The Castellows, Jordana, HOL! & More

Billboard has greater than 200 totally different weekly charts, encompassing quite a few genres and codecs.

Whereas established artists usually compete for a spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart and Billboard 200 albums rating, which monitor the most well-liked songs and albums of the week, respectively, up-and-coming abilities sometimes begin off on genre-specific lists.

Right here’s a have a look at 10 titles by artists who seem on surveys for the primary time on the Feb. 24-dated charts.

The Castellows

The siblings are formally Billboard-charting artists for the primary time, because of their debut seven-track EP, A Little Goes a Lengthy Manner. The set, launched Feb. 9 by way of Henry-Dixon Line/Warner Data/Warner Music Nashville/WMN, debuts at No. 48 on the Prime Present Album Gross sales chart with 2,000 copies offered within the U.S. in its opening week (via Feb. 15), based on Luminate. The group additionally enters at No. 28 on the Rising Artists chart.

The Castellows are comprised of sisters Ellie (lead guitar), Lily (vocals), and Powell Balkcom (banjo), who hail from Georgetown, Ga., and at the moment are primarily based in Nashville. The group signed with Warner Music Nashville and Warner Data in October, together with Make Wake Artists for administration and WME for world illustration. “From the second we met The Castellows, we knew they have been the actual deal,” Warner Data’ co-chairman/CEO, Aaron Bay-Schuck stated in a press launch. “Not solely was their expertise and star energy instantly obvious, however they have been additionally unapologetically themselves. The character that Ellie, Lily and Powell show with their social posts and the tales they inform with their music are according to who they’re in actual life, and it’s this authenticity together with their willpower and drive to be actually nice that can make them an unstoppable pressure.”

The trio is presently on the highway on a string of tour dates that runs via June. The act can also be slated to carry out at a number of upcoming festivals, together with Tortuga Music Competition, Boston Calling, Below the Massive Sky and Bourbon & Past. Final month, CMT featured the group in its eleventh annual Subsequent Ladies of Nation franchise.

Jordana

The singer-songwriter (full identify Jordana Nye) debuts on Billboard’s charts because of her almost three-year-old album with TV Woman, Summer season’s Over. Launched in October 2021 on Grand Jury Music, the seven-track set debuts at No. 2 on the Tastemakers Albums chart (which ranks the week’s top-selling albums at impartial and small chain file shops). The album’s newest good points will be attributed to a brand new vinyl variants launched, one being a Tough Commerce unique vinyl urgent of the album, launched Feb. 9. The set’s commonplace black vinyl urgent will even be launched April 5.

Along with releasing Summer season’s Over with the group, the bedroom-pop musician has additionally served as a touring act with the band, performing bass and backing vocals. Individually, Jordana has launched three solo LPs in her profession: Classical Notions of Happiness (which she self-recorded and self-released in 2019), One thing to Say to You (2020) and Face the Wall (2022). Her most up-to-date launch is a collaboration with Yot Membership, “Secure Home,” launched in September.

HOL!

The French DJ nets his first profession Billboard chart hit because of his team-up with Marshmello, “Motion.” The tune, launched Feb. 9 on Joytime Collective, debuts at No. 30 on the Scorching Dance/Digital Songs chart with 719,000 U.S. streams earned in its opening week.

HOL! has been releasing music on streaming companies since 2020. Whereas he’s already a well-recognized face in France, he broke via within the U.S. along with his viral 2022 dubstep monitor “Nation Riddim,” which Fred Once more.., 4 Tet and Skrillex performed throughout their set at Coachella final yr. The tune combines riddim components with basic nation sounds — a style hardly ever seen within the dance/dubstep neighborhood. HOL! launched his debut full-length album, Black Gap Ultimate Chapter, in 2021.

TWS: 24/7:WITH:US

The South Korean boy band arrived on Billboard’s charts for the primary time final week (charts dated Feb. 17), because of its debut EP TWS: Glowing Blue. Launched Jan. 22 on Pledis Leisure/Geffen/IGA, the five-track venture debuted at No. 6 on World Albums and No. 8 on Heatseekers Albums (5,000 items) and No. 10 on Prime Present Album Gross sales and No. 16 on Prime Album Gross sales (4,000 albums offered). The set ranks on all 4 charts for a second consecutive week at, respectively, Nos. 11, 17, 24 and 36.

The act additionally debuted at No. 2 on the Feb. 17-dated Rising Artists chart and ranks at No. 9 on the most recent listing. TWS: 24/7:WITH:US includes members Dohoon, Hanjin, Jihoon, Kyungmin, Shinyu and Youngjae.

Wyatt Ellis

The 14-year-old bluegrass artist scored his first profession Billboard chart entry because of his debut album Completely satisfied Valley. The 12-track set, launched Feb. 2 on Knee Excessive Data, debuted at No. 5 on the Feb. 17-dated Bluegrass Albums chart, and ranks at No. 6 on the most recent listing.

Ellis, from Maryville, Tenn., is a self-taught mandolin participant who has already cemented himself as one among bluegrass’ greatest up-and-comers. He’s shared the stage with Dierks Bentley, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, amongst others, and made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry in November. On the brand new album, Ellis collaborated with a number of bluegrass mainstays, together with Mike Compton, Sierra Hull, Bobby Osborne and Marty Stuart.

Maleek Berry

The Nigerian singer-songwriter/producer reaches Billboard’s lists for the primary time as a recording artist because of his solo monitor “Kontrol.” The tune, launched in Might 2016, debuts at No. 49 on the most recent Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, powered by AfroNation. TikTok has been a contributing issue to the tune’s rising profile. A portion of the tune’s audio has soundtracked over 160,000 clips on the platform so far.

Berry (full identify Okunola Abdul Maleek Anu-Oluwapo Shoyebi) has been releasing music for greater than a decade. In 2016, he dropped his debut EP Final Daze of Summer season (which features a model of “Kontrol”) and adopted it up along with his First Daze of Winter EP in 2018. In 2020, he launched his debut full-length Isolation Room, which features a collaboration with the distinguished Afrobeats singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage (“Steadiness”). He has additionally collaborated with Adekunle Gold, GoldLink, Raye, Rudimental, Wizkid and Ycee. Outdoors of his work as a recording artist, he’s additionally an in-demand producer within the Afrobeats area, having produced songs for a lot of artists, together with Wande Coal, Davido and Wizkid.

Daniel Allan & Lyrah

Each artists arrive on Billboard’s charts for the primary time with their collaboration “I Simply Want.” Launched in August 2023 on Household Affair, the tune debuted at No. 37 on the Feb. 17-dated Dance/Combine Present Airplay chart and rises to No. 34 on the most recent listing (up 8% in performs).

Allan has been releasing music since 2019, with three studio LPs to his identify since then: Glass Home (launched in 2022), Standards with Reo Cragun (Might 2023) and Duality (November 2023). Allan was one of many first breakout musical abilities within the Web3 area in 2022. He offered a set of 1,000 music NFTs, named Glass Home, in lower than 24 hours. “It was some of the emotional moments I’ve had,” he instructed Billboard on the time. “It was the very last thing I noticed coming, genuinely.” He has three headlining reveals on the calendar, all inside the subsequent month, in Denver, Los Angeles and New York Metropolis’s Brooklyn.

As for Lyrah, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter additionally reaches Billboard’s charts for the primary time. She has launched greater than a dozen songs on streaming companies, all since 2018, together with two EPs: Chemical substances in 2019 and Drain My Financial institution Account in June 2023. In December 2022, her tune “Taken (Autograf Remix)” was featured within the HBO collection The Intercourse Lives of School Ladies.

Z3ELLA

The DJ duo lands its first profession Billboard chart hit as “Why Ought to I?” debuts at No. 31 on Dance/Combine Present Airplay (up 80% in spins). Earlier than that, the duo launched six different songs on streaming companies, together with collaborations with Glass Petals, Koastle, Klo, Lash, Mondry and Piques. Z3ELLA includes Julia Seeley and Kiana Tebyani.

Angelina Mango

The Italian singer-songwriter, from Maratea, Basilicata, achieves her first Billboard chart hit with “La Noia.” Launched Feb. 7 on Warner Music Italy, the tune (which interprets to “The Boredom” in English) debuts at No. 51 on the Billboard World Excl. U.S. chart and No. 110 on the Billboard World 200 with 18.3 million streams.

The tune was Mango’s profitable entry within the 74th annual Sanremo Music Competition, which concluded Feb. 10. As Mango received, she’s now set to symbolize Italy within the Eurovison Track Contest in Malmö, Sweden. Since Italy is a member of the “Massive 5” (together with France, Germany, Spain and the U.Okay.), Mango is mechanically certified to compete within the finals. Mango is the primary feminine artist to win Sanremo in 10 years. “I’ll be trustworthy, I didn’t anticipate something of what occurred,” Mango stated in a press convention on Feb. 11, after the finals. “I used to be in a position to dwell each second with out an excessive amount of stress. I obtained a variety of power from folks and I had the perfect week of my life.”

Outdoors of “La Noia,” Mango has launched two solo EPs: Monolocale in 2020 and Voglia di vivere in Might 2023.

Geolier

The Italian rapper, from Naples, reaches Billboard’s charts for the primary time along with his worldwide hit “I P’ Me, Tu P’ Te.” The title interprets to “Me for Myself, You for Your self.” Launched Feb. 7 on Warner Music Italy, the tune debuts at No. 33 on the World Excl. U.S. chart and No. 91 on the World 200 with 23.1 million streams worldwide.

Geolier competed within the 2024 Sanremo Music Competition, performing “I P’ Me, Tu P’ Te,” and in the end positioned second behind Angelina Mango.

Geolier has launched quite a few songs on streaming companies, all since 2018, together with two full-length albums: Emanuele in 2019 and Il coraggio dei bambini in January 2023. He has additionally collaborated with many different Italian rappers, together with Sfera Ebbasta, Guè, Lazza and Marracash.