Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. My weekly playlist features five tracks I predict will be future hit singles in the UK. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux-UeEN3qwoYtWOAiSA3-o53] Tracklisting: Ellie Goulding – Army Jason Derulo – Get Ugly DJ Mustard ft. Travi$ Scott – Whole Lotta Lovin’ twenty one pilots – Stressed Out Birdy –… Continue reading Future Hits: Ladies, let your hurr down
Month: January 2016
Future Stars: X Ambassadors (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. You may not know the name X Ambassadors, but you probably do know one of their songs. They collaborated with Jamie n Commons and Jay-Z on the 2014 track Jungle, which appeared everywhere from a Beats advert and the Brazil World Cup TV coverage… Continue reading Future Stars: X Ambassadors (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope)
Future Stars: Alan Walker (Sony Sweden)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Because the Scandinavians have adopted Spotify en masse as their method of music consumption, they have a larger influence on the streaming service’s global charts than you would expect for countries with small populations. This is great news, as they also produce much of… Continue reading Future Stars: Alan Walker (Sony Sweden)
Popping the Question: What is the future of the TV talent show?
This week sees the first episodes of both the last BBC series of The Voice and the last ever series of American Idol. The future of Britain’s top singing show, The X Factor, also looks uncertain. 2016 will give us one final year of the big music contests in the familiar scheduling pattern, but from… Continue reading Popping the Question: What is the future of the TV talent show?
Song of the Week: Cam – Village
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I spent the Christmas holidays listening to two very different albums: Art Angels by Grimes and Untamed by Cam. Both highly enjoyable, the former is obnoxious and ridiculous, while the latter is classy and uplifting. The songs on Untamed show many of the different… Continue reading Song of the Week: Cam – Village
Future Hits: And I remember thinking…
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. My weekly playlist features five tracks I predict will be future hit singles in the UK. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux_juRnNOkFuzslSW31_ZiXb] Tracklisting: Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods Zara Larsson – Lush Life Shawn Mendes – Stitches Selena Gomez – Hands to Myself X Ambassadors – Renegades… Continue reading Future Hits: And I remember thinking…
Future Stars: Isaac Gracie (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The winner of the BBC Sound of 2016 poll will be announced this week, but as the idea of Future Pop is to be ahead of the times, here’s a tip for 2017. I think Isaac Gracie has a strong chance of appearing in… Continue reading Future Stars: Isaac Gracie (Unsigned)
Future Stars: Lukas Graham (Warner Bros)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Lukas Graham is a band fronted by Lukas Graham Forchhammer. They formed in 2011 and became one of the biggest Danish acts, with two quadruple platinum albums and six no.1s. In 2012, I picked out their heart-wrenching single Better Than Yourself as an international… Continue reading Future Stars: Lukas Graham (Warner Bros)
Stars of 2016: The Winners Announced!
Happy New Year! It’s time to reveal the results of the Stars of 2016 poll that you’ve all been voting in for the past few weeks. Basically, it’s like the BBC Sound of 2016 poll without the boring stuff: Only pop stars allowed! The votes were spread widely between the 10 nominees, but two singers… Continue reading Stars of 2016: The Winners Announced!