Angine de Poitrine, a microtonal math rock duo from Quebec, went from near-total obscurity to international virality in a matter of weeks earlier this yr.
The duo, made up of guitarist Khn de Poitrine and drummer Klek de Poitrine, who carry out in outsized papier-mâché masks and polka-dotted costumes, turned an internet sensation after a reside session with Seattle radio station KEXP went viral in February.
That KEXP efficiency has since amassed greater than 14 million YouTube views.
The band’s second album, Vol. II, the follow-up to 2024’s Vol. I, was launched on April 3, drawing protection from retailers together with the New York Instances and Pitchfork.
Vol. II has since surpassed 20 million streams on Spotify alone.
The album’s lead single, Fabienk, topped Spotify’s Viral Songs International chart and has ranked among the many 50 most Shazamed tracks worldwide.
Now, new information from Luminate has put numbers to the dimensions of the duo’s breakout.
Based on a Luminate weblog put up printed on April 28, Angine de Poitrine’s international weekly on-demand (audio + video) streams hit 11.2 million within the week Vol. II dropped (April 3–9).
That represented a 124% enhance from the earlier week (5 million OD streams), a 16,601% enhance from the primary week of 2026 (67,009), and a 603,198% enhance from the identical week final yr (1,855).
Based on Luminate’s information, the duo’s weekly OD streams crossed the 1 million threshold for the primary time throughout the week the KEXP clip was posted, although the video’s personal views usually are not counted in that complete.
The expansion has additionally been worldwide. A yr in the past, the duo’s viewers was concentrated virtually completely of their house nation; Canada led all markets in 2025 with 263,191 OD streams.
By April 9, 2026, america had overtaken Canada because the duo’s No.1 market, accumulating 8.7 million OD streams year-to-date, with Canada at 5.9 million and the UK at 2.3 million.
The information additionally reveals how quickly the duo’s music has unfold into markets the place they had been primarily unknown 12 months in the past.
Brazil accounted for fewer than 1,000 OD streams throughout all of 2025; by the primary 14 weeks of 2026, the nation had risen to sixth place globally with 1.1 million OD streams.
Mexico (1.3 million), France (1.1 million), Italy (1 million), Germany (969,400), Chile (786,700), and Australia (724,900) rounded out the highest 10 streaming markets.
The duo have been including US tour dates in cities that align with their streaming information – together with New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Philadelphia – all of which function amongst their high US streaming markets, based on Luminate.
Greater than 40 headline dates on the duo’s 2026 tour schedule are already offered out, based on a press launch issued by the band this week, with newly introduced exhibits stretching from August by December in cities together with Denver, Washington DC, Brooklyn (two nights at Brooklyn Metal), Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portland.
The worldwide run additionally features a one-night-only assist slot for Jack White at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre on July 14, and pageant appearances at The Nice Escape (Brighton), Fuji Rock Competition (Japan), Competition Worldwide de Jazz de Montréal, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Subject of Imaginative and prescient II, Finish of the Highway (UK), and Levitation (Austin), amongst others.
Angine de Poitrine’s streaming footprint throughout 10 nations and counting, and the velocity with which it has materialized, provides a case examine in how viral moments on platforms like YouTube can translate into sustained, geographically various listening exercise.
Why is area of interest music discovering a mass viewers?
Luminate’s weblog put up additionally factors to the corporate’s Artist + Style Tracker survey information as a possible clarification for the duo’s enchantment.
Luminate classifies Angine de Poitrine as indie rock in its database.
The survey discovered that 87% of US indie rock listeners stated they like to find new music and artists, in comparison with 69% of the overall inhabitants.
Some 73% of indie rock listeners stated they take pleasure in discovering music from different nations and cultures, versus 55% of the overall inhabitants.
And 51% of indie rock listeners stated their favourite artists are from different nations, in comparison with 42% of the overall inhabitants.
The information firm suggests the duo’s success could also be a part of a broader shift in rock music, noting that acts like Geese, Mk.gee, and Sleep Token level to rock followers more and more looking for out acts that push past the style’s established conventions.
Sleep Token, the nameless UK rock group, scored the most important US streaming week for a tough rock band ever in 2025 with their fourth album, Even In Arcadia, one other masked act that constructed a fanbase by mystique and on-line engagement slightly than conventional advertising and marketing.
The duo have achieved their breakout with out signing to a report label. They work with administration firm Spectacles Bonzaï.
Their 2024 debut, Vol. I, reached No.1 on Discogs and has turn into a collector’s merchandise, with followers paying as a lot as $600 CAD for the vinyl LP, based on the TSM press launch.
Vol. I and Vol. II are set for a worldwide bodily launch on vinyl and CD on Friday (June 12), distributed by a community of impartial companions that the band and their administration staff say “rigorously chosen the community of companions to make sure followers around the globe can get their palms on bodily copies in shops — with out signing to a report label” together with ATO within the US, Republic of Music internationally, F>A>B> in Canada (excluding Quebec), and Spectacles Bonzaï in Quebec.
For the reason that Luminate put up was printed on the finish of April, Angine de Poitrine have signed an unique worldwide publishing take care of Montreal-based impartial writer Third Aspect Music, which MBW profiled in its Trailblazers collection earlier this yr.
“Angine de Poitrine have actually perfected the mixture of unimaginable musicianship and idea, and on this enterprise, it all the time simply hits a bit extra satisfying when you possibly can convey the bizarre to the lots.”
Jeff Waye, Third Aspect Music
“We’re so excited to be a part of the Angine de Poitrine staff and get to work with the band and the Spectacles Bonzaï crew,” stated Jeff Waye, TSM Co-Founder and COO.
“As an organization that additionally has head places of work in Quebec, it’s a pure match to proceed to assist shine a global mild on the superb music that comes out of this area.
“Angine de Poitrine have actually perfected the mixture of unimaginable musicianship and idea, and on this enterprise, it all the time simply hits a bit extra satisfying when you possibly can convey the bizarre to the lots.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
