{"id":804109,"date":"2020-02-12T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951674"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:24:15","slug":"trevor-daniels-emotive-music-is-selling-out-shows-and-topping-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/trevor-daniels-emotive-music-is-selling-out-shows-and-topping-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Daniel\u2019s Emotive Music Is Selling Out Shows and Topping Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trevor-daniel-ph.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday night at Los Angeles\u2019 Roxy Theatre, a sold-out crowd full of recognizable TikTokers and tastemakers greets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trevor-daniel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trevor-daniel\" data-tag=\"trevor-daniel\">Trevor Daniel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old emo-pop purveyor has found himself lingering in the industry eye as a shining reflection of the current business model: get traction on SoundCloud, amass a following on TikTok, ink a fat deal. Daniel is signed to Alamo, music biz veteran Todd Moscowitz\u2019s subsidiary label through Interscope. His breakout single, \u201cFalling,\u201d has garnered more than 350 million streams on Spotify alone and inspired remixes by Summer Walker and Alamo labelmate blackbear. (The track sits at Number Eight on Spotify\u2019s weekly global chart, and Number Six in the U.S. \u2013 sandwiched between The Weeknd and Post Malone, respectively. He also has more than 27 million worldwide monthly listeners on the platform.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eIc4mqyN1Q8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Daniel has become a label priority, as evidenced by Interscope CEO John Janick and EVP Joie Manda\u2019s attendance at a Sunset Strip club on a school night. Universal Music Group ended 2019 as the label group with the biggest market share, and Interscope appeared victorious as the UMG label with the highest percentage of said share. Some of Interscope\u2019s top 2019 earners included Lady Gaga, Eminem, Billie Eilish and Juice WRLD. The connecting factor here, aside from star power, is vulnerability. All of these artists prove that emotional authenticity is more compelling to today\u2019s consumer than braggadocio, and Daniel fits comfortably as a part of that pack. And much like Eilish and Juice WRLD, he blurs the lines of categorization; he\u2019s a little bit rap, a little bit R&amp;B, a splash of pop and a pinch of alternative. Onstage at The Roxy, he\u2019s styled like a hip-hop star, sings earworms like a pop star and is backed by a drummer and a guitarist like a rock star.<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u2019s set covered a lot of ground, with Daniel breezing through an hour\u2019s worth of material. He first jumped into the crowd for \u201cParanoid,\u201d weaving through a sea of sweaty adolescence and holding hands with attendees before forming a cross between a prayer circle and a championship-game football huddle \u2014 a mass of limbs that pulsates to an almost tribal rhythm. At closing time, he leaves fans with \u201cFalling,\u201d which also warrants a hop into the crowd, but this time his guitarist augments the track with a searing solo. The crowd knows every word, and the lights go on by 10 pm. Everyone\u2019s a winner (including the kids with curfews), and Trevor Daniel is here to remind you of that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/trevor-daniel-sells-out-roxy-theatre-la-951674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night at Los Angeles\u2019 Roxy Theatre, a sold-out crowd full of recognizable TikTokers and tastemakers greets Trevor Daniel. The 25-year-old emo-pop purveyor has found himself lingering in the industry eye as a shining reflection of the current business model: get traction on SoundCloud, amass a following on TikTok, ink a fat deal. Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 22:56:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}