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The Afterhours by Kyle Watson
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.

- 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.
- Top 200 Tech House of 2024Traxsource · Extended Mix
- Best Songs of 20241001Tracklists · Logged in the sets of 100 DJs that were tracklisted
The master
I mastered it in December 2023, two months before the release.
The versions I worked on
- OriginalDecember 2023
Release day
DFTD released it on 16 February 2024.
Every release of the record
- The Afterhours2 February 2024single
- The Afterhours16 February 2024single
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'.
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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