New Signings & Rising Stars

NEW SIGNINGS & NEW MUSIC

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Each month, ’s partner agencies help us to compile a playlist of new music, much of it released by the new signings to their rosters. Among the tracks on November’s playlist are submissions from ATC Live, ITB, Mother Artists, Paradigm and UTA.

FALLY IPUPA (CD)

AGENT Carlos Abreu

UTA

TV GIRL (US)

AGENT Guillaume Brevers

Hometown Talent B uilding a reputation around his ability to transcend genres and rise above African borders, Congolese musical icon Fally Ipupa last year released Tokooos II, which saw him combine R&B and trap beats with more traditional sounds like soukous and ndombolo from the nation of his birth.

Tokooos II marked the follow-up to 2017’s Tokooos, an acclaimed LP that became gold-certified in France and led to tours around the world, from stadiums all over Africa to sold-out arenas in Paris and the United States. He also released double-album Control in 2018, a 31-track project that African music platform Afropop described as a “return to his classic rumba and ndombolo sound, aimed directly at the Congolese market.”

Amassing 800 million streams across his back catalogue, Fally Ipupa started out with soukous band Quartier Latin International before launching a massively successful solo career, winning ‘Best Francophone Artist’ and ‘Best Video’ (for single Sexy Dance) at the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards.

On the surface, TV Girl is a sunny, throwback splash of 60s French pop and southern California soul. Yet, under that shiny veneer lays a dark heart, beating with sharp wit and cynical alienation, and the music is all the more alluring for it.

TV Girl, composed of Brad Petering, Jason Wyman, and Wyatt Harmon, was formed in 2010 as an outlet to blend the love of Spector-esque, girl-group pop with an emerging interest in hip-hop. In 2014, TV Girl unveiled their first full-length, the critically acclaimed French Exit. The album keeps true to the TV Girl charm with a bevy of electronic samplings infused throughout light and airy guitars, whirring organs, and ethereal vocals. However, this record is not all summer nostalgia, and there are plenty of times where French Exit reads like disaffected fiction. The moody characters in these songs are fuelled by revenge as often as love, underpinned by desperation and a deep yearning to connect. The band takes self-identity and ponders it alongside themes of sexuality, isolation, and social status. To date they’ve released three albums: French Exit, Who Really Cares, and Death of a Party Girl.

ARTIST LISTINGS

A-Wall (US) Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent

Anchorsong (JP) Andy Bell (UK) Darren James-Thomas, FMLY Agency Rob McGee, FMLY Agency

Benson Boone (US) Beth McCarthy (UK)

James Whitting & Ryan Penty, Paradigm Sol Parker & James Whitting, Paradigm Billy Strings (US) Olly Hodgson, Paradigm Carwash (US) Guillaume Brevers & Joren Heuvels, Hometown Talent Circe (UK) Alice Hogg, ATC Live Cold War Kids (JP) Darren James-Thomas, FMLY Agency Coloray (NL) Tom Manley, ATC Live DJ Voices (US) Peter Beer, FMLY Agency Don’t Problem (UK) Rob Gibbs, Progressive Artists Donae’o (UK) Sam Gill, Earth Agency Dream Nails (UK) Graham Clews, ATC Live Elaine (US) Ari Bernstein, ICM Partners Emeline (US) James Whitting & Anna Bewers, Paradigm Etta Marcus (UK) Alex Hardee & Anna Bewers, Paradigm Fally Ipupa (CD) Carlos Abreu, UTA Goodboys (UK) Nick Matthews, Paradigm Hater (SE) Rob Gibbs, Progressive Artists J Wax (UK) Emile Martin, FMLY Agency Joe Unknown (UK) Alex Hardee & Tom Taaffe, Paradigm Karenn (UK) Jim O’Regan, Paradigm KEG (UK) Rob Challice, Paradigm

HOTTEST NEW ACTS

OCTOBER 2021

THIS MONTH LAST MONTH ARTIST

1 6 CKAY (NG) 2 - NARDO WICK (US) 3 22 WET LEG (UK) 4 19 ELLIE DIXON (UK) 5 5 YEAT (US) 6 - MADDS BUCKLEY (US) 7 - MIKE DIMES (US) 8 - GRENTPEREZ (AU) 9 - LEITH ROSS (CA) 10 17 EKKSTACY (US) 11 - LYN LAPID (US) 12 - JADE LEMAC (CA) 13 9 JVKE (US) 14 - SIOUXXIE (US) 15 31 JACK KAYS (US)

PREDICTIONS FOR NOVEMBER 2021

XXKATUSJINSUX (US), HOTBOY WES (US), GUCCI DASSY (AU), GAYLE (US), NALA SINEPHRO (UK) Artists not in the current top 15, but growing quickly KennyHoopla (US) KiD RAiN (UK) Kidä (XK/AL) Magdalena Bay (US) Marina Trench (FR) Micromoon (UK) MIKE (US) mustbejohn (UK) Nikitch & Kuna Maze (FR/BE) Orions Belte (NO) Phem (US) RinRin (AU) Samuel Jack (UK) SG Lewis (UK) Silhouettes Project (UK) Skillibeng (JA) Sophie Faith (UK) The Royston Club (UK) The Velveteers (US) Tommy Lefroy (UK/US) TV Girl (US)

James Whitting, Paradigm Sol Parker, Paradigm Sam Gill, Earth Agency David Exley, Paradigm Alasdair Howie, FMLY Agency Felipe Mina Calvo, ATC Live Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Sinan Ors, ATC Live Andre Marmot, Earth Agency Paul Buck, Paradigm Alex Hardee, Paradigm Geoff Meall, Paradigm Alex Hardee, Paradigm Steve Nickolls & James Osgood, UTA Marlon Burton, ATC Live Nick Matthews, Paradigm Marlon Burton, ATC Live Geoff Meall, Paradigm Anna Bewers, Paradigm Olly Hodgson, Paradigm Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Varg (SE) Lucy Atkinson, Earth Agency Water From Your Eyes (US) Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Wesley Gonzalez (UK) Rob Gibbs, Progressive Artists