WHAT IT IS: The 21-year-old singer/songwriter, who plays a half-dozen instruments, is a curator of one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels in the world. In early 2016, the Los Angeles-based tastemaker had already amassed a following of millions, creating his own “flipped” versions of popular songs. He posted a video performing a cleverly arranged mashup of Drake’s “One Dance” and Nicky Jam’s “Hasta el Amanecer” that immediately went viral and prompted Fader to state, “Alex Aiono is the shockingly good YouTube singer the world actually needs.” To date, the clip has amassed more than 50m views. New single “Question” dropped on 4/21.
ALBUM: TBD
Single: “Question”
TV: Co-hosted the Radio Disney Music Awards 4/30
LIVE: Eight-week summer tour with Sabrina Carpenter
INTERNET: 4.6m YouTube subscribers and half a billion views, 2.1m Instagram followers, 450k+ Twitter followers (social following at 10m+)
RADIO: Hosts a weekly radio show on Radio Disney
PRESS: Fader, Buzzfeed, PopSugar
BOOKING: CAA
PUBLISHING: BMG
MANAGEMENT: Billy Mann & Liz Baylog/Mann Comm