These 'Unknown' Aussie Artists Have Over 1 Million Monthly Listeners On Spotify

There’s something happening on Spotify – Australian artists you’ve never heard of are pulling gigantic streaming numbers despite not charting or being everywhere you look.

While it’s easy to get sucked into negativity surrounding the lack of Australian music on our own charts, the ARIA Charts, perhaps it’s time to celebrate our artists’ success stories rather than repeat the same old complaints.

The Music has combed through Spotify and found a number of Australian artists who are absolutely slaying on the streaming giant’s platform and who you should know.

Clinton Kane

Genre: singer/songwriter influenced pop/indie

How many monthly listeners

5,400,262

Stats on most successful songs

I GUESS I’M IN LOVE – 387,688,322

CHICKEN TENDIES – 188,100,135

I don’t want to watch the world end with someone else – 127,476,887

Drown (by Martin Garrix featuring Clinton Kane) – 212,582,425

DANCING ALL ALONE – 18,104,847

Tobiahs

Genre: EDM, pop

How many monthly listeners

670,248

Stats on most successful songs

Lifetime – 1,667,459

Sculpted – 11,494,316

Late Night – 7,626,849

Why Am I In Love – 1,105,946

Through To You – 5,469,191

DPR IAN

Genre: Indie/pop

How many monthly listeners

3,530,715

Stats on most successful songs

Don’t Go Insane – 28,933,888

No Blueberries – 78,499,638

So Beautiful – 70,475,081

So I Danced – 13,287,872

Peanut Butter & Tears – 15,406,984

Hannah Bahng

Genre: Indie/pop

How many monthly listeners

219,140

Stats on most popular songs

Perfect blues – 8,162,640

Oleander – 3,723,117

CYRIL

Genre: electronic pop

How many monthly listeners

2,486,845

Stats on most popular songs

Stumblin’ In – 13,453,943

Lucid Dreams – 398,415

Strong – 217,659

Boss – 248,896

Porn – 177,852

Vierre Cloud

Genre: pop/hyper-pop, electronic

How many monthly listeners

2,583,861

Stats on most popular songs

Moment – 343,628,197

Creation – 1,172,019

On My Mind – 169,677

Breathe – 550,280

April Leaves – 2,028,911

Timmies

Genre: modern R&B/pop

How many monthly listeners

1,801,361

Stats on most popular songs

Again – 121,974,185

Tell Me Why I’m Waiting – 200,658,880

Loosing Interest – 121,284,174

Ugly – 34,116,542

Soft Skin – 60,690,048

Daste

Genre: lo-fi/indie-pop

How many monthly listeners

1,460,779

Stats on most popular songs

Telephone (What’s Your Name) – 17,846,464

SOBER – 11,468,308

Same As It Ever Was – 5,758,839

Butterfly (so free) – 2,135,295

What If? – 3,290,665

Will K

Genre: electronic music, self-proclaimed “aussie producer boi”

How many monthly listeners

1,516,048

Stats on most popular songs

Sun Is Dark – 32,491,986

Flip Reset – 25,311,322

Chase The Sun (Will K Remix) – 11,407,736

OoooH – 5,146,928

Holding On – 7,246,377

Garrett Kato

Genre: folk/acoustic, singer/songwriter

How many monthly listeners

1,376,187

Stats on most popular songs

Never Alone – 5,970,710

I’ll Be Around – 28,366,479

Be – 23,478,349

With You – 16,710,773

Take It Slowly – 22,742,162

Two Another

Genre: indie/alternative R&B

How many monthly listeners

1,274,209

Stats on most popular songs

Keeping Me Under – 68,975,983

Coming Alive – 46,065,133

Hippies (feat. Two Another) – 13,407,852

Enter My Life – 6,686,075

Can’t Buy The Mood – Two Another Remix – 8,381,226

Toby Mai

Genre: indie/bedroom pop

How many monthly listeners

1,078,558

Stats on most popular songs

Nobody – 9,242,892

ANGEL – 7,383,263

All this time – 4,303,722

My Eye$ - 748,441

Cities – 2,429,883

Maybe it’s time to change the narrative. These artists are connecting to a global audience, and that should be celebrated. If you want to support Australian music further than streaming, buy the merch and tickets and talk about them like they’re your favourite artists on the planet.