As seen at Eurosonic Festival – click here to find out more. Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Back in 2010, I first wrote about a British-Zimbabwean indie-pop artist signed to Island called Tinashé Fazakerley, known simply as Tinashé. I saw him live, enjoyed his album (you can see a… Continue reading Future Stars: Rationale (Best Laid Plans/Warner Brothers)
Category: Future Pop
Future Hits: Ladies, let your hurr down
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
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)
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!
Future Pop: Stars of 2016
Over the past two weeks I’ve featured 10 artists I believe could be the breakthrough pop stars of 2016. I don’t think pop acts get enough attention in the ones to watch lists from the BBC, Brits, MTV etc, especially considering that they have a tendency to become the biggest selling artists. To redress the… Continue reading Future Pop: Stars of 2016
Stars of 2016: Zayn Malik
You might say that Zayn Malik is too famous to be considered a new artist, but he’s yet to release his debut single, and as it stands we have no idea of the quality of his music. Despite that, he’s almost a dead cert for success in 2016, which undoubtedly qualifies him for a list… Continue reading Stars of 2016: Zayn Malik