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Young Talent in the form of Assia Keva and the Success of Keljo and Mr Popolo

From children's songs to the hottest young talent, SoundOn Indonesia has it all.

Charlotte
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December 31st, 2022

What was unique in 2022 is there were several musicians from SoundOn Indonesia who are still young, but already have excellent talent. There was also a children's song that achieved amazing success and received a lot of attention. Curious about their story? Make sure to read until the end!

Assia Keva

In 2022, SoundOn Indonesia became the home of a young and gifted talent. At just 18 years old, Assia Keva, with her unique voice released two singles in 2022 with SoundOn Indonesia. Her first single "Goodbye", generated a total of +228K streams. She also managed to receive several playlists on Spotify, namely "New Music Friday Indonesia", "Fresh Finds Indonesia", and "JIVVA". On Apple Music, she made it into "New Music Daily".

Assia Keva's follow up single "Only You" generated a total of +179K streams. On Spotify, she received a total of eight playlists! Not only playlists from Indonesia, Assia Keva was also featured on several Asian regional playlists. She was featured in "i'm not crying. you are", "New Music Friday Indonesia", "tapioca", "that should be me", "mood.", "Women of Indonesia", "JIVVA", and "Ke Seberang". On Apple Music, she was also included in four playlists, namely "Shazam Stars", "Breaking: Indonesian Music", "ALT ASIA", and "New Music Daily". She was also selected to participate in the Apple Music Shazam Holiday Campaign 2022.

Keljo

Keljo, the talented singer from SoundOn Indonesia who first entered the scene in one of Indonesia's most popular singing competitions, also had several hits in 2022. Keljo started making waves with his viral cover song, a Pop/R&B inspired "Putri Iklan", originally from the rock group ST12 generating a total of +12M streams.

His second single "Jangan Katakan Cinta" or #JKC was released in July generating +3M streams was also featured on Spotify's "Naik Daun" playlist, while on Apple Music he was supported with the playlists "Future Hits", "Shazam Indonesia Risers", and "Indonesian Music Today".

Keljo's third single "Jatuh dan Menari" managed to generate +156K streams while being featured on playlists from Spotify's "Naik Daun" and "New Music Friday Indonesia" as well as Apple Music's "Future Hits", "Shazam Stars" and "Indonesian Music Today" playlists.

Based on his success, Keljo was selected to participate in the Apple Music Shazam Holiday Campaign 2022 and Resso Rising 2022 program.

Mr Popolo

Mr Popolo is a unique musician from 2022, known for his single "Dino Song" which is actually a children's song that became extremely viral. Although the single was originally released in 2021, it became popular in 2022 and generated +5.1M unique videos on TikTok. He was also featured on Apple Music's "Viral Hits" playlist generating a total of +6M streams.

Doesn't it inspire you to create as much music as possible considering the success of these musicians? Get your music ready for 2023 with SoundOn Indonesia and don't forget to keep up with the latest music from Assia Keva, Keljo, and Mr Popolo!