One week after her arrival on Billboard’s charts, Dasha turns into a Billboard Sizzling 100-charting artist, due to her breakthrough viral single “Austin.”
The tune, launched in November by way of Model III, debuts at No. 74 on the March 23-dated Sizzling 100 with 6.7 million official streams (up 65%), 84,000 in radio airplay viewers (up 173%) and a pair of,000 downloads bought (up 116%) within the U.S. March 8-14, in accordance with Luminate.
The observe additionally jumps 31-17 on Sizzling Nation Songs, which makes use of the identical multi-metric methodology because the Sizzling 100.
Dasha is predicated in Nashville, by way of San Luis Obispo, Calif. Beneficial properties for “Austin” have been sparked by TikTok, the place she boasts over 400,000 followers. Seemingly boosted by the rising wave behind Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ‘Em” – which tops Sizzling Nation Songs for a fifth week – “Austin” soundtracks a line-dance pattern began by Dasha. The tune has been featured in over 300,000 movies on the platform. Billboard reported that within the monitoring week ending Feb. 15, wherein Beyoncé launched “Texas Maintain ‘Em” halfway by, “Austin” vaulted from 82,000 official on-demand streams the week earlier than to over 830,000 – up 916%. The subsequent week (ending Feb. 22), the tune grew 182% to 2.3 million.
Airplay-wise, SiriusXM is championing the tune on TikTok Radio and its country-formatted The Freeway. Terrestrially, Nation Airplay chart reporter KBAY San Francisco leads in early publicity for the observe.
“Austin” is on Dasha’s new eight-track LP What Occurs Now?, launched Feb. 16. Earlier than that, she launched the gathering Soiled Blonde in January 2023, by way of Quadio Information, and her six-track EP $hiny Issues in 2021.
Dasha, who co-wrote “Austin,” additionally surges from No. 29 to No. 11 on Billboard’s Rising Artists chart.
