Month: December 2013

Future Hits: New Year’s Pop

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week’s Future Hits playlist features five new pop songs which should be among the first big British hits of 2014… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux92Eeaf5m75lOwuNrMnEY3r] Tracklisting: Neon Jungle – Braveheart The Vamps – Wildheart Little Mix – Little Me Union J – Loving You Is Easy Elyar Fox –… Continue reading Future Hits: New Year’s Pop

Future Stars: Sampha (Young Turks)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Sampha Sisay, known simply as Sampha, is an English singer, songwriter and producer with international connections and deep, soulful vocals. You should recognise his new single Too Much, as it's a solo rendition of his contribution to Drake's latest single, also called Too Much.… Continue reading Future Stars: Sampha (Young Turks)

Future Stars: Gorgon City (Virgin EMI/Black Butter)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. MNEK has been lining up for his big moment as an artist for years, and the new single by Gorgon City, on which he features, might just be it. Radio 1's music policy director Nigel Harding predicted that Ready For Your Love would be a future… Continue reading Future Stars: Gorgon City (Virgin EMI/Black Butter)

Future Stars: Chance the Rapper (Unsigned)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Chance the Rapper is 20-year-old Chancellor Bennett, who could have been one of the biggest new signings of 2013, but turned down an offer from Top Dawg Entertainment to remain independent. He attracted huge label interest this summer when his Acid Rap mixtape was… Continue reading Future Stars: Chance the Rapper (Unsigned)

Future Hits: The Last Hurrah

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week’s Future Hits playlist features five new singles by established pop acts which could be the last big hits of 2013… [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux8iiY2t0DVGHdLIrCGcBphD] Tracklisting: Jason Derulo – Trumpets Katy Perry – Unconditionally James Arthur – Recovery John Newman – Losing Sleep Robbie Williams ft. Lily… Continue reading Future Hits: The Last Hurrah

Future Stars: MT (Unsigned)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Remember in the mid-'00s when you could reel off an endless list of artists making fun indie-pop music? Patrick Wolf, The Pipettes, I'm From Barcelona, Long Blondes, CSS and so on. MT (which stands for Many Things) feel like they're from that era. Their… Continue reading Future Stars: MT (Unsigned)

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Future Stars: Kelela (Saint Records/Sony Music)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The BBC Sound of 2014 shortlist includes a mixture of acts with real commercial potential and "tastemaker" faves that the indie-ocracy will spend 2014 trying to convince us have commercial potential. American singer Kelela Mizanekristos is definitely in the latter camp, but that doesn't… Continue reading Future Stars: Kelela (Saint Records/Sony Music)

Future Stars: Style of Eye (Ultra/Sony Music)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The brilliance of I Love It is largely credited to Charli XCX and Icona Pop, but co-writer/producer Linus Eklöw (aka Style of Eye) must have played a big part too, if his exciting, fun and inventive new single is anything to go by. Kids features… Continue reading Future Stars: Style of Eye (Ultra/Sony Music)