The Artists

Rex Orange County

Year Started: 2015
Age: 23 years old
Full name: Alexander James O'Connor
Music genre: Alternative/Indie/Bedroom Pop
Nationality: British

Rex Orange County is a british singer/artist. Able to play many instruments such as the guitar, piano, bass and drums. His talent in music writing and singing abilities has helped him increase his popularity in the recent years. This has all started on the 4th september 2015, where Rex Orange County has realeased his own first album named "Bcos U Will Never B free" on the websites SoundCloud and Bandcamp. In return, the album and the songs gained tons of exposure, which has helped get his own personal management team. Furthermore, he gained a lot listeners ever since he was featured on the album "Flower Boy" by the popular hip-hop/rap artist Tyler The Creator. His unique ability to sing and to make relaxing music is what made his millions of fans love his work and songs.

Did you know, Rex Orange County has 10,939,381 million monthly listeners on Spotify, in 2021!

Doja Cat

Year Started: 2012
Age: 26 years old
Full name: Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini
Music genre: R&B/Hip Hop/Pop/Rap
Nationality: American

Born in Los Angeles, Doja Cat is an American rapper, singer and songwriter that started making music as a teenager on SoundCloud. Also known as Amala or "Doja" for short, has always been talented and interested for music at a young age. Doja Cat was always able to make catchy lyrics with the help of nice instrumentals music in the backgrond. At the age of 17, she managed to sign with a record deal which granted her the ability to produce her very first Album in 2014, named "Purrr!". It is only in 2018, when she started getting popular and becoming an internet meme after the realese of her single "Mooo!". this single itself has helped her gain traction, and boosted her popularity ever since. It is no wonder that in the recent years she has become a phenomenal artist, who has constantly released award winning albums and viral songs. She has become an internet sensation, having her songs constantly play on the radio and used worldwide on the application TikTok.

The song "Say So", was Doja Cat's first number 1 song on the Hot 100 chart.

Joji

Year Started: 2015
Age: 29 years old
Full name: George Kusunoki Miller
Music genre: R&B/Soul
Nationality: Japanese

Joji is half Japanese and Half Australian. Born in Japan then moved to America later on, George always had in interest in film making, creating videos and making experimental music. Prior to his music career, Joji was a well known and popular youtuber by the name of FilthyFrank or Pink Guy. He would make comedic videos and on the side he would create comedic and sad songs. Eventually he decided to quit his career as a Youtuber to persue music full time. This lead him to many opportunities and it payed off as he became one of the biggest asian american singer in America. his success came due to his ability to sing sad and relaxing songs. This would catch the eye of many fans as they can all relate to the themes that joji would display in his songs: relationships, breakups and love. Signing with the label 88rising, Joji managed to make many more succesful songs and albums.

The Album "Ballads 1", reached number 1 on the on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums on November 2018.

Kanye West

Year Started: 1996
Age: 44 years old
Full name: Kanye Omari West (old) / Ye (current)
Music genre: Hip-Hop/Rap/Pop
Nationality: American

Kanye West born in Atlanta Georgia, started making music in 1996, which he mainly made music beats for the local artists in his area. Kanye was always very talented in making music, especially using old music samples and changing it to his own style. His rapping skills and the use of strong lyrics also served him well as it helped him gain a massive fan base in the music industry. His sense of music is unique and none like others. He mainly became an music sensation when he dropped his album "The College Dropout" in 2004. Eventually, he would drop many more award-winning albums and he would become an icon in the hip-hop and rap community as Kanye would be nominated and win manny times for the excellent music he puts out for his fans.

In total, Kanye West would be nominated 763 times, to which he won 271 of them.