TheEmerging Artists is amusic chart released weekly byBillboard magazine listing the most popular developingmusic artists. The chart uses the same formula as the all-encompassingBillboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multipleBillboard charts, including theBillboard Hot 100 and theBillboard 200. However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have notched a top 25 entry on either theBillboard Hot 100 orBillboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top ten entries onBillboard'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 theHeatseekers, the Next Big Sound, and the Uncharted.Billboard launched the Emerging Artists chart in June 2014, in partnership withTwitter. 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 theBillboard Artist 100 chart in September 2017.

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 asToby Keith who topped the Heatseekers Albums with hisself-titled debut album in 1993 and topped the US main album chart of theBillboard 200 for the first time with his seven studio albumUnleashed in 2002.^[2]Billie Eilish topped the Heatseekers Albums with her debut EPDon't Smile at Me (2017) and topped theBillboard 200 with her debut studio albumWhen We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019).^[3]

In 2010,Billboard collaborated withNext Big Sound, a New York–based company which providesanalytics 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 theBillboard 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] AsPandora 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 wasYebba 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 was a chart compiled byBillboard listing the top new and developing artists who have yet to appear on a majorBillboard chart, regardless of country of origin.^[11][12][13] Ranking is based on a formula incorporating streamed plays, page views and fans according toMySpace, as well as sources tracked by online aggregator Next Big Sound, includingYouTube,Facebook,Twitter,Last.fm,iLike andWikipedia, among others. In order to appear on Uncharted, acts must be registeredMySpace Music artists and have not appeared on specifically outlinedBillboard charts.

The first number-one artist on the chart wasTraphik on January 29, 2011, and the final number-one artist wasKygo 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]

The Emerging Artists was one of fourTwitter charts launched byBillboard.^[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 wasK Camp's "Cut Her Off" on the issue dated June 7, 2014, and its final number-one before the chart revamp wasCheat Codes' "No Promises" on the issue dated August 26, 2017.^[20]

Starting withBillboard charts dated September 2, 2017, a revamped Emerging Artists chart was modeled after the same formula as theBillboard Artist 100 chart which debuted in 2014 and captures the breakout artists not on that chart. It measures artist activity acrossBillboard's "most influential charts", including theBillboard Hot 100, theBillboard 200 and theSocial 50. And, unlike the originalBillboard 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 theHot Country Songs, theHot Rock Songs, theHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and theHot Latin Songs) or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings (including counterpart charts theTop Country Albums, theTop Rock Albums, theTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and theTop 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]

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

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