bradluen

@bradluen · Semipop Life · Substack profile · Music

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bradluen has 2,093 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 38 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 7.

Followers read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 2,093; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 1.9K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 38; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 7
Bestsellers rank: not on a board

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow bradluen on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	2,093		1.9K+

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

38 publications recommend bradluen; 1 started in the last 30 days. bradluen recommends 7, and 7 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2022-06	1
2022-07	1
2022-09	2
2022-11	1
2022-12	1
2023-03	1
2023-04	3
2023-05	1
2023-11	1
2024-01	2
2024-03	1
2024-09	1
2024-10	1
2024-11	2
2024-12	2
2025-01	1
2025-05	3
2025-06	1
2025-08	1
2025-09	2
2025-12	1
2026-01	3
2026-04	1
2026-05	1
2026-06	1
2026-08	1
2026-10	1

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.