After lending her voice to plenty of dance music’s most recognizable tracks of the final decade, Annika Wells is stepping away from the EDM highlight, a minimum of beneath her personal identify.
The voice behind a number of the style’s most cinematic choruses is altering the station. In a social media post remodeled the weekend, Wells introduced she’s not releasing digital music options as a solo artist. The Los Angeles native, whose hovering vocals powered ILLENIUM’s “Nightlight,” “Unhappy Songs” and the fan-favorite “Crawl Outta Love,” mentioned the choice finally got here right down to a quietly potent pressure in fashionable music: the streaming algorithm.
In line with Wells, bouncing between her solo pop materials and her high-profile digital options has left the Spotify algorithm not sure of learn how to classify her. It’s an issue that, in her view, limits her visibility on the platform, significantly on genre-based editorial playlists.
“Sadly streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have this factor the place they need artists to form of match right into a field, and in case your music doesn’t sound like one factor, they don’t know the place to place you,” Wells mentioned. “Proper now Spotify isn’t playlisting me anyplace. So a number of months in the past, I made the onerous resolution that I’m by no means gonna be doing one other digital function once more.”
The information landed with followers onerous initially as Wells obtained “lots of” of feedback and messages, she mentioned, prompting her to return to social media to make clear her plan. The singer-songwriter confirmed she’s not abandoning digital options altogether, however slightly shifting them to her new artist challenge, child blue, a duo shaped along with her boyfriend, James Fast.
“I’ll nonetheless be placing out music beneath the identify Annika Wells,” she mentioned. “It simply received’t be digital music.”
She additionally introduced the tandem’s first digital function, “Monster” with EDM.com Class of 2021 artist William Black, will arrive this Friday.
Within the meantime, you possibly can hearken to child blue’s debut single “u + me” under.
Comply with Annika Wells:
X: x.com/itmeannikawells
TikTok: tiktok.com/@annikamusic
Instagram: instagram.com/annikawells
Fb: facebook.com/annikawellsmusic
Spotify: bit.ly/42e7t1K
