Penny Lane

@lennypane · Penny Lane Is My Real Name · Substack profile · Film & TV

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Penny Lane has 4,850 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #22 on Substack's Film & TV Bestsellers board. 38 publications recommend them, 4 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 18.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 2 h 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: 4,850; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 4.1K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 38; +4 in 30 days
Recommends: 18
Bestsellers rank: #22; Film & TV

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 Penny Lane on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	4,850		4.1K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Film & TV Bestsellers	#22	#22	4 of 4
Film & TV Rising	#11	#11	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
Film & TV Bestsellers	23	23	23	22	▲1
Film & TV Rising	40	14	14	11	▲29

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

38 publications recommend Penny Lane; 3 started in the last 30 days. Penny Lane recommends 18, and 10 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
2025-11	1
2025-12	10
2026-01	3
2026-02	6
2026-04	5
2026-05	2
2026-06	2
2026-07	3
2026-08	2
2026-10	4

Recommended by

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The B-Sidestarted Apr 15, 2026
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All 38

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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.