Desks
We cover 16 scenes through 6 regional desks. A desk is an organisational byline over a defined beat — the unit that decides what gets reported, and the name that answers for it.
Every desk is staffed by the same accountable people: a named human editor signs off on everything published under one. We do not run invented local correspondents, and we never will — why that matters.
DATA DESK
East Asia
Korea and Japan: dense club and live-house circuits where independent acts build locally before anyone abroad hears them.
DATA DESK
Western Europe
The deepest venue registry we hold — a club economy old enough that movement in it usually means something.
DATA DESK
North America
The largest scored pool on the site, and the noisiest: momentum here has to clear a much higher bar to register.
DATA DESK
Latin America & Caribbean
Fast-moving scenes with export histories — where a local surge has a track record of turning into a global one.
DATA DESK
Southeast Asia
Young, quickly expanding circuits. Our coverage here is still deepening, and we say so on every chart it affects.
DATA DESK
Africa
Two of the continent's loudest exporters. Venue coverage lags artist coverage here — a gap we report rather than paper over.
WHAT A DESK PUBLISHES
Charts publish weekly for every scene we cover. Written pieces do not: they are triggered when the data crosses a threshold we set in advance, capped at 4 a week across all desks. A quiet week is allowed to be quiet. How that works