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The other artists are appearing for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard&#8217;s Emerging Artists chart ranks the top artists who have yet to score major hits on the key Billboard album or song charts.  Like the Artist 100, it accounts for album sales, song consumption and social media activity.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the positions are primarily attributable to sales of the aforementioned artists&#8217; semifinal recordings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Voice&#8221; has ample representation on this week&#8217;s Emerging Artists chart.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[11852,11832,11922,210,11833,11875,177],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Voice&#039;s Kirk Jay, Chevel Shepherd, Reagan Strange, More Appear On Latest Billboard Emerging Artists Chart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Five semifinalists from this season of &quot;The Voice&quot; 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