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Bishop Briggs
In January 2016 , Briggs released the single `` River '' and changed her recording name to Bishop Briggs to avoid confusion with a heavy metal band of the same name . The song was a commercial success . Shortly after its release , the song quickly made it to number 1 on Hype Machine 's Popular charts and reached number 1 on Spotify 's US Viral 50 and # 2 on the Global Viral 50 . It also received an Honorable Mention on Shazam 's predicted Songs of the Summer 2016 , which was featured in Billboard . As of May 2016 , `` River '' was steadily climbing the Shazam Future Hits charts . `` River '' climbed into the top 3 on the ' Billboard Alternative Songs chart and top 10 on the Billboard Hot Rock , Rock Airplay and Twitter Emerging Artist charts .
In January 2016 , Briggs released the single `` River '' and changed her recording name to Bishop Briggs to avoid confusion with a heavy metal band of the same name . The song was a commercial success . Shortly after its release , the song quickly made it to number 1 on Hype Machine 's Popular charts and reached number 1 on Spotify 's US Viral 50 and # 2 on the Global Viral 50 . It also received an Honorable Mention on Shazam 's predicted Songs of the Summer 2016 , which was featured in Billboard . As of May 2016 , `` River '' was steadily climbing the Shazam Future Hits charts . `` River '' climbed into the top 3 on the ' Billboard Alternative Songs chart and top 10 on the Billboard Hot Rock , Rock Airplay and Twitter Emerging Artist charts .