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This was not my first visit to Nashville, but it was my first time attending Americanafest. My friend and coworker and fellow musician (and awesome podcaster) Dan and I went this year to promote Pandora AMP. Dan had previously participated in Americanafest. But my history with the genre had me sort of lamenting that I should’ve started attending a long time ago. Back in the mid 1990s, my first job out of college was with The Gavin Report, a now defunct music trade magazine. I worked my way up to Associate Editor for Rob Bleetstein. If his name sounds familiar, it’s probably because he’s the voice of Pearl Jam Radio on SiriusXM. But back then, Rob was the very first person to chart Americana radio singles. This was 14 years before Billboard published their first Americana chart. Needless to say, he introduced me to a genre of music that changed my life – for the past three decades, I’ve been playing/recording/touring in twangy rock bands and writing about the genre. So yeah…I finally made it to Americanafest this year. Better late than never.

This month: Community shoutouts, musical moments, fall themed stations, and managing your team in AMP.

This month: Musical Moments, new blog post, trendspotting, questions of the week, this or that, and new music. 

As Music Analysts here at Pandora, we hear a lot of music. Like… a lot. Almost exclusively new releases, spanning a wide spectrum of genres. There’s an in-house tally where fellow employees share their total Pandora listening hours for the week, and let’s just say, any one of our analysts would be top contenders if it included our work-listening. This might sound like bragging, but no more so than a dentist telling you they see a lot of teeth.

The long and short of having all that music pass between your ears, is that you might occasionally spot certain trends as they emerge in real time. One of our analysts, Hannah Glass, sensed a pattern developing among some recent hits.

See if you can identify what Hannah noticed these three tracks having in common?

Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter