# Noah Kahan

Source: https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile/noah-kahan
Published: 2026-09-22T17:11:34.029Z
Language: en

> Vermont singer-songwriter Noah Kahan built a global folk-pop breakthrough from small-town details, earning Grammy nominations and a Billboard No. 1 with 2026's The Great Divide.

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Artist profile

## Noah Kahan

Vermont singer-songwriter Noah Kahan built a global folk-pop breakthrough from small-town details, earning Grammy nominations and a Billboard No. 1 with 2026's The Great Divide.

## Quick facts

- **Origin:** United States
- **Genres:** alternative, folk pop, acoustic
- **Awards:** 2 Grammy nominations
- **Audience:** 30M Spotify monthly listeners, as of April 30, 2026

![Noah Kahan official artist profile image](https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile-assets/v1/299283/8eeb181d7d65106295a49c992ef1b3558f5af68d1372ebb482b8d9bb125cfe2f.jpg)

*[Artist image via Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RQXRUsr4IW1f3mKyKsy4B)*

- **Spotify monthly listeners:** 30M (No. 211 by Spotify monthly listeners)
- **TikTok tracked video views:** 9.7B (No. 765 by TikTok top-video views)
- **YouTube total views:** 1B
- **Pandora lifetime streams:** 282.8M
- **Total platform audience:** 13.8M
- **Spotify followers:** 5.1M (No. 860 by Spotify followers)
- **YouTube subscribers:** 956K (No. 6210 by YouTube subscribers)
- **TikTok followers:** 3.7M (No. 1508 by TikTok followers)

Figures as of April 30, 2026.

Data

## Audience, reach and discovery

Figures as of April 30, 2026.

### Platform audience

- **Spotify monthly listeners:** 30M (No. 211 by Spotify monthly listeners)
- **Spotify followers:** 5.1M (No. 860 by Spotify followers)
- **YouTube subscribers:** 956K (No. 6210 by YouTube subscribers)
- **Instagram followers:** 3.8M (No. 2508 by Instagram followers)
- **TikTok followers:** 3.7M (No. 1508 by TikTok followers)
- **Deezer fans:** 170.6K (No. 3382 for Deezer fans)
- **Twitch followers:** 363
- **Pandora 28-day listeners:** 1.4M

### Consumption and discovery

- **YouTube total views:** 1B
- **YouTube daily views:** 2.9M
- **YouTube monthly views:** 26.1M
- **TikTok likes:** 111.8M (No. 1098 for TikTok likes)
- **TikTok tracked video views:** 9.7B (No. 765 by TikTok top-video views)
- **TikTok track posts:** 6.5M (No. 1092 for TikTok track posts)
- **Pandora lifetime streams:** 282.8M
- **Shazams:** 17.3M
- **Genius pageviews:** 7.7M

### Playlist footprint

- **Spotify playlist reach:** 321.4M
- **Spotify editorial playlist reach:** 166.1M
- **Spotify playlists:** 586.4K
- **Spotify editorial playlists:** 361
- **Apple Music playlists:** 446
- **Apple Music editorial playlists:** 179
- **Deezer playlists:** 152
- **Deezer editorial playlists:** 27
- **YouTube playlists:** 93
- **YouTube editorial playlists:** 49

### Top listener markets

Leading cities by Spotify monthly listeners.

| Rank | City | Listeners |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | London GB | 890.4K |
| 2 | Chicago US | 641.2K |
| 3 | Sydney AU | 597.4K |
| 4 | Melbourne AU | 493.1K |
| 5 | New York City US | 489K |

Biography

## Life and career

### Vermont roots and first songs

Noah Berkenkamp Kahan was born on January 1, 1997, and grew up in Strafford, Vermont, where his family owned a tree farm. He learned guitar from his father and played an early live show with him as a child, and he began writing his own songs at about eight years old, from a river-boat ballad to angsty punk pastiches performed at school talent shows.

His mother, a bestselling author of parenting books, taught him how writing worked and how to absorb criticism, lessons Kahan has often credited in interviews. That household mix of folk records, guitars, and editorial discipline shaped the detailed, diaristic writing style he later brought to his own career.

### Republic Records and the early albums

Still in high school when he started putting songs online, Kahan drew the attention of producer Joel Little and signed with Republic Records in 2017 at the age of twenty. His debut single, Young Blood, arrived that year, and the 2018 EP Hurt Somebody followed; its title track, featuring Julia Michaels, charted in markets including Australia and New Zealand.

With Little producing, Kahan recorded his debut album Busyhead in New Zealand. Released in June 2019 and led by the single False Confidence, it established the warm, lightly rasped folk-pop voice that would define his later work. A second album, I Was / I Am, arrived in September 2021, again with Little behind the boards.

### Going home: Cape Elizabeth

When the COVID-19 pandemic halted touring, Kahan left New York and returned to Vermont. At a friend's house he wrote the five-track Cape Elizabeth EP in roughly a week and released it in May 2020, an acoustic ode to New England that marked a deliberate turn away from the radio-facing pop of his first records toward the specificity he wanted from his writing.

The homecoming reset his sense of place. Time spent in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville had left him feeling untethered, and writing directly about Vermont reintroduced the themes of small-town restlessness, family, and seasonal change that would organize the work immediately ahead.

### Stick Season and the breakthrough

In October 2020, Kahan posted the first verse of an unfinished song on TikTok. Over the next two years he kept returning to the snippet, teasing fragments of an upcoming album, until Stick Season was already widely known before its full release on July 8, 2022. Kahan has said the title names the term older neighbors in Vermont and New Hampshire use for the gray stretch between late October and the first snow, and that he borrowed it as a metaphor for being stuck between stages of life.

The third studio album, produced by Gabe Simon, arrived on October 14, 2022. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 14, its first appearance on that chart, and eventually climbed to No. 2. A Live Lounge cover by Olivia Rodrigo widened the song's reach, and on January 5, 2024, Stick Season rose to No. 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart, the first chart-topper of the year in Britain and the first of Kahan's career, where it stayed for seven weeks.

In February 2024 Kahan completed an official UK chart double when the single and its parent album topped the singles and albums charts in the same week. In the United States, the 2023 collaboration Dial Drunk with Post Malone reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the Stick Season album kept returning to the upper reaches of the Billboard 200 as its song cycle expanded.

### Deluxe editions and Grammy recognition

Kahan extended the Stick Season era rather than closing it. The deluxe set Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) arrived in June 2023 with seven additional songs and opened the door to a run of reworked duets, including Call Your Mom with Lizzy McAlpine, She Calls Me Back with Kacey Musgraves, Northern Attitude with Hozier, Everywhere, Everything with Gracie Abrams, and Homesick with Sam Fender. Stick Season (Forever) gathered those collaborations, plus new tracks, in February 2024, and the live album Live from Fenway Park followed that August.

The Recording Academy nominated Kahan for Best New Artist at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, his first nomination, and he attended the February 2024 ceremony with his mother, whom he had promised as a child that he would bring to the Grammys. A year later, Cowboys Cry Too with Kelsea Ballerini earned a nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.

### The Busyhead Project and advocacy

Kahan has spoken openly since his early releases about anxiety, depression, and the stigma around treatment, and he has built that advocacy into his professional infrastructure. Named after his 2019 debut, The Busyhead Project launched in 2023 to fund mental-health organizations and circulate resources. By September 2024 the Vermont governor's office reported that it had raised more than $2.5 million, and on September 19 of that year Governor Phil Scott proclaimed the date Noah Kahan's Busyhead Project Day, coinciding with a sold-out Vermont benefit concert whose proceeds went to local mental-health organizations.

Discussing The Great Divide in 2026, Kahan told the BBC that the pressure of following Stick Season had stalled his writing, that he had been diagnosed with OCD, and that returning to medication helped him finish evaluating the large stack of demos he had accumulated.

### The Great Divide

Kahan announced The Great Divide in January 2026 and released the title track as its lead single, with Porch Light following in March. He wrote and recorded the album in settings ranging from a piano in Nashville to a pond in Guilford, Vermont, and released it on April 24, 2026. The set entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 on the chart dated May 9 with 389,000 equivalent album units and returned for a second week atop the chart.

The campaign extended into a major 2026 touring run. The title track peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest chart position to date, and logged an extended run at No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay, while The Great Divide Tour began on June 11, 2026 in Orlando, Florida.

Selected moments

## Career highlights

1. 2017 **Signs with Republic Records** After uploading songs as a teenager and drawing interest from producer Joel Little, Kahan signs with Republic Records at age twenty and releases his debut single, Young Blood.
2. 2019 **Debut album Busyhead** Released in June 2019 and produced by Joel Little in New Zealand, Busyhead is led by the single False Confidence and establishes his folk-pop sound.
3. 2020 **Cape Elizabeth EP written at home** Returned to Vermont during the pandemic, Kahan writes the five-track Cape Elizabeth EP in about a week and releases it in May 2020.
4. 2021 **Second album I Was / I Am** Kahan releases I Was / I Am in September 2021, again produced by Joel Little, continuing his early major-label run.
5. 2022 **Stick Season album arrives** The Gabe Simon-produced third album arrives October 14, 2022 after the title single's full release on July 8, following two years of TikTok teasers.
6. 2024 **Best New Artist Grammy nomination** The Recording Academy nominates Kahan for Best New Artist at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever).
7. 2024 **First UK singles chart Number 1** On January 5, 2024, Stick Season becomes the first Official Singles Chart Number 1 of the year in the UK and the first chart-topper of Kahan's career.
8. 2024 **Live from Fenway Park** Kahan releases the live album Live from Fenway Park in August 2024, documenting his Boston homecoming shows from the Stick Season era.
9. 2024 **Busyhead Project Day in Vermont** Governor Phil Scott proclaims September 19, 2024 Noah Kahan's Busyhead Project Day, alongside a sold-out benefit concert for Vermont mental-health groups.
10. 2025 **Second Grammy nomination** Cowboys Cry Too with Kelsea Ballerini is nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.
11. 2026 **The Great Divide tops the Billboard 200** Kahan's fourth album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated May 9, 2026 with 389,000 equivalent album units, his first chart-topper.
12. 2026 **The Great Divide Tour begins** Following the album's April release, Kahan's The Great Divide Tour launches on June 11, 2026 in Orlando, Florida.

Recognition

## Grammy Awards nominations

Noah Kahan has received two Grammy nominations as a credited performer and has not won. His first nomination came in a general field, and his second in the country field, both confirmed on the Recording Academy's artist page.

- **Grammy nominations:** 2
- **Grammy wins:** 0

| Year | Award | Category | Work |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2024 | 66th Annual Grammy Awards | Best New Artist Nominee | Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) |
| 2025 | 67th Annual Grammy Awards | Best Country Duo/Group Performance Nominee | Cowboys Cry Too |

Sources

- [Noah Kahan — Official Website ↗](https://noahkahan.com/)
- [Recording Academy — Noah Kahan artist page ↗](https://www.grammy.com/artists/noah-kahan/54009/)
- [Official Charts — Stick Season secures first Number 1 of 2024 ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/noah-kahan-stick-season-number-1-2024/)
- [Official Charts — Stick Season chart history ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/noah-kahan-stick-season/)
- [Billboard — Noah Kahan Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/noah-kahan-the-great-divide-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1236237889/)
- [Billboard — The Great Divide spends second week atop Billboard 200 ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/noah-kahan-the-great-divide-second-week-atop-billboard-200-1236243954/)
- [Vermont Governor — Noah Kahan's Busyhead Project Day press release ↗](https://governor.vermont.gov/press-release/governor-phil-scott-proclaims-thursday-september-19-noah-kahans-busyhead-project-day)
- [BBC News — Noah Kahan was crowned a superstar. It messed with his head ↗](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjdlq9k0go)
- [AllMusic — Noah Kahan Biography ↗](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/noah-kahan-mn0003592649)
- [Boston Magazine — Meet Noah Kahan, the Voice of an Emotionally Evolved Generation ↗](https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2023/08/31/noah-kahan-new-england/)
- [The Boston Globe — New Englander Noah Kahan is connecting with fans by being honest about himself ↗](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/25/arts/new-englander-noah-kahan-is-connecting-with-fans-by-being-honest-about-himself/)
- [NPR — Noah Kahan gets a No. 1 album at last ↗](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5813650/noah-kahan-the-great-divide-michael-jackson-charts)
- [Variety — Noah Kahan Scores First No. 1 on Albums Chart With The Great Divide ↗](https://variety.com/2026/music/news/noah-kahan-scores-first-no-1-albums-chart-the-great-divide-1236736424/)
- [CBS News — Noah Kahan opens up about his Best New Artist Grammy nomination ↗](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/noah-kahan-grammy-awards-nomination-best-new-artist-cbs-mornings/)
- [KCRW and NPR — Noah Kahan on TikTok fame, tour and the Grammys ↗](https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/weekend-edition-sunday/npr-story/1228668717)
- [Wikipedia — Noah Kahan ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kahan)