Underground Artist Index.

Four releases in one day, ten million listeners between them

On 21 August, fakemink, Feng and nate sib all released within hours of each other — two full albums and a single, from artists with 10.38 million combined monthly listeners.

Four records landed on 21 August, from artists with 10,380,234 combined monthly listeners. It is comfortably the largest single release day this scene has had in a month.

ArtistReleaseFormatMonthly listeners
fakeminkBye Byesingle8,095,332
FengSummer at Camp Lakepinealbum, 7 tracks1,660,889
nate sibRebornalbum, 10 tracks624,013
BabyJoso many oppssingle

Two of those are full-length albums, which makes the clustering odder. Singles colliding is ordinary — everyone targets Friday. Two albums from artists at this scale landing the same day is either coordination or nobody checking.

The wider picture, from the index: 48 releases across the tracked roster in the last 30 days. August 14 was nearly as busy, with six, including Team Werewolf's debut EP and Feng's Fake Friends — meaning Feng has put out an album and an EP inside eight days.

Underneath it

The same fortnight also carried releases from artists three orders of magnitude smaller — listenednow (833 monthly), msgs (598), scaleees (359), Noah Snod (906) — on the same playlists, in the same scene, with none of the attention. That gap is most of what this index exists to document.