Shazam Fast Forward 2025
These are Shazam's Predictions for breakthrough artists in 2025.Featuring emerging artists who, based on Shazam data and reviewed by our editors, are poised to have a breakthrough year. It's a remarkably global and diverse selection, hailing from 26 countries and spanning sounds from Indie-Rock to UK Drill.
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A veteran of the UK’s ’90s speed-garage scene, the Birmingham producer/DJ has a feel for the heavy grooves and sped-up vocal samples that have made bassline house huge throughout the 2020s. A recent dance-floor encounter with Porn Kings’ cheeky 1996 anthem “Up to No Good” was all it took to convince Hunt to put his own spin on the tune. Twenty-five years into his music career, he unleashed a peak-time stormer that was practically inescapable last summer, leading to Shazam chart runs in New Zealand and the UK last August.
MoreJoe HuntGarage - United Kingdom
The Italian trio take their name from the Greek word for “three-pointed,” which doubles as the ancient name of their native Sicily. TR3NACRIA made their Shazam debut in 2023, spending five weeks on the Greek charts with the Afro-house-inspired “Sikulambele” featuring Lizwi. Last year, the masked trio’s versatile tech-house officially broke through: Four separate TR3NACRIA tracks appeared on the French Shazam charts, where their flip of an Édith Piaf classic, “La Foule (Le Monde Mix)” featuring StereoKilla, remained a fixture for four months.
MoreTR3NACRIADance - Italy
The producer born İsmail Büyüktatlı hails from Turkey, but his sound is fully global, drawing from melodic Afro-house and contemporary Latin pop. Quentro’s been honing his production style since 2017, but his breakthrough came with 2024’s “Perreo,” a chilled-out fusion of melodic house and dembow rhythms in collaboration with fellow Turkish producers Tuna and Kuntay Cevizci that put him on Shazam’s radar upon its release last June.
MoreQuentroDance - Türkiye
Born Katleho Ramalefane in Botshabelo, the largest township in South Africa’s Free State province, Khathapillar got his start playing piano at age 12. He fell in love with amapiano, the South African style of piano-driven deep-house music, as it emerged in the late 2010s, then taught himself production during the pandemic lockdown. His big break (and Shazam debut) came last May with the release of “Diqabang,” an amapiano posse cut alongside Sol Phenduka, Smash SA, and vocalist Kamoh Xaba, with lyrics sung in Sesotho.
MoreKhathapillarAmapiano - South Africa
Before adopting his current alias in the early 2020s, the North Macedonian musician (born Haris Ajrulahi) recorded a pair of melodic house EPs for Armin van Buuren’s Armada Music. Under his new name ALSO ASTIR, he explores a softer sound that folds in gossamer folk textures and his delicate falsetto. Since its release last April, “Forget,” a collaboration with producers YOTTO and AVIRA, has brought festival-grade feels to the Shazam charts worldwide, especially in his current home of Germany.
MoreALSO ASTIRElectronic - North Macedonia
DJs and producers tend to hog the spotlight, but sometimes it’s the vocalist that gives a track its soul. The UK singer Nu-La got her start writing songs on acoustic guitar, then made her dance-music debut on CHANEY’s 2023 filter-disco anthem “Out of My Depth.” With powerhouse vocals fit for a ’90s house diva, she’s since become one of club music’s most in-demand voices, hopping on recent tracks by DubVision, Example, and Benny Benassi.
MoreNu-LaDance - United Kingdom
Barcelona has a proud legacy in dance music, but it hasn’t produced many EDM superstars. The Spanish production duo Prophecy aims to change that with their peak-time anthems made for festival sound systems. The duo spent the past few years climbing the ranks of labels like Armada and Spinnin’ Deep before dropping a pair of splashy collabs: “My City” with Tiësto, which was named the official anthem of EDC Las Vegas 2024, closely followed by “Kill the Vibe” with David Guetta and MORTEN. (Both tracks saw significant Shazam volume throughout Europe and North America last year.)
MoreProphecyTechno - Spain
The Brazilian producer was catapulted into the spotlight by his airy bootleg edit of The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition,” which was played throughout 2023 by a who’s-who of superstar DJs (Black Coffee, Keinemusik, Tiësto) before getting an official release in 2024. But the biggest hit to date from the in-demand remixer was 2024’s “Amana,” a moody tech-house banger with fellow Brazilian Maz, which landed at No. 1 on the Beatport charts upon its release in April, and spent more than seven months on the Greek Shazam charts last year.
MoreVXSIONHouse - Brazil
The Greek DJ and producer has been making dance music for two decades, inspired by childhood favorites like Faithless and Everything But the Girl. He’d released earlier tracks on powerhouse labels like Italy’s d:vision and the Netherlands’ Spinnin’ Deep, but it was his 2024 single “Opera”—an homage to Afro-house with lilting melodies and intricate drum programming—that spiked his Shazam volume last spring and summer, remaining on the Greek chart for more than half the year.
MoreMarasiDance - Greece
The German production duo (Marlon Wenck and Philip Blau) turned heads with their first-ever single, March 2024’s “Karibu.” The hypnotic Afro-house track, with its slinky synth riff and lyrics sung in Kenya’s Kikuyu language, lodged itself in Italy’s Shazam chart for five months last year. It’s not just beginner’s luck: The duo followed it up with a run of Afro-house slow-burners, spiking their Shazam volume again in July with their Albert Breaker and mohalizer collab “Alive.”
MoreWITH UDance - Germany
A veteran of the UK’s ’90s speed-garage scene, the Birmingham producer/DJ has a feel for the heavy grooves and sped-up vocal samples that have made bassline house huge throughout the 2020s. A recent dance-floor encounter with Porn Kings’ cheeky 1996 anthem “Up to No Good” was all it took to convince Hunt to put his own spin on the tune. Twenty-five years into his music career, he unleashed a peak-time stormer that was practically inescapable last summer, leading to Shazam chart runs in New Zealand and the UK last August.
MoreJoe HuntGarage - United Kingdom
DJs and producers tend to hog the spotlight, but sometimes it’s the vocalist that gives a track its soul. The UK singer Nu-La got her start writing songs on acoustic guitar, then made her dance-music debut on CHANEY’s 2023 filter-disco anthem “Out of My Depth.” With powerhouse vocals fit for a ’90s house diva, she’s since become one of club music’s most in-demand voices, hopping on recent tracks by DubVision, Example, and Benny Benassi.
MoreNu-LaDance - United Kingdom
The Italian trio take their name from the Greek word for “three-pointed,” which doubles as the ancient name of their native Sicily. TR3NACRIA made their Shazam debut in 2023, spending five weeks on the Greek charts with the Afro-house-inspired “Sikulambele” featuring Lizwi. Last year, the masked trio’s versatile tech-house officially broke through: Four separate TR3NACRIA tracks appeared on the French Shazam charts, where their flip of an Édith Piaf classic, “La Foule (Le Monde Mix)” featuring StereoKilla, remained a fixture for four months.
MoreTR3NACRIADance - Italy
Barcelona has a proud legacy in dance music, but it hasn’t produced many EDM superstars. The Spanish production duo Prophecy aims to change that with their peak-time anthems made for festival sound systems. The duo spent the past few years climbing the ranks of labels like Armada and Spinnin’ Deep before dropping a pair of splashy collabs: “My City” with Tiësto, which was named the official anthem of EDC Las Vegas 2024, closely followed by “Kill the Vibe” with David Guetta and MORTEN. (Both tracks saw significant Shazam volume throughout Europe and North America last year.)
MoreProphecyTechno - Spain
The producer born İsmail Büyüktatlı hails from Turkey, but his sound is fully global, drawing from melodic Afro-house and contemporary Latin pop. Quentro’s been honing his production style since 2017, but his breakthrough came with 2024’s “Perreo,” a chilled-out fusion of melodic house and dembow rhythms in collaboration with fellow Turkish producers Tuna and Kuntay Cevizci that put him on Shazam’s radar upon its release last June.
MoreQuentroDance - Türkiye
The Brazilian producer was catapulted into the spotlight by his airy bootleg edit of The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition,” which was played throughout 2023 by a who’s-who of superstar DJs (Black Coffee, Keinemusik, Tiësto) before getting an official release in 2024. But the biggest hit to date from the in-demand remixer was 2024’s “Amana,” a moody tech-house banger with fellow Brazilian Maz, which landed at No. 1 on the Beatport charts upon its release in April, and spent more than seven months on the Greek Shazam charts last year.
MoreVXSIONHouse - Brazil
Born Katleho Ramalefane in Botshabelo, the largest township in South Africa’s Free State province, Khathapillar got his start playing piano at age 12. He fell in love with amapiano, the South African style of piano-driven deep-house music, as it emerged in the late 2010s, then taught himself production during the pandemic lockdown. His big break (and Shazam debut) came last May with the release of “Diqabang,” an amapiano posse cut alongside Sol Phenduka, Smash SA, and vocalist Kamoh Xaba, with lyrics sung in Sesotho.
MoreKhathapillarAmapiano - South Africa
The Greek DJ and producer has been making dance music for two decades, inspired by childhood favorites like Faithless and Everything But the Girl. He’d released earlier tracks on powerhouse labels like Italy’s d:vision and the Netherlands’ Spinnin’ Deep, but it was his 2024 single “Opera”—an homage to Afro-house with lilting melodies and intricate drum programming—that spiked his Shazam volume last spring and summer, remaining on the Greek chart for more than half the year.
MoreMarasiDance - Greece
Before adopting his current alias in the early 2020s, the North Macedonian musician (born Haris Ajrulahi) recorded a pair of melodic house EPs for Armin van Buuren’s Armada Music. Under his new name ALSO ASTIR, he explores a softer sound that folds in gossamer folk textures and his delicate falsetto. Since its release last April, “Forget,” a collaboration with producers YOTTO and AVIRA, has brought festival-grade feels to the Shazam charts worldwide, especially in his current home of Germany.
MoreALSO ASTIRElectronic - North Macedonia
The German production duo (Marlon Wenck and Philip Blau) turned heads with their first-ever single, March 2024’s “Karibu.” The hypnotic Afro-house track, with its slinky synth riff and lyrics sung in Kenya’s Kikuyu language, lodged itself in Italy’s Shazam chart for five months last year. It’s not just beginner’s luck: The duo followed it up with a run of Afro-house slow-burners, spiking their Shazam volume again in July with their Albert Breaker and mohalizer collab “Alive.”
MoreWITH UDance - Germany
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