UP & COMING ASIAN ARTISTS PT. 7 | 100K AND BELOW
BY BRENESSA ROACH | JUNE 14, 2025
We’re back with the seventh installment of our UP & COMING ASIAN ARTISTS | 100K AND BELOW series! As always, this edition features six talented Asian artists, each with under 100K monthly listeners on Spotify. Spanning a variety of genres, these picks highlight the diversity and creativity of emerging voices in the music scene.
Let’s get started…
Current monthly listeners: 29.4K
Celine, known artistically as owellciao, is a Singaporean singer who debuted on May 20, 2022 with the single “love always,” a collaboration with MAJULAH WEEKENDER and evanturetime. On June 23, 2023, she released her first solo single, “i love u, so”. In 2024, she released “be honest” on April 19 and “over again” on October 25. These three songs served as pre-release singles leading up to her debut EP *CODE SWITCH,* which was officially released on May 23, 2025.
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Current monthly listeners: 47.1K
elasian, also known as LCN!, is a Filipino indie pop singer and songwriter based in Seattle. He made his debut on March 10, 2023, with the track “PUZZLE PIECES”, and has steadily released music throughout 2023 and 2024. We first discovered LCN! in October 2023 with the release of “PLEASE WAIT FOR ME”, his most popular song to date, which has over 1.6 million streams on Spotify.
In 2025, he’s continued to build his discography with “FEEL IT” in January, “LOVERS IN SPACE” in March, “PROWER” in May, and most recently, “THE TV’S ON” on June 13 — a track that’s quickly become one of our favourites.
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Current monthly listeners: 35.3K
FiFi Zhang is a multifaceted artist — singer, songwriter, producer, DJ, visual designer, and creative director — born and raised in Shanghai and currently based in New York City. She made her debut on November 22, 2019, with the single “Butterfly”. In June 2020, she followed up with three more singles: “I Just Don’t Know What To Do”, “Drink it”, and “Rain All Night”.
After releasing two songs in 2021 and taking a break in 2022, FiFi made a strong comeback in June 2023 with “So Beautiful So Lonely” — now her most popular track with over 2.1 million streams. The song served as a pre-release single for her debut EP, So Beautiful So Lonely, released on March 17, 2023.
Her most recent release, “Love, Repeat”, dropped on February 28, 2024.
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Current monthly listeners: 853
JUICEBOX is an indie pop and rock band consisting of Adya (vocals), Malik (guitar), Zizy (bass) and Arvin (drums). The group formed in 2023 and released their first song “FMO” on November 24. Following their debut, they released “Fallen Sky” on March 1, 2024 and “Home” on August 16.
In 2025, they released “Drive Like I Do” on February 21, which is their latest release.
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Current monthly listeners: 89.2K
Marian Carmel is a Filipino singer-songwriter and visual artist based in Singapore. They made their debut on August 30, 2018 with the single “Thursday”, a collaboration with Axel Brizzy. Since then, Marian has consistently released music, including their debut album *to you, to me,* which dropped on October 29, 2021.
They continued to build their discography with numerous releases throughout 2022 and 2023, including the EP what if nobody kisses me?, which features the track of the same name — the song that first introduced us to Marian’s work.
So far in 2025, Marian has released “Parachuting Off The Moon” on May 16, along with a collaborative album with Dru Chen titled Renaissance, also released on the same day.
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Tyler Vu, known by his artist name Tyka is a singer-songwriter from Wichita, Kansas, USA. He made his debut on February 25, 2020, with the single “Constantly”, followed by “Summer Leaves” on June 4. After releasing one single in 2021 and taking a break in 2022, Tyka returned in 2023 with his debut album, ALL FOR U on September 25, 2023.
He continued expanding discography throughout2024, and in 2025, his only release so far is his latest EP, Mr. Melancholy, which dropped on May 30.
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