Rising on Substack this week: Music

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Patti Smith

398k followers · #4 Music Bestsellers

+22 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 88 in all

47 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ted Gioia

381k followers · #1 Music Bestsellers

+17 in 30 days 105 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Joel Gouveia

18k followers · #46 Music Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days 52 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

POW MAG

6.8k followers · #21 Music Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 50 in all

14 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Lewis Porter

7.3k followers · #39 Music Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 55 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Rabbit Room

67k followers

+5 in 30 days 53 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kimbra

26k followers · #98 Music Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 53 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Mikal Gilmore

3.5k followers · #43 Music Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 51 in all

12 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Michael Daniels

2.4k followers · #70 Music Rising

+5 in 30 days 25 in all

10 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Carrie Newcomer

33k followers · #7 Music Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 52 in all

5 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

YAMS Magazine

8.8k followers

+4 in 30 days 50 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

brittany spanos

4.2k followers · #67 Music Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 50 in all

7 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live.