

New Orleans-based funk/soul/spoken-word group Tank & the Bangas debut at No. 1 on Emerging Artists, as their single “Act Up” rises 30-29, hitting a new peak, on the Billboard Hot 100. The rank of their second Hot 100 entry ties the peak of their first hit, “Twerk,” featuring Cardi B, in February. (The Artist 100 lists the most popular acts, overall, each week.) However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts 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 and/or consumption-based “Top” album genre rankings.Ĭity Girls log their sixth week at No.

The Emerging Artists chart ranks the most popular developing artists of the week, using the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and the Social 50. 10 on the Heatseekers list in October 2018), Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia. The group consists of Adrianne Lenker (whose debut solo set Abysskiss hit No. The band completed a UK and Ireland tour in March before a string of North American dates.Big Thief on New Album: 'I've Excavated More Into My Own Heart and Chest' “Part of the fun of Great Thief is how close they are and how telepathic they seem – this is a band who regularly improvise instrumental parts of their songs, picking up cues from others just by looking. lead lady Adrianne Lenker screams into the microphone like she’s fronting a metal band.” NME’s Rhian Daly wrote: “Those attending their Park Stage performance today (June 25) can expect a performance more mellow, folksy rather, what you get for all three. loud with a chorus it’s fun to watch it all unfold.”īig Thief returned to the UK last month to perform at Glastonbury 2022. Maybe it’s James Krivchenia’s banjo percussion, the galloping beat of ‘Certainty’, or how the four musicians sing out. “There’s a bit of a ‘hold on to your hat’ feel here, with players expecting each other for a possible surprise. Big Thief ended the short concert by treating the audience to ‘Happiness’, a track that premiered during the group’s 2020 European tour (via Setlist.FM).įilmed by Adam Gundersheimer and Vanessa Haddad, the latest video for “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” sees Big Thief performing in a cozy attic room in a Connecticut home.īob Boilen, host and creator of NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk’ said, “What we see in this ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’ is gameplay instead of the intensity I usually find in Big Thief on a big stage.
