Ground Frequencyhttps://www.groundfreq.com/We measure the frequency of the underground.enWed, 26 Aug 2026 02:16:02 +0900The Chart Says Max Dean. The Diary Explains.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-max-dean/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-max-dean/One name came out on top of our United Kingdom rising chart this week. The paper trail behind it is short. The touring diary, which we can check, is not.Western EuropeTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900One Video Is Carrying Slayyyter's Whole Channel.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-slayyyter/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-slayyyter/She tops the deepest artist chart we score. Her own YouTube tells a stranger story: a single upload with sixty-seven times the reach of the next one.North AmericaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900The Record Is the Recording. Natanzinho Lima Prints the Number on It.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/brazil-natanzinho-lima/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/brazil-natanzinho-lima/He carries the largest audience on any chart we publish this week. His biggest uploads all come from one live DVD — and one of them has the streaming milestone written into its title.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Shimza's Channel Is a Diary of Rooms, Not a Release List.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/south-africa-shimza/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/south-africa-shimza/He leads South Africa on our chart with an audience sixteen times larger on Instagram than on YouTube. What he does publish there is almost entirely sets, filed by the room they were played in.AfricaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900We Hold Five Dates on MPH. Not One of Them Is a Room.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-mph/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-mph/The United Kingdom's #3 this week signed to a major in April and put out a record with Skrillex ten days ago. Our appearance file on him names five places and no venues — and two of those we deleted this week.Western EuropeTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Rising Does Not Mean New. Valgur's File Goes Back Twelve Years.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-valgur/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-valgur/Mexico's #2 this week is a sibling duo from Juchitán, Oaxaca, twelve years and three records into the work. What moved is not the catalogue — it is a touring diary that now runs on both sides of the border.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900One Voice, Two Rows: Our Mexican Chart Counted Rosendo Cantú Twice.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-palomazo-norteno/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-palomazo-norteno/He is #1 this week fronting Los Cadetes de Linares, and #3 as one quarter of Palomazo Norteño. The stadium date our file held for the second act never happened — and nobody said so out loud.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Pacha Sells Sunday. Our File Kept Landing on Thursday.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/spain-pacha/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/spain-pacha/The marquee night on the Ibiza calendar belongs to Solomun, in its twelfth year. But it was eight spring Thursdays run by a South African DJ that put this room at the top of the first Ground Frequency room index — and we caught two of them.Western EuropeTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Mexico's Number One Has No Channel, No Tour Dates, and a Name Owned in Texas.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-rosendo-cantu/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-rosendo-cantu/Rosendo Cantú has fronted Los Cadetes de Linares since 1982. At least nine other acts trade on the name, a Texas corporation holds the trademark, and every date he plays this year is billed as somebody else's show.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Japan's Fastest-Rising Account Sold Out London in a Minute.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/japan-f5ve/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/japan-f5ve/f5ve chart third in Japan this week on the steepest follower curve in our whole queue. The clearest evidence for it is a room in Tottenham, a venue upgrade of roughly seven times, and a catalogue sung entirely in Japanese.East AsiaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900Nine Million Listeners, a Room That Holds 1,500, and a Setlist That Skips Four Albums.https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-current-joys/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-current-joys/Current Joys charts third in the United States this week on a follower curve. He is in Camden tonight, sold out, playing a set that draws nothing at all from the four albums his last label released.North AmericaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900