Julia Meladin

In the organizer's words:

Julia Meladin is a phenomenon: "Angst", the newcomer's debut single, has had more than 1.3 million streams in a very short space of time and the 20-year-old singer-songwriter already has more than 287,000 followers on TikTok. Why? Because Julia Meladin writes songs that not only speak to her, but also to many people from the heart, that touch you deeply and won't let you go any time soon.

Born in 2003 in a small village in Brandenburg, Julia came into contact with music at an early age. Queen and NDW were on at home and her father played and wrote songs, whereupon his daughter soon did the same. First Julia played guitar, then she wrote her first songs at the age of eight: "They were songs about love in fake English - but I couldn't help it, I just had to write them." With her first band, Julia not only plays covers, but also her own songs, which she produces in music lessons, before deciding to release a song excerpt for the first time via social media.

One of them: "Angst" - a song about your own worries and how they sometimes take over you. Created at home, in Julia's room, at the piano with a view of the Brandenburg countryside, the song became a viral hit. The first snippet that Julia released had 100,000 views overnight. "I received so many comments from people who felt the same way that I kept making new versions of the song with the stories of my followers. It turned into a real series."

Julia Meladin has been posting her own tracks on her TikTok channel since 2021. Unadorned, direct songs about urgent topics such as disappointment and loneliness, exclusion and social coldness or the pressure to perform and the search for one's own identity. Like the track "Angst", which she produced entirely on her own and which immediately went viral and drew the attention of all the major record companies to the singer, songwriter and musician. After signing with Sony Music, she cemented her status as one of the most exciting German newcomers with her official debut single "10 von 10", followed at the end of 2023 by the pop-punk earworm "Beispiel daran" as another pre-release single from her debut EP. Julia Meladin currently has more than 5.9 million total streams of her songs and over 287k followers on TikTok, almost 262k monthly Spotify listeners, more than 73.5k Instagram followers and almost 76k YouTube subscribers.

"Maybe it's just a few words for you, while it destroys the self-confidence of a few others, yes," is the 20-year-old's message to anyone who thinks they can get a few likes and clicks for body-shaming and laughing at the expense of others. "Many people in my community also feel insecure about beauty trends", explains Julia Meladin, "not just on social media, but also in real life. I like the fact that I can use my reach to point this out and perhaps encourage people to treat each other with more respect."