{"id":138422,"date":"2020-03-09T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=138422"},"modified":"2020-03-09T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T03:23:23","slug":"alaina-castillo-sb19-merci-mercy-more-confirmed-for-spotifys-radar-emerging-artists-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2020\/03\/09\/alaina-castillo-sb19-merci-mercy-more-confirmed-for-spotifys-radar-emerging-artists-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaina Castillo, SB19, Merci, Mercy, More Confirmed For Spotify&#8217;s RADAR Emerging Artists Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, Spotify has proven helpful in breaking new artists. Acts that have received even a slight boost from the platform, such as a key playlist placement, have immensely expanded their audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its new RADAR program, Spotify will formalize the process of breaking talented, emerging artists.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural RADAR class includes 36 artists from around the world. Each will receive special opportunities in their focus markets, such as playlist visibility, documentary content and &#8220;Spotify Singles&#8221; releases. They will also appear on the new On Our RADAR playlist, which seems poised for monthly refreshes (and also includes other up-and-coming songs and artists).<\/p>\n<p>Alaina Castillo will be the initial RADAR artist in the US. The announcement comes following the release of her &#8220;ocean waves,&#8221; which has a prominent position on the New Music Friday playlist. She will also be releasing Spotify Singles recordings: a new version of her own &#8220;i don&#8217;t think i love you anymore&#8221; and a cover of Andrea Bocelli&#8217;s &#8220;Besame Mucho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not limited to audio content, the Castillo push will include documentary features, music video exposure, and a COLORSxSTUDIOS show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so thankful to be able to share my music with more people,\u201d says Castillo. \u201cGo places. Meet new people. Release exciting things. RADAR takes this big dream and throws it into one amazing opportunity. I\u2019m also super excited to see how all my fans are going to react, because I feel super close to them and they\u2019ve been with me for so long and support me like nobody else could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other RADAR artists are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>UK: Young T + Bugsey<br \/>\nBrazil: Agnes Nunes<br \/>\nMexico: Silvana Estrada<br \/>\nArgentina: Romeo El Santo<br \/>\nColombia: Ela Minus<br \/>\nPanama: Boza<br \/>\nSpain: DORA, Aleesha, Maria Jose Llergo, Guitarricadelafuente, Paranoid 1966<br \/>\nAustralia: merci, mercy<br \/>\nFrance: Lous and the Yakuza, Yuzmv, Philippine, Herve<br \/>\nUAE &#038; Lebanon: Hollaphonic x Xriss<br \/>\nSouth Africa: Elaine<br \/>\nPhilippines: SB19, August Wahh<br \/>\nIndonesia: Mahen, Monica Karina<br \/>\nTaiwan: \u5f35\u82e5\u51e1RuoFan<br \/>\nAustria: AVEC, My Ugly Clementine<br \/>\nGermany: badm\u00f3mzjay<br \/>\nNetherlands: RIMON, Jeangu Macrooy<br \/>\nJapan (known locally as &#8220;Early Noise&#8221;): Fujii Kaze, Vaundy, Rina Sawayama<br \/>\nIndia: Mali, When Chai Met Toast, Taba Chake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The program will spotlight emerging artists from around the world.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138449,"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":[13424,13426,13425],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alaina Castillo, SB19, Merci, Mercy, More Confirmed For Spotify&#039;s RADAR Emerging Artists Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over the past few years, Spotify has proven helpful in breaking new artists. 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