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)
Category: Future Pop
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)
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)
Future Hits: It’s Christmas!!
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week’s Future Hits playlist features five new Christmas singles being released to capitalise on the festive market… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux-d3t9zgK7dUGhJV3OHObGv] Tracklisting: Kelly Clarkson – Underneath The Tree Leona Lewis – One More Sleep Susan Boyle with Elvis Presley – O Come, All Ye Faithful The… Continue reading Future Hits: It’s Christmas!!
Future Stars: All About She (Disturbing London/Atlantic)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. If you've heard a song on the radio recently that you thought was a lost Mis-Teeq classic, chances are it was the new single Higher (Free) by All About She. They started out as a two-man British production team, and became a proper pop… Continue reading Future Stars: All About She (Disturbing London/Atlantic)
Future Stars: James Newman (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Born with a boring name, James Newman picked James Valentine as his pop pseudonym. However, when his younger brother John became famous, he quickly changed it back. Could the Newmans be the new Bedingfields? Although John may have had the first hit, James has… Continue reading Future Stars: James Newman (Unsigned)
Future Stars: Awolnation (Red Bull Records)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Here's a heart-warming tale for Christmas: A few years ago a band called Under The Influence of Giants made a brilliant album, which no-one really noticed. Luckily, talent usually finds a way to the top eventually, and UTIOG lead singer Aaron Bruno is now… Continue reading Future Stars: Awolnation (Red Bull Records)