5 Billboard Chart Debutants This Week: Clooonee, Alek Olsen, King Hendrick$ & More

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While established artists often compete for a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and the Billboard 200 albums chart, which track the most popular songs and albums of the week, respectively, up-and-coming talent usually starts on genre-specific charts.

Here's a look at five artists appearing in surveys for the first time on the charts dated March 30, 2024.

Shake it

The house DJ arrives Advertising signof the charts with “Sippin' Yak.” Released on March 15 via Polydor/Hellbent/Black Book, the song amassed 644,000 streams in the US and sold 1,000 downloads in its first week of release (March 15-21), according to Luminate. These amounts help the track debut at No. 25 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, as well as No. 6 on Dance/Electronic Digital Songs sales. The song samples Tracey Lee's 2001 song “We Like” featuring Fatman Scoop.

Cloonee, from the UK, has been performing the song during his live shows for months, but started teasing the song on his TikTok page in January. (The song is no longer available on TikTok due to the ongoing dispute between the platform and Universal Music Group.)

Clune has been performing and releasing music, including several EPs, for more than a decade. He has collaborated with many dance colleagues including Brisotti, Caleb Calloway, Dances, Chris Lake and Wade. He has tours scheduled in North America and Europe through August, including Coachella this April.

Alec Olsen

The singer-songwriter scores his first career entry Advertising signon the charts thanks to “Someday I'll Get It.” The song, which was self-released on October 23, debuts at No. 17 on Hot Alternative Songs, No. 22 on Hot Rock Songs and No. 24 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (all using the same polymetric Hot 100 methodology) with 2.6 million official US streams (up 126%) in the March 15-21 tracking week.

The song has grown in recent weeks due to the buzz created on TikTok, where it has been used more than 375,000 clips on the platform to date. Many creators use the song to soundtrack their experiences of losing beloved pets, specifically with the line “I think about you all the time/ now that you're gone.” The virality led to the song's No. 19 debut on the Billboard TikTok Top 50 chart dated March 23.

Olsen originally released the song earlier this decade under the name Imsad., before renaming it to his birth name. He has released five other songs on streaming services, all since 2015.

King Hendrick$

The Houston rapper makes his debut Advertising signon the charts with his breakthrough single “Leaving the Lot”. The song, released Feb. 15 via Bigmoneymissions Records, debuted at No. 48 on the March 23 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs survey and ranks at No. 49 on the latest chart. From March 15 to 21 it garnered 3.3 million streams in the US, up 10%. King Hendrick$ also climbs 40-35 on the Emerging Artists chart.

The recent gains for “Leaving the Lot” can be attributed in part to Twitch streamer Sketch (aka @thesketchreal), who boasts over 500,000 followers on the platform and streams while chatting and playing video games. After the song was played in a February 14 stream, it amassed 500,000 official US on-demand streams, February 16–22. From February 23 to 29, it grew 175% to 1.4 million. Sketch went on to play the song, which led to other viral audio clips of the cut on TikTok and Twitter. King Hendrick$ shouted at Sketch an Instagram post on March 20 celebrates its chart debut.

King Hendrick$ has released eight albums, all since 2016. He's already released nearly two dozen songs this year alone, including, most recently, “Blocking on a Sunday” featuring Hoodrich Keem (March 13) and “Special Teams Anthem” featuring Top$ide and Sketch (March 6). He has also collaborated with Babyface Ray on “Wavy Gang Immortal” and “Big Meech Holiday”.

Novulent

The shoegaze artist arrives Advertising signin his charts with his song “Scars”. Released in June 2023 via The Royals, the track debuts at No. 45 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs with 1.5 million streams (up 11%). TikTok has contributed to the increasing visibility of the song, as part of its audio has become a soundtrack more than 90,000 clips on the platform to date, incl one by Megan Thee Stallion on March 11.

“Scars” appears on the third LP Vol. 1, released in October. He has released three additional discs: My story (2022), My story 2 (2023) and DEAR DIARY (this January). He has a new set, Secret Lettersdue this Friday (March 29).

Bjrnck

The Chicago native lands a first Advertising sign chart entry thanks to her signature appearance on Omarion's “Taking Off.” Released in December on Omarion's latest LP Full Circle: Sonic Boom Two (on Omarion Worldwide), the track debuts at No. 28 on Adult R&B Airplay with a 28% spin gain. “BJRNCK is a pure superstar,” Omarion wrote on a January 28 Instagram post. “I loved working with her.”

Bjrnck has released six solo songs on streaming services, all since 2019, including collaborations with Big Freedia, HappyBirthdayCalvin and Lucky Daye. In February, he released a new collaboration with Eric Bellinger, “Pheenin.”

As for Omarion, “Taking Off” is the R&B veteran's second song Full circle to hit Adult R&B Airplay after “Serious” peaked at No. 18 in January. Before that, he was last recorded in the format in 2006, with “Entourage”.