Get the latest gossip
Chartbreaker: Dasha Left a Lover in the Dust — and Lassoed a Country-Pop Breakout With ‘Austin’
Dasha's 'Austin' continues to grow as the country-pop singer-songwriter's breakthrough hit on the charts. Meet Billboard's May 2024 Chartbreaker.
The San Luis Obispo, Calif., native started performing at local coffee shops at 10, and three years later, her father gifted her a professional studio session for her birthday to record one of her songs. Her pop-oriented debut album Dirty Blonde followed in 2023, but it wasn’t until “Austin” 10 months later that listeners flocked en masse, prompting Dasha to further explore the blend of catchy pop-country fusion as an artistic sweet spot. While Dasha works on a deluxe version of What Happens Now?, she believes the biggest opportunity to grow the song is performing it live: “Now that I finally have an audience listening, we can spend the time and energy and make this into something really, really magical.”
Or read this on Billboard
