The singer opened up about the process of rediscovering his joy on his first Billboard 200 No. 1 album, The Great Divide . Noah Kahan during the SXSW Conference & Festivals held at Venue 6 on March 16, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Travis P. Ball/SXSW Conference & Festivals Trending on Billboard Noah Kahan had done the thing. He went from playing bars and clubs in his native Vermont and the Northeast to blowing up with his third album, 2022’s Stick Season , which eventually climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart two years later, cementing his status as a arena — and now stadium — superstar. Explore See latest videos, charts and news But in a new cover story in Rolling Stone , the 29-year-old singer who famously plumbs the dark corners of depression, loneliness, heartache and bleak winters on his affecting, so-simple-they’re-complex folk pop songs, said all that attention almost made him walk away from it all. “Every cliché about music has proven so true for me,” he told the mag.…