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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, 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 and/or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings.

Earlier charts for emerging artists

Heatseekers charts (1991–present)

Main article: Heatseekers charts

Billboard has began highlighting the performances of new and developing music artists since 1991 with the creation of the Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts. Artists such as Billie Eilish topped the Heatseekers Albums with her debut EP Don't Smile at Me (2017) and later topped the US main album chart of the Billboard 200 with her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). Primus became the first Heatseekers act to reach the top ten of the Billboard 200.

Next Big Sound (2010–2021)

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. It lists the fastest-accelerating artists during of the week, across all major social music sites, statistically predicted to achieve future success. 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. The chart became permanently defunct as Pandora shut down Next Big Sound platform on November 1, 2021.

One of those is the Next Big Sound Chart, powered by the Pandora-owned data analytics company Next Big Sound. The chart aims to predict the 20 artists who are most likely to make their debut on the Billboard 200 chart within the next year, all based on a patented algorithm that looks at artists’ growth on social media and streaming over the past 90 days.

Uncharted (2011–2014)

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. 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. The top-performing Uncharted artists of the year were Traphik (2011) and DJ Bl3nd (2012 and 2013). 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.

Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists (2014–2017)

Main article: Billboard Twitter Real-Time

The Emerging Artists was one of four Twitter charts launched by Billboard.

Revised methodology (2017–present)

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 Billboard Hot 100, 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.

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 Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Latin Songs) and/or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings (including counterpart charts Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Latin Albums)".

Chart achievements

Most weeks at number one

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
24	NLE Choppa	August 3, 2019
14	Lauv	June 9, 2018
12	City Girls	April 6

Number-one artists on the Artist 100

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
Lil Baby	May 26, 2018	March 14, 2020	94 weeks
Blackpink	June 30, 2018	October 17, 2020	120 weeks
Billie Eilish	August 4, 2018	April 13, 2019	36 weeks
Tomorrow X Together	March 16, 2019	February 11, 2023	204 weeks
ATEEZ	September 25, 2021	November 30, 2024	166 weeks
Jelly Roll	August 20, 2022	October 26, 2024	114 weeks
Zach Bryan	May 7, 2022	September 9, 2023	70 weeks
Jimin	April 1, 2023	April 8, 2023	1 week
Chappell Roan	May 18, 2024	October 5, 2024	20 weeks

Award-winning new artists

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)
Juice Wrld	May 26, 2018	3	—	Won (2019)
Billie Eilish	August 4, 2018	1	Won (2020)	Won (2020)
Megan Thee Stallion	May 18, 2019	6	Won (2021)	—
Pop Smoke	January 11, 2020	16	—	Won
Olivia Rodrigo	January 18, 2020	11	Won (2022)	Won (2022)
Zach Bryan	May 7, 2022	1	—	Won (2023)
Victoria Monét	February 17, 2024	1	Won (2024)	—
Chappell Roan	May 18, 2024	1	Pending	Won (2024)

External links

• Current listing of the Emerging Artists chart