bradley Jordan & Megan Hinde/Painted Rock Management
Album: hungover
Track: you look like you love me & weren’t for the wind
“you look like you love me” platinum, 4x ACM nominated, hit #1 at Country radio, Top 5 TikTok Top 50, hit Top 25 Spotify U.S. and Apple U.S., 10b+ TikTok views, 2.1m+ U.S. consumption; “weren’t for the wind” Top 15 at Country, entered U.S. Spotify; supporting Riley Green’s Damn Country Music Tour, sold out upcoming 30-date still hungover headline tour; most nominated artist at 2025 ACMs (8); appeared on Fallon, TODAY
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LW: 132W: 133W: 13sombr
SMB Music/Warner Records
booking: Matt Meyer & John Taylor/UTA
mgmt: Self-managed
Album:
Track: back to friends & undressed
400m+ global streams; “back to friends” #27 at Alt radio, added to Alt Nation & KROQ, ~1.5m daily Spotify streams, #27 Global, #15 U.S., added to Today’s Top Hits, Hot Hits USA, more; 300k+ TikTok videos, 1b views; 1m+ first-day global streams on “undressed,” #23 Spotify U.S., #58 Global, added to NMF, Pop Rising, more; opening for Daniel Seavey’s U.S. Tour (3/18-4/19) & Nessa Barrett’s EU Tour (5/27-6/23); featured in OTW, UPROXX, more
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LW: --2W: --3W: --Malcolm Todd
Columbia
booking: CAA
mgmt: OSV Projects
Album: Malcolm Todd
Track: Chest Pain (I Love)
Album out now; 9.4m+ monthly Spotify listeners; nearly 4m video creations, 9.5b TikTok views on "Chest Pain (I Love),” 100m+ streams; SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio Takeover; "Bleed” f/Omar Apollo “Song of the Week” on KNDD-Seattle; sold-out North American headline tour kicks off in May; appeared on Kimmel; TikTok’s “Behind the Breakthrough”; GENIUS Verified, VEVO DSCVR; featured in Rolling Stone, UPROXX, more
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LW: 122W: 123W: 12Riley Green
Nashville Harbor/BMLG
booking: Austin Neal/The Neal Agency
mgmt: Daniel Miller, Zach Sutton & Danielle Broome/Fusion Music/Red Light
Album: Don’t Mind If I Do
Track: Worst Way
5b+ global career streams; four #1 singles to date, “Worst Way” (300m+ streams) now Top 15 on Country radio, added to Spotify’s Hot Country, Apple Music’s Today’s Country; Damn Country Music Tour spring/summer 2025 headline tour; Country Thunder Arizona (4/10) and Florida (5/2), Sand in My Boots (5/17), CMA Fest (6/5), more; Kimmel, Fallon, more; 2024 CMA Award winner, 5 ACM 2025 noms; more
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LW: 142W: 143W: 14Ravyn Lenae
Atlantic
booking: Fred Zahedinia & Evan Hancock/Wasserman; Andy Duggan/WME (Int.)
mgmt: John Bogaard/Terrains
Album: BIRD'S EYE
Track: Love Me Not
12m+ monthly listeners; “Love Me Not” up +15% in U.S. streams, #40 Spotify U.S., #73 Global; added to Pop Rising (cover), Hot Hits USA, Everyday Favorites (cover), more; impacting radio April; direct support on Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet Tour (fall) (5 nights at Crypto.com Arena); sold out NA/EU Bird's Eye Tour fall 2024; Coachella 2025, Vivid LIVE, more; Fallon; featured in FADER (cover), NYT, more
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LW: --2W: --3W: --Wet Leg
Domino Recording Company
booking: Latane Hughes & Marty Diamond/Wasserman
mgmt: Martin Hall & Elena Pelse/Hall or Nothing Management
Album: moisturizer
Track: catch these fists
moisturizer due 7/11; 2.6m+ monthly Spotify listeners; single “catch these fists” debuted #24 on Alt chart, 11 new adds this week, #26 debut at AAA, 13 new adds; big late summer/autumn tour to be announced; appeared on Fallon; won three Grammys and two BRIT Awards; 74m+ combined YouTube video views, 221k+ subs
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LW: 152W: 153W: 15Bhad Bhabie
B.H.A.D. Music/Hitmaker
Album:
Track: Ms. Whitman
6m+ monthly Spotify listeners, 55m+ global streams RTD on “Ms Whitman,” 23m+ video views; added to Spotify’s big on the internet, Spotify Mix, Release Radar, on-repeat, Apple Music’s #OnRepeat, High Maintenance, Top 100: USA, more; hit #56 on Billboard Top 100; Top 2 trending videos on YouTube, “OG CRASHOUT” #1, 1.4b+ combined video views, 8m+ subs; appeared on High Low with EmRata; featured in iHeart, Complex, People, more. Marketing: Giuvenile Marketing
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LW: --2W: --3W: --The Hives
Play It Again Sam
booking: Robby Fraser/WME
mgmt: Matthew Greer/ATC
Album: The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
Track: Enough Is Enough
Album due 8/29; 850k+ global streams on "Enough Is Enough,” 35k playlist adds; 602k+ Spotify global streams, 7,400 Shazams,153k+ Apple Music streams; "Enough Is Enough,” KROQ world premiere, added at Alt Nation’s Advanced Placement, KPNT, KROX, WGBJ, WRXL, more, played on Strykers Out of Order, more; "Enough Is Enough" x Fox Sports; The Hives North America Tour (9/8-9/25); featured in NYT’s Weekly Playlist, Pitchfork, FLOOD, Stereogum, more
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LW: 162W: 163W: 16Jonah Kagen
Arista
booking: Griffin Perkiel/IAG
mgmt: Kylie Cammon
Album: Black Dress
Track: Don’t You Give Up on Me Yet
360m+ global streams; 2.6m+ monthly listeners; “Don’t You Give Up on Me Yet” breaking at Alt and AAA; “God Needs the Devil” #6 at Alt, hit #21 at AAA; sold out shows on 20-city “Save My Soul” headline tour; wrapped EU support for Chance Peña (12k tickets); radio shows in Tampa, Tulsa, more; performed at Summerfest, Wicker Park, ACL, more; Under the Big Sky 2025; syncs on Netflix, American Idol; featured in OTW, EUPHORIA, Atwood, more. Booking: Griffin Perkiel/IAG