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The Afterhours by Kyle Watson

DFTD · 16 February 2024 · Tech House

Mastered by Sam Wills

A Kyle Watson record that finished 23rd on Traxsource's tech house chart of 2024 and was played by 100 DJs, with more than two million streams.

Kyle Watson's The Afterhours came out on DFTD, Defected's club label, on 16 February 2024. By the end of the year it was number 23 on Traxsource's tech house chart, it had been logged in the sets of 100 tracklisted DJs, and the original had passed two million streams on Spotify. I mastered it in December 2023, two months before the release.

The Afterhours by Kyle Watson, DFTD cover art
Traxsource Top 200 Tech House of 2024
#23
DJs logged playing it on 1001Tracklists, from the sets that were tracklisted
100
Spotify streams of the original and extended mix
2M+

The evidence · chart positions

The climb

Every chart position on the same #1 to #200 scale. Best rank first.

  1. Top 200 Tech House of 2024Traxsource · Extended Mix
  2. Best Songs of 20241001Tracklists · Logged in the sets of 100 DJs that were tracklisted
December 2023

The master

I mastered it in December 2023, two months before the release.

The versions I worked on

  • OriginalDecember 2023
16 February 2024

Release day

DFTD released it on 16 February 2024.

Every release of the record

Kyle Watson - The Afterhours (Extended Mix), Defected Records.
2024 and since

Still going

When the year was totted up, it was in 2 year-end charts.

Also featured on

Tech House Mix w/ Kyle Watson (Live from The Basement)

Defected Records official YouTube mix. YouTube watch page returned refused-by-web_tools but the YouTube search snippet enumerates the tracklist and shows track 14 as 'Kyle Watson \u2013 The Afterhours'.

Spotifystreams of the original and the extended mix
2.2 million
YouTubeviews on Defected's video and the label audio
197 thousand

At a glance

Quick answers

Who mastered The Afterhours?
The Afterhours by Kyle Watson was mastered by Sam Wills.
How did The Afterhours chart?
The Afterhours reached #23 on Traxsource's Top 200 Tech House of 2024.
How many Spotify streams has The Afterhours got?
The Afterhours has 2.2 million Spotify streams of the original and the extended mix.
When was The Afterhours released?
The Afterhours was released by DFTD on 16 February 2024.

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