July 2026 BTR Power Chart Winners: Meet the Artists Taking the Top Spots

DO THAT GURRRL

There’s something refreshingly self-aware about mr-me-x-3’s story. His profile traces the mission all the way back to second grade, when his answer to what he wanted to become was a one-hit wonder. Years later, he’s still chasing that target — except now he’s sitting on a BTR category win.

DO THAT GURRRL is classified Hip-Hop / Rap at 150 BPM, making it one of the fastest records in July’s winner field. The result: the tongue-in-cheek “one-hit-wonder” mission just picked up another chapter.

LISTEN TO DO THAT GURRRL → MEET MR-ME-X-3

BROKEN SOUL

Button up × youyou × Boybest

youyou keeps the public bio almost aggressively simple: music entertainment. That’s it. No ten-paragraph origin story and no over-explanation.

The July result supplies the missing context. Broken Soul Button up x youyou x Boybest takes the Afrobeats category at 97 BPM. With the profile deliberately saying very little, this is one winner where the release gets to do the introduction.

HEAR THE AFROBEATS WINNER → YOUYOU PROFILE

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The filename may look unfinished. The artist story isn’t. Pensacola-based jakayvion-steele- describes himself as an artist, songwriter, producer, actor and dancer — a genuinely multi-disciplinary profile that makes an “Unclassified” category feel oddly appropriate.

The winning record runs at 130 BPM and doesn’t try to fit neatly into one of BTR’s established genre lanes. Sometimes the useful signal from a chart isn’t a clean label. It’s the fact that listeners found it anyway.

OPEN THE WINNING TRACK → ARTIST PROFILE

THIS IS WHY THE CHARTS ARE INTERESTING

SUMMER LOGIC

onlyrhesexy · OnlyEntertainment

Denver-based OnlyTheSexy positions the project around modern R&B informed by 90s soul, atmospheric production and a polished contemporary finish.

At 80 BPM, Summer Logic sits at the slower end of July’s field — a very different proposition from the high-tempo rap, club and electronic winners surrounding it.

LISTEN TO SUMMER LOGIC → MEET ONLYTHESEXY

NO NEED TO LOOK BACK

CJFR · Nnewi, Nigeria

CJFR is the stage name of Nigerian gospel and inspirational artist Chukwujioke Emmanuel Eze. Based in Nnewi, his profile centres his work on faith, hope, spiritual growth and finding strength through difficult periods.

The title No Need To Look Back couldn’t fit that mission more neatly. BTR lists the winning Gospel track at 75 BPM, while CJFR’s own profile describes the release as focused on moving forward through faith.

LISTEN TO NO NEED TO LOOK BACK → CJFR PROFILE

SLATEKING

gurubeatz · Nigeria · Producer / Beatmaker / Engineer

Gurubeatz operates from the production side as much as the artist side. His profile moves between Afrobeats, Amapiano, Alté, trap and beat production, presenting him as a Nigerian producer comfortable crossing scenes rather than staying in a single box.

SlateKing lands squarely in the Amapiano lane at 113 BPM and gives that production background a July category win to go with it.

PLAY SLATEKING → GURUBEATZ PROFILE

FAT HOES

2Toke Breezy · USA

2Toke Breezy’s profile is pure DIY. Working through NEW SOUND RECORDS with his sister DIAMONDWOOD, he describes a setup where they record, mix, style, craft, perform and promote their own work.

That hands-on approach puts some context around July’s 124 BPM Trap winner. Fat Hoes isn’t arriving from a distant production machine — it’s attached to an artist who explicitly wants ownership of the full creative process.

LISTEN → MEET 2TOKE BREEZY

OH LORD COME DOWN

Nigerian singer, songwriter and entertainer MR NO JOKE keeps his own positioning concise: real music, real message, real vibes.

July’s winning record is Oh Lord come down, classified Reggae at 81 BPM. Even the title carries the directness suggested by the artist’s profile — no elaborate branding exercise required.

LISTEN → MR NO JOKE PROFILE

BLESSING

dbrytakeje’s written bio is only one word — “Music” — but the roles attached to the Nigerian profile say more: artist, videographer, visual artist and mixing/mastering engineer.

BLESSING takes July’s Drill category at 75 BPM. With a profile spanning both audio and visuals, this is another winner coming from a creator working across more than one part of the release process.

LISTEN TO BLESSING → ARTIST PROFILE

HOLD ME CLOSE AND DON’T LET GO

Behind lilithr3quiem is Oklahoma-based artist Emily Lammers, whose profile describes a world of gothic rock, alternative metal, vulnerability and dark romanticism — atmospheric foundations expanding into much larger emotional moments.

That’s what makes an Instrumentals category win interesting here. The 76 BPM Hold Me Close And Don’t Let Go sits inside a broader artist identity that isn’t remotely confined to “beatmaker” territory.

LISTEN → EXPLORE LILITHR3QUIEM

YOU’RE THE ONE WHO MAKES THINGS RIGHT

K’Mille Radio Edit · Ruby Hayes

Ruby Hayes, AKA K’Mille, has one of July’s broadest résumés: singer-songwriter, author and actress, with work spanning independent and major film and television alongside music touching inspirational, Christian, pop, electronic, club and other crossover territory.

A Jersey Club category win therefore feels less like a detour and more like confirmation of that range. The BTR version of You’re The One Who Makes Things Right is listed at 75 BPM.

OPEN THE WINNER → MEET RUBY HAYES

survival

dave-vibes identifies himself simply as a Nigerian Afro hip-hop artist. July pushes that story sideways into another Caribbean-rooted lane.

survival claims the Dancehall category at 108 BPM — another example of the winner list crossing genre borders rather than rewarding only the most obvious artist/category pairings.

LISTEN TO SURVIVAL → DAVE-VIBES PROFILE

KOSUNKI

King Pieford, AKA King P, comes from northern Nigeria and works across rap, singing and production. That combination gives him control on both sides of the microphone.

His July winner KOSUNKI sits in BTR’s Club Bangers category at 117 BPM — a category where the job description is refreshingly uncomplicated: make something people want turned up.

PLAY KOSUNKI → MEET KING P

FEEL THE GROOVE TONIGHT

Nikel’s profile moves between alternative rap and emo rap, framing the catalogue around a mix of introspection, swagger and a refusal to stay boxed into one style.

He also treats full-length DJ mixes as part of the bigger artistic picture rather than filler between songs. That matters here: Feel the groove tonight wins that exact category at 124 BPM, and Nikel’s own profile singles the track out as a call to connect and lose yourself in the groove.

START THE MIX → NIKEL PROFILE

HUNTER IN THE MIRROR

Dr. Jerr · A Hasman Production · ft. Magoo

Dr. Jerr’s biography reads more like a life file than a traditional artist paragraph. Raised in Flint, Michigan, she describes years of personal pressure, survival, multiple careers and a long relationship with writing and studios before publicly releasing music in 2025.

Her profile characterises the artistic identity as both savage and empowering. July’s result is the 75 BPM Phonk winner Hunter in the Mirror, credited with A Hasman Production and Magoo.

HEAR HUNTER IN THE MIRROR → DR. JERR PROFILE

SOMBRAS

Alex Belén’s profile describes an artist living in the spaces between acoustic balladry, folklore and modern urban music, with a bilingual catalogue and a strong focus on emotionally weighted songwriting.

Sombras gives that cross-genre approach a clear July result: the track takes BTR’s Latin Urban category at 89 BPM.

LISTEN TO SOMBRAS → ALEX BELÉN PROFILE

DJ BURA CPT — KUMNANDI

feat. George SA

George SA comes out of Cape Town’s Western Cape and describes himself as a young South African vocalist and musician working around Amapiano and Gqom — music explicitly intended to make people move.

His appearance on Dj Bura CPT Kumnandi feat George SA takes July’s Samples category at 124 BPM and brings a clear South African thread into the month’s winner list.

LISTEN → GEORGE SA PROFILE

SUN ON MY SKIN

SOL VANTA has perhaps the clearest sonic mission on the whole winner list: sun-soaked Ibiza house for pool parties, beach clubs, sunset sessions and late-night dance floors, built around Balearic house, vocal house and contemporary electronic music.

So when Sun on My Skin appears as July’s Electronic winner at 127 BPM, the title almost reads like a summary of the whole SOL VANTA brief. This one may be the cleanest artist-to-category fit of the month.

LISTEN TO SUN ON MY SKIN → EXPLORE SOL VANTA

INTERNAL AFFAIRS

atom-g · USA · Producer / Beatmaker / DJ

atom-g doesn’t sound interested in tidy categories. His profile jumps from projects inspired by dark arts and sci-fi thrillers through metal, jungle and other production experiments — essentially an invitation to enter the catalogue and see where it goes.

July provides at least one firm marker: Internal Affairs is BTR’s Grime winner at 114 BPM. For an artist whose profile is built around stylistic wandering, finishing this list in another defined genre feels about right.

LISTEN TO INTERNAL AFFAIRS → ATOM-G PROFILE