20 New Artists Poised To Be The Summer’s Hottest Live Acts

Concert crowdTicketfly dug deep into its data across a wide range of genres to pick what it believes will be the hottest new live artists this year. Tor Miller, for example, offers indie-pop jams and a strong live show and his latest single Nylon comes with a “stadium-sized hook that can launch a career and dominate a summer.”

Here is Ticketfly’s 20 artists to see this spring (in alphabetical order):

  1. Ticket scalpingAlex G
  2. Andra Day
  3. Aurora
  4. Diet Cig
  5. Four Tet
  6. Hippo Campus
  7. Jamie Lawson
  8. Kaleo
  9. Lapsley
  10. Miike Snow
  11. Mothers
  12. MOTHXR
  13. PWR BTM
  14. Rudimental
  15. Skrizzly Adams
  16. Sunflower Bean
  17. The Shelters
  18. The Struts
  19. The Suffers
  20. Tor Miller

Ticketfly’s curation team collated a list of over 200 breakout and emerging artists destined to make an impact this year.  The the team curated the list down to 20 acts adding a mix of data and social insights provided from Pandora and Next Big Sound.

Click here for the full 200 list.

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Watch Kanye West Debut Auto-Tuned Track, Perform ‘Pop Style’ Live

Kanye West unveiled a meditative, religious-themed freestyle during his April 9th performance at the Paradise International Music Festival in the Philippines. The song, dubbed “I Don’t Want to Be Liked” in a YouTube clip, finds the rapper-producer crooning through heavy Auto-Tune over stark piano chords, Pitchfork reports.  

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It’s Official: Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo Has Hit #1

Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo Hits #1Kanye West’s album has hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart…

Last week it was widely anticipated that The Life of Pablo would hit number one, and now it’s official.

According to Nielsen Music, The Life of Pablo earned the equivalent of 94,000 album units in the  week ending April 7th. Of the total equivalent album units, 28,000 were solid album sales and the remainder was made up of streaming. Meaning  approximately 70% of Kanye’s equivalent album sales were from streaming services.

This really signifies the important of streaming figures being added to the metrics which Billboard uses to rank albums. Other factors included in the multi-metric consumption are traditional album sales, and track equivalents.

But how did he do it with no CD’s, no Vinyl and no iTunes?

Kanye adopted a series of strategies to reach number one. Firstly, he made his album a Tidal exclusive , which reportedly racked up 250 million streams in the first 10 days of availability. Then West increased the availability of the album by making it widely available across a series of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, which together have hundreds of millions of active users.

On top of this, Kanye West modified the album on several occasions, giving his fans reason to stream the album on multiple occasions. All of these strategies combined played a role in getting The Life of Pablo to the top of the charts, making it Kanye’s 7th album to hit number one on the Billboard 200 charts.

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