Wikipedia Draft:Who To Blame

Who To Blame are a Portuguese-Finnish electronic DJ and production duo consisting of João Pedro Cunha da Silva and Juhani Artturi Strid. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by famous artists and by releasing independently with AWAL. The EDM-pop duo achieved a breakthrough with their 2019 song "Fly With Me", which ultimately led to it being added to a few Spotify editorial playlists, such as Weekend Hangouts.

Ever since the duo's establishment in March 2018, Who To Blame have crossed the mark of four million streams and more than one million listeners, which contributed to them being named one of the biggest EDM duo's in finnish soil.

On the 9th of December, the duo got their first major label release with MrSuicideSheep '' under found/red records, with their new single "Talk To Me".

Who To Blame announced their second release through their social media with MrSuicideSheep, called "Your Call" soon to be released in March, 2020.

As of October 2020, Who To Blame have released singles with Chill Your Mind, under Warner Chappel Music publishing, with their most noticeable track being "Erase Me" which crossed one million streams on Spotify.

Recently, the duo signed a deal with popular german music distributor, recordJet, as a "first class" artist and has gathered mainstream attention due to the diversification of the deep house genre.

2018: Formation
The duo joined forces in March of 2018, but they started working together in September of 2017 releasing at the time a collaboration, "Holdin' On", later released under the duo's umbrella. Since the release, both liked the workflow and decided to create Who To Blame. "Holdin' On" has gathered 600,000 streams, their third most streamed single.

2018: Losing Myself & Golden - EP
On March, 7th 2018, "Losing Myself" was released marking the first track to ever be released under Who To Blame's umbrella gathering 100,000 streams in total, so far. With a successful first release, the duo kept on giving and released an EP "Golden - EP" under Quartzo Records sublabel, Enigmatic. Both songs received positive reviews among producers and friends that knew their work at the time of release.

In July of 2018, "Broken Love" was released to the public marking the first boom of the duo's career as "Broken Love" surpassed over 300,000 streams.

2019: AWAL
On the 3rd of January, 2019, Who To Blame had been accepted to be part of AWAL's set of artists. With this change, the duo redistributed every single song through AWAL making it the catalog exclusive to Kobalt's new platform for independent artists.

Following the move, the duo released their most acclaimed song yet "Fly With Me" which has been supported by Spotify's own playlist, "Weekend Hangouts". "Fly with Me" totalizes one year since first arriving on the playlist. Ever since the release, the track has gathered over 900,000 streams and one million streams worldwide, making it the second most streamed single of the duo!

Who To Blame's AWAL catalogue includes an album "73" that covers every single AWAL release that has been put out summing 9 tracks with a total of two million streams.

2019: Frequency / AEI Group Ltd
On the 15th of November, the duo released "Honest" with Frequency, a popular youtube channel with over 600,000 subscribers that focus on copyright free music. "Honest" holds the record of the duo for being the track that got playlisted officialy by Spotify more times so far with four editorial picks.

"Honest" got added to "Ensisoitossa", "New Music Friday Suomi", "Pop til arbejdet" and "Music for a Workday".

"Honest" has crossed 200,000 streams on Spotify, 46,000 on Youtube and over 250,000 over all platforms.

2019-2020: MrSuicideSheep / The District
On the 9th of December, Who To Blame released "Talk To Me" with MrSuicideSheep, under "found/red records", arguably the biggest release, at the time, of the rising duo making them one of the few artists who released House music on the channel.

"Talk To Me" has crossed more than 100,000 streams on Spotify & Apple Music and 181,000 views on Youtube.

2020: Major support from Spotify & good reception
2020 has brought some great achievements towards the duo. From being playlisted by Spotify one year straight without ever leaving the playlist, to headlining "New Music Friday Suomi", "Suomi EDM" and more Spotify editorial playlists, to being supported by the biggest curators in the world - House Nation, Chill Nation, Loud Kult, Selected. & many more!

The duo also headlined a finland journal that got distributed across the whole nation resuming Juhani's career and how a duo from different countries has managed to achieve success mostly working online.

Who To Blame's singles have charted on iTunes in Denmark, Turkey, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Japan, Thailand, Germany, South Africa, Australia and Switzerland. '''

Members
João Pedro Cunha da Silva was born on July 3, 1998 in Porto. He currently resides in Portugal.

Juhani Artturi Strid was born on January 22, 1998 in Oulu. He currently is a residential DJ at a popular local club, "Basso Club". He has also opened for several famous DJ's including Jay Hardway.