Joshua Kosman

@joshuakosman · On a Pacific Aisle · Substack profile · Music

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Joshua Kosman has 4,820 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #63 on Substack's Music Bestsellers board. 27 publications recommend them, and they recommend 12.

Followers read 6 days ago · Boards read 2 h ago

Last read Nov 1, 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: 4,820; read Nov 1
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 3K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 27; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 12
Bestsellers rank: #63; Music

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. 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 Joshua Kosman on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Nov 1, 2026	4,820	+21	3K+
Oct 31, 2026	4,799		3K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Music Bestsellers	#63	#62	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Music Bestsellers	62	62	62	63	▼1

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

27 publications recommend Joshua Kosman. Joshua Kosman recommends 12, 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
2024-09	2
2024-10	2
2024-12	5
2025-01	3
2025-04	1
2025-06	1
2025-07	2
2025-09	1
2025-10	1
2025-11	1
2026-01	1
2026-03	2
2026-06	1
2026-07	2
2026-08	1
2026-09	1

Recommended by

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All 27

Paul Aaron Romanstarted Oct 2024
Night After Nightstarted Sep 2024 · mutual
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Recommends

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Denk Againstarted Jan 2025 · mutual
The Second Fiddlestarted Jan 2025
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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.