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The Emerging Artists is a music chart released weekly by Billboard magazine listing the most popular developing music artists. The chart uses the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Billboard Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top ten entries on Billboard's "Hot" song genre charts or "Top" album genre rankings.

Prior to the chart creation, Billboard had published several charts tracking emerging artists such as the Heatseekers, the Next Big Sound, and the Uncharted. Billboard launched the Emerging Artists chart in June 2014, in partnership with Twitter. It initially compiled the most-shared songs by up-and-coming artists, ranked by the volume of shares on Twitter in the United States over a seven-day period. The chart was revamped using the same formula as the Billboard Artist 100 chart in September 2017.

Earlier charts for emerging artists

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Heatseekers charts (1991–2025)

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Main article: Heatseekers charts
Candy Dulfer was the first emerging artist to top the Heatseekers chart.[1]

Billboard began highlighting the performances of new and developing music artists since 1991 with the creation of the Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts. A number of artists who charted on the Heatseekers chart have achieved mainstream success, such as Toby Keith who topped the Heatseekers Albums with his self-titled debut album in 1993 and topped the US main album chart of the Billboard 200 for the first time with his seven studio album Unleashed in 2002.[2] Billie Eilish topped the Heatseekers Albums with her debut EP Don't Smile at Me (2017) and topped the Billboard 200 with her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019).[3]

Next Big Sound (2010–2021)

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See also: Next Big Sound

In 2010, Billboard collaborated with Next Big Sound, a New York–based company which provides analytics for online music, to create the Next Big Sound 25 chart.[4] It listed the fastest-accelerating artists of the week, across all major social music sites, statistically predicted to achieve future success. The chart aimed to predict artists who were most likely to make their debut on the Billboard 200 chart within the next year, all based on a patented algorithm that looked at artists' growth on social media and streaming over the previous 90 days.[5] As Pandora acquired Next Big Sound on May 19, 2015,[4] the chart was also published on Pandora website as the "Pandora Predictions" chart.[6] The first number-one artist on the chart was Victorious on December 18, 2010, and the final number-one artist was Yebba on October 2, 2021.[7][8] The chart became permanently defunct as Pandora shut down Next Big Sound platform on November 1, 2021.[9][10]

Uncharted (2011–2014)

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Uncharted was a chart compiled by Billboard listing the top new and developing artists who have yet to appear on a major Billboard chart, regardless of country of origin.[11][12][13] Ranking is based on a formula incorporating streamed plays, page views and fans according to MySpace, as well as sources tracked by online aggregator Next Big Sound, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, iLike and Wikipedia, among others. In order to appear on Uncharted, acts must be registered MySpace Music artists and have not appeared on specifically outlined Billboard charts.

The first number-one artist on the chart was Traphik on January 29, 2011, and the final number-one artist was Kygo on June 7, 2014.[14][15] The top-performing Uncharted artists of the year were Traphik (2011) and DJ Bl3nd (2012 and 2013).[16] DJ Bl3nd holds the record for the most weeks at number one on the Uncharted (62 weeks) and remained on the chart for a total of 103 weeks.[17]

Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists (2014–2017)

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Main article: Billboard Twitter Real-Time
K Camp was the first artist to top the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart.

The Emerging Artists was one of four Twitter charts launched by Billboard.[18] The chart listed the most-shared songs on Twitter in the United States by up-and-coming artists—determined by Twitter follower thresholds and Hot 100 charting history—ranked by the volume of shares over a seven-day period (Monday to Sunday).[19] Its first number one was K Camp's "Cut Her Off" on the issue dated June 7, 2014, and its final number-one before the chart revamp was Cheat Codes' "No Promises" on the issue dated August 26, 2017.[20]

Revised methodology (2017–present)

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Starting with Billboard charts dated September 2, 2017, a revamped Emerging Artists chart was modeled after the same formula as the Billboard Artist 100 chart which debuted in 2014 and captures the breakout artists not on that chart. It measures artist activity across Billboard's "most influential charts", including the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard 200 and the Social 50. And, unlike the original Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart, which ranked with song titles of the weekly most shared songs on Twitter by new artists, the new Emerging Artists chart ranks only by artist, without listing a song or album.[21]

The new chart "incorporates key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity". And the revised chart will "exclude artists that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top 10s on Billboard's "Hot" song genre charts that blend streaming, airplay and sales data (such as the Hot Country Songs, the Hot Rock Songs, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and the Hot Latin Songs) or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings (including counterpart charts the Top Country Albums, the Top Rock Albums, the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and the Top Latin Albums)". Portugal. The Man became the first number-one artist on the revamped Emerging Artists chart on the issue dated September 2, 2017.[21]

Achievements and milestones

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Most weeks at number one

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Jelly Roll spent the most weeks at number one on the Emerging Artists chart.
Top 10 artists with the most weeks at number one on the Emerging Artists
Total weeks
at No. 1 		Artist First week at No. 1 Ref.
28 Jelly Roll August 20, 2022 [22]
24 NLE Choppa August 3, 2019 [23]
14 Lauv June 9, 2018 [24]
12 City Girls April 6 [25]

Number-one artists on the Artist 100

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Dua Lipa reached the summit of the Artist 100 chart 191 weeks after first topping the Emerging Artists.

The following artists topped the Emerging Artists and eventually managed to score a mainstream success by topping the Billboard Artist 100 chart.

Artists topping the Emerging Artists and Artist 100 charts
Artist First week at No. 1
on the Emerging Artists 		First week at No. 1
on the Artist 100 		Timespan Ref.
Dua Lipa September 23, 2017 May 22, 2021 191 weeks [26][27]
Lil Baby May 26, 2018 March 14, 2020 94 weeks [28][29]
Blackpink June 30, 2018 October 17, 2020 120 weeks [30][31]
Billie Eilish August 4, 2018 April 13, 2019 36 weeks [32][33]
Tomorrow X Together March 16, 2019 February 11, 2023 204 weeks [34][35]
ATEEZ September 25, 2021 November 30, 2024 166 weeks [36][37]
Jelly Roll August 20, 2022 October 26, 2024 114 weeks [38][39]
Zach Bryan May 7, 2022 September 9, 2023 70 weeks [40][41]
Jimin April 1, 2023 April 8, 2023 1 week [42][43]
Chappell Roan May 18, 2024 October 5, 2024 20 weeks [44][45]

Award-winning new artists

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After topping the Emerging Artists in 2017, Billie Eilish won the New Artist category at both the Grammy Awards and the Billboard Awards in 2020.
Charting artists who later won the Grammy or the Billboard Music Award for New Artist category
Artist Emerging Artists
peak date 		Peak
position 		Grammy
Best New Artist 		Billboard
Top New Artist 		Ref.
Dua Lipa September 23, 2017 1 Won (2019) Nominated (2019) [46]
Juice Wrld May 26, 2018 3 — Won (2019) [47][48]
Billie Eilish August 4, 2018 1 Won (2020) Won (2020) [49]
Megan Thee Stallion May 18, 2019 6 Won (2021) — [50][51]
Pop Smoke January 11, 2020 16 — Won (2021) [52][53]
Olivia Rodrigo January 18, 2020 11 Won (2022) Won (2022) [49][54]
Zach Bryan May 7, 2022 1 — Won (2023) [49]
Victoria Monét February 17, 2024 1 Won (2024) — [55][56]
Chappell Roan May 18, 2024 1 Pending Won (2024) [49]

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