Orange County alt-pop, aka ItsLuxCity. Gold-certified for “NUMB” and founder of The Ring by Lux.
LA dark-R&B and alt-pop behind RUNRUNRUN, releasing through his MADKID Records.
Platinum-selling songwriter turned artist. Dutch Melrose's right hand and 2026 co-headliner.
Brooklyn dark pop. Babydoll went Gold by accident; the career stuck on purpose.
Wrote for Selena Gomez in the shadows; now the dark-pop artist the scene watches.
Annapolis jazz kid turned dark-pop auteur. 3.5 billion streams, every video self-directed.
Three hours to make, two weeks as the most-streamed song on earth. Darkwave's flagship.
100M streams from a Swiss bedroom, no label, and a cancer-research thesis on the side.
Emo's lightning rod: vampire rock operas, the X Movement, and a mission against loneliness.
Grunge-gaze from the North Shore: sweet voice, morbid pen, signed on her own terms.
Boise trailer park to Mom+Pop: 99M streams and a grief opera called Lover of a Ghost.
Chappell Roan's labelmate-in-waiting since 2022. Blue hair, big feelings, Rodrigo's opener.
16M TikTok followers turned real catalog. Her tours launched Ari Abdul and Isabel LaRosa.
The godfathers: Sweater Weather, 4.7 billion streams, and the B&W blueprint for dark pop.
Sang into an Italian well, went viral, stayed independent for a decade, then went hyperpop.
The hook machine: 16 monthly age tapes, 273M streams, Marin County sunshine with an 808.
The pastor's son from Cranston who took Golden Hour to No. 10 on the Hot 100 without ever signing to a major.
Toronto's self-taught dark-pop auteur, whose slow-burn TikTok hit Let the World Burn turned a JUNO nomination into a 2026 headline tour.
The Neighbourhood's frontman runs a rainbow-coded solo world of his own: Columbia, then Atlantic, then the Jesse® rebrand.
El Paso-raised alt-pop artist behind "she calls me daddy" and the horror-concept album And You Who Drowned in the Grief of a Golden Thing.
Dark-pop hitmaker behind "Champagne & Sunshine" who became the founder and CEO of Rebellion Records.
Toronto's viral-to-platinum darkwave export. "Spit in My Face!" turned a bedroom freestyle into a Billboard entry and a scene alongside Artemas.
From OTG Landon to a Machine Gun Kelly feature to Big Loud Rock: the solo career built alongside a famous last name.
The RIAA-Gold 'Overwhelmed' singer turned concept-album auteur, from Jersey bartender to Atlantic Records mainstay.
TikTok-to-rockstar breakout who became Travis Barker's first DTA Records signing and a face of the 2020s pop-punk revival.
Vancouver post-punk star behind 'i walk this earth all by myself,' the GQ-anointed King of Sad Punk who supported blink-182 and rebuilt his sound on Forever.
Kars-to-LA singer-songwriter behind Sleepyhead, a Position Music signee, Demi Lovato's outside co-writer, and her husband as of 2025.
TikTok-discovered indie-pop singer-songwriter behind 'More Than Friends,' now touring arenas with LANY after his 2025 debut album shut up and love me.
Behind-the-scenes songwriter and topliner: TXT's "Dance With You," Cassadee Pope's Hereditary, and a multi-year Dutch Melrose co-writing partnership.
Toronto-born dark-pop singer-songwriter and Disney Music Group staff writer, best known for "MINE" and her long creative partnership with Chris Grey.
Homeschool-to-Hollywood alt-pop singer-songwriter behind 'next door' and 'see through,' from Capitol Records to independence to Republic Records.
The Connecticut-raised voice behind "Tonight": viral TikTok breakout turned Atlantic Records nu-metal revivalist, with EPs Skin to Skin and Surrender and features alongside Architects and I Prevail.
Toronto's self-styled manifestation-pop artist, from viral hit 'What You Need' to a MADKID Records collaboration with Dutch Melrose.
The Dirty Hit signee behind "Coffee" and "Death Bed," now a Rick Rubin collaborator, Eras Tour opener, and first-time UK No. 1 album artist heading into her first arena tour.
Chicago indie-rock band led by Lili Trifilio, whose 2018 song 'Prom Queen' became a defining TikTok anthem and whose catalog now includes two platinum singles and three studio albums.
LA "Renegade-Pop" trio signed to Mark Hoppus's Verswire, from Warped Tour to opening for Machine Gun Kelly and Wiz Khalifa.
Former Attack Attack! member turned solo genre-scrambler. Columbia Records artist behind American Motor Sports and Kinda Hard.
The Cairns trio behind billion-stream single "Swim" and the 2024 breakout Lost in Heaven, alt-R&B built for a decade of streaming and sold-out arenas.
Connecticut-born singer-songwriter who left Amherst mid-degree for a tour slot and built a 3.1-billion-stream catalog, including three solo LPs and the brent trilogy with Jeremy Zucker.
The TikTok-born voice behind "Backyard Boy" who grew into a Maroon 5 tour opener and 10K Projects/Atlantic artist.
From a 2017 bedroom-webcam video to a 2025 Grammy nomination: the singer-songwriter behind Immunity, Sling and Charm.
The credit name behind the 2024 dance single HUNDO, alternately billed as Hot Intent, featuring Dutch Melrose. No independent artist profile has been documented.
From a lamp-taped bedroom mic in Georgetown, Texas, to four straight top-ten Billboard albums and a Max Martin-produced synth-pop pivot.
Carmel and Ventura-raised pop singer-songwriter whose 2020 TikTok hit "Dangerous" led to a Face profile, the album Blossom Hill, and a 2022 Columbia-distributed duet with Nicky Youre.
The 'Problems' breakout who left Capitol Records to build HOLLYWOOD FOREVER on her own terms, corpse-paint, sold-out headline tours, and all.
The Brooklyn singer-songwriter behind Gold-certified 'Ode to a Conversation Stuck in Your Throat' and a decade-long musical partnership with Maggie Rogers.
The voice behind "Numb Little Bug," a Platinum, Hot 100 single that turned a pandemic-era TikTok following into a Republic Records career.
Confessional whisperpop singer-songwriter behind Good Riddance, The Secret of Us and the breakout hit That's So True, built on a three-album partnership with producer Aaron Dessner.
MADKID Records artist and former Thoreau, HARRY WAS HERE blends emo and alt-pop across a decade-spanning catalog with Dutch Melrose and benny mayne.
Former Playyard singer-producer whose noir-pop solo run led to a Giant Music deal and a slot supporting Artemas's full 38-date LOVERCORE world tour.
Two dance-pop singles, one Dutch Melrose feature, and no confirmed label, bio, or social presence found anywhere as of July 2026.
Self-taught bedroom producer turned RCA artist and GLAAD Media Award nominee, from pirated FL Studio to Beep Beep Repeat.
Independent Brooklyn artist whose "tower of memories" turned a TikTok gaming-nostalgia trend into a global viral moment.
The low-profile producer behind Bazzi's biggest hits, Chelsea Cutler's Stellaria, and Artemas's viral "i like the way you kiss me."
Tasmanian singer who turned a viral Paparazzi cover into a Columbia Records deal, a Jonathan Davis feature and a debut Europe/UK headline tour.
TikTok-to-Elektra pop artist turned independent label boss behind the sold-out A Hometown Odyssey.
The LA darkwave producer whose 2015 bedroom cover of The Cure went viral six years later and became a platinum record.
The Marías frontwoman turned Not for Radio solo artist, Grammy-nominated a decade into her career on the strength of "No One Noticed."
TikTok-viral, Columbia-educated singer-songwriter whose 2024 debut Sugar Water made 'cosmic pop' a genre of its own.
The drivers license phenomenon: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter behind SOUR and GUTS, built almost entirely on her partnership with producer Dan Nigro.
The Neighbourhood's founding drummer who left in 2014 to become Olivver the Kid, an indie singer-songwriter with a parallel career writing hit sync music.
LA singer-songwriter behind how u stop hating urself and pheelings pt. 1, and a prolific outside writer for Machine Gun Kelly and jxdn.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter behind Pink Pony Club and Good Luck, Babe!, from Atlantic drop to Best New Artist.
App-discovered singer-songwriter behind DEATHWISH and Cherry Picking who toured with YUNGBLUD before going independent.
The Mission, B.C. artist behind the billion-stream TikTok phenomenon "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)," and one of lo-fi hip-hop's defining voices.
Singaporean pop-punk artist and Dutch Melrose's touring guitarist, known for ATOM BOMB and MIRROR MIRROR.
Broadway's Regina George turned pop chart-topper: Snow Angel, Bite Me, and her first arena tour.
TikTok's open-verse phenomenon turned RIAA Gold artist, from a secret Orange County songwriter to a full debut album.
San Diego-to-LA singer, songwriter and producer behind "EAT SPIT!" and K-pop credits for CORTIS and TXT.
Lower East Side singer-songwriter behind "Back to Friends" and I Barely Know Her, a Grammy-nominated breakout who went from bedroom demos to sold-out arenas in under two years.
Model and actress turned singer-songwriter whose 2017 song "Good Looking" went Platinum after a 2022 TikTok revival; opened Taylor Swift's Eras Tour at Wembley and signed to Island Records for 2026's Loveland.
From a Verizon Wireless counter to Arista Records: the TikTok dare that became "A-O-K."
Artemas's jazz-trained co-writer and producer behind "I Like the Way You Kiss Me" and BTS's "Like Animals."
The bodega cashier whose SoundCloud rant became a No. 1 Alternative Airplay hit, now independent and touring sober behind 477 Records.
Jazz-school dropout turned indie breakout. "Punching Bag," "23" and a Dirty Hit run that took her onto arena stages with The 1975.
The producers, writers and builders behind the scene.
LA producer and FL Studio tutor who turned dubstep experiments into genre-blending alt-pop and trap-pop production work.
The under-credited tastemaker who found Em Beihold at 1,000 followers and Chappell Roan before Pink Pony Club, then watched the labels rewrite the discovery story.
Two-time Grammy Songwriter of the Year behind Espresso, Adore You and APT. Co-writer on Isabel LaRosa's Raven and Ella Boh's My Mind & Me.
New York model and singer known for a KALTBLUT editorial and her lead role in the 2022 video for "Dangerous State of Mind."
Grammy-winning producer behind SOUR, GUTS and Pink Pony Club, and founder of Amusement Records, now a UMG label venture.
Jazz guitarist turned pop producer whose sole production credit became a certified Gold breakout hit.
Pop's understated engine room: Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez, Sabrina Carpenter, and Isabel LaRosa's Home, all built on the same OCD obsession with un-identifiable sounds.
The producer-brother behind Isabel LaRosa's entire catalog and Ari Abdul's "BABYDOLL."
Blink-182's drummer and the producer behind pop-punk's 2020s revival, founder of DTA Records and survivor of the 2008 plane crash that reshaped his life.
Grammy-winning producer behind STAY, Unholy and About Damn Time. Benny Blanco's former intern turned hitmaker with Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and The Kid Laroi.
Blackbird Academy-trained producer and multi-instrumentalist behind Ally Nicholas's rise, from Capitol Records setup coordinator to co-writer on her debut EP.
Underground dark-pop producer behind gonedark's catalog, the fukkfaith x elyrae singles, and a co-production credit on Christian Gates's BLEED.
Sir Sly co-founder turned in-demand pop producer, from Imagine Dragons and Benson Boone to the new duo project 2XT.
Songwriter behind Artemas's "i like the way you kiss me" and Myles Smith's "Stargazing," with a Grammy-winning co-write on John Legend's Bigger Love.
Berklee-trained songwriter-producer behind One Direction, Maroon 5's Red Pill Blues, and Sabrina Carpenter's Grammy-winning Short n' Sweet and Man's Best Friend.
Self-taught frontman-producer of The Wrecks, and an outside topline writer for artists from Hoodie Allen to Atreyu to Jutes.
The guitarist-producer behind "Mood," "Stay," "MONTERO," "Unholy" and "APT." and Blake Slatkin's longtime creative partner.
Grammy-winning LA producer behind Laufey's 'Slow Down' and Myles Smith's catalogue; co-produced Christian Gates's 'SHREDS.'
The confirmed, third-listed producer on TOXIC, credited alongside Grant Sayler and Elation, with no public identity beyond the credit.
LA production duo of Rob Cohen and Blake Mares, Westlake-trained engineers with credits on Feel It Still, There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back and Cage the Elephant's Grammy-winning Social Cues.
Producer behind the Kurffew project, tracing a path from YouTube type beats to a Yxngxr1 placement and a growing catalog of self-released emo-pop singles.
GRAMMY-nominated producer of Gallant's Ology, HEALTH's industrial pivot, and Wisp's shoegaze revival.