Spotify has over 550 million active listeners, and artists like Taylor Swift and Drake hover around 100 million monthly for themselves, but what else is out there, waiting to be discovered?
Here are three songs by three artists with under 50,000 active listeners that you should check out!
- Artist: Blake Shimoda/Song: Sick Forever
- For only garnishing 5000 monthly listeners, Blake Shimoda already has a complete, fleshed-out sound. Not unlike Capitol Kings or 21 Pilots, Shimoda gives us a somber yet energetic tone in songs like ‘Sick Forever’.
- Artist: Skip Waiters/Song: Therapy’
- Next up is Skip Waiters bringing 11,000 listeners smooth R&B and seriously well-structured lyrics that perfectly compliment an end of the day wind down session.
- Artist: Tessa Rae/Song: Someone I Know
- At 30,000 monthly listeners, Tessa Rae continues this edition’s low-key theme, while still managing to keep us bobbing our feet. ‘Someone I Know’ is an accessible acoustic beat with extra lyrics by Khary, a talented lyricist and spoken word artist.
Of course the fun of finding gems in the music scene is sharing your findings with someone, so if you know of a local or underviewed artist, let the Thunderword know at tword@highline.edu and you may see them on our next installment of Three songs/Three artists!