Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Last week I attended the BBC Introducing Amplify conference in London, and one of the panels featured Annie Mac and her producer discussing how they choose music for their show. They tipped a band I’d only vaguely heard of, so I made a note to check them… Continue reading Future Stars: Superorganism (Domino Records)
Month: October 2017
Future Stars: Sabrina Claudio (Atlantic/APG)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Sabrina Claudio is a 21-year-old singer from Miami who could be a great pop star, though she’s a little busy being cool at the moment. She began posting YouTube covers while at school, and moved to LA in 2013 to pursue music. Developed by RedOne’s 2101… Continue reading Future Stars: Sabrina Claudio (Atlantic/APG)
Song of the Week: Rhys – Too Good To Be True
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. All my Songs of the Week are featured on my Top of the Poptastic playlist, along with the rest of my faves from 2017. Great pop music can come from anywhere in the world, but sometimes a new song comes along just to remind us that no-one… Continue reading Song of the Week: Rhys – Too Good To Be True
Future Hits: If you really love me, make an album about me
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. Tracklisting: J Balvin & Willy William ft. Beyoncé – Mi Gente Disciples – Jealousy Alma ft. French Montana – Phases Big Shaq – Man’s Not Hot Yxng Bane… Continue reading Future Hits: If you really love me, make an album about me
Future Stars: Yungen (RCA)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The days when SBTV could break a new act seem very distant, even with the resurgence of grime, but they can take credit for launching rapper Yungen, aka CJ Brooks. He first appeared on the channel in 2011, but it wasn’t til 2017 that… Continue reading Future Stars: Yungen (RCA)
Future Stars: The Aces (Red Bull Records)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. When you were a kid, did you form a band with your friends? Personally I was a member of innovatively-named duo the Spice Sisters (the twist was… we weren’t actually sisters… and we couldn’t sing). In 2008, four pre-teen girls in Utah formed the… Continue reading Future Stars: The Aces (Red Bull Records)