Year in Review

These are 10 incredibly talented breakout artists to keep your eye on and start listening to next to add to your roster of new artists/bands to follow. These are SoundCheck's top 10 biggest breakouts of 2026.

It started with a whisper. A tiny idea. A quiet moment where we decided to try something ourselves, this time with our full chests. We didn’t know where it would go. We just knew we wanted to build something with intention. SoundCheck began small and digital. Our first interview lived in a Word document. Our first artist was someone we already knew and believed in.