Will Friedwald

@willfriedwald · Slouching Towards Birdland (Will Friedwald's SubStack) · Substack profile · Music

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Will Friedwald has 5,898 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #77 on Substack's Music Bestsellers board. 47 publications recommend them, 3 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 5.

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: 5,898; read Nov 1
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 5.5K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 47; +3 in 30 days
Recommends: 5
Bestsellers rank: #77; 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 Will Friedwald on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Nov 1, 2026	5,898	+2	5.5K+
Oct 31, 2026	5,896		5.5K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Music Bestsellers	#77	#76	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	76	76	76	77	▼1

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

47 publications recommend Will Friedwald; 3 started in the last 30 days. Will Friedwald recommends 5, and 2 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
2023-05	1
2023-06	3
2023-07	2
2023-09	1
2023-10	1
2023-11	1
2023-12	1
2024-01	3
2024-02	1
2024-03	1
2024-04	1
2024-07	2
2024-10	1
2024-12	2
2025-01	1
2025-03	1
2025-05	1
2025-06	1
2025-08	2
2025-09	1
2025-11	1
2026-01	2
2026-02	1
2026-04	2
2026-05	2
2026-06	1
2026-07	5
2026-08	2
2026-10	3

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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.