Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. It was very difficult to choose my Song of the Week as I’ve spent the week listening to the new BØRNS album, Dopamine, and I think it’s brilliant from start to finish. Sometimes when an artist has a distinctive style, the album tracks can… Continue reading Song of the Week: BØRNS – American Money
Future Hits: The dreams that are mine anyway
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. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux__E6rXvWylvg1I9OUNj6Vr] Tracklisting: Aurora – Half The World Away Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime Jess Glynne – Take Me Home Sigma & Rita Ora – Coming Home Sam Smith – Drowning… Continue reading Future Hits: The dreams that are mine anyway
Future Stars: Billie Marten (Chess Club/RCA)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. There’s a new 16-year-old female singer called Billie. When this last happened, in 1998, it was the start of a brief but brilliant pop career. Sadly, the chance that the 2015 Billie will release anything as poptastic as Because We Want To or Day… Continue reading Future Stars: Billie Marten (Chess Club/RCA)
Future Stars: Mura Masa (Polydor)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Alex Crossan, aka Mura Masa, may be only 19 but he’s wasting no time in reaching for his musical goals. The Guernsey producer and occasional singer has been scooped up by Polydor after accumulating millions of plays on Soundcloud and YouTube. It just sounds… Continue reading Future Stars: Mura Masa (Polydor)
Music Vid Fest: The future of the music video
Yesterday I attended the second annual Music Vid Fest at the BFI Southbank, held ahead of today’s UK Music Video Awards. It’s a day of panels and keynote speeches on the subject of music videos, featuring some of the top directors, commissioners and others from the industry. Although I’m not involved in video production day-to-day… Continue reading Music Vid Fest: The future of the music video
Song of the Week: Asami Zdrenka – Strange and Beautiful
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The third and final video in Asami Zdrenka’s Cover Trilogy is here! Although I already featured her back in August, I had to pick Strange and Beautiful as my Song of the Week as it’s my favourite in the series. After tackling electro-pop and… Continue reading Song of the Week: Asami Zdrenka – Strange and Beautiful
Future Hits: Can I be your +1?
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. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux9RGfJFYL02qYYkpxPUTip6] Tracklisting: Ariana Grande – Focus Martin Solveig ft. Sam White – +1 Charlie Puth – One Call Away Pia Mia – Touch Fall Out Boy ft. Demi Lovato – Irresistible… Continue reading Future Hits: Can I be your +1?
Future Stars: Lawrence Taylor (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. When TV talent shows became huge in the early 2000s, one of the main criticisms levelled at the winners by bitter musicians and grumpy music fans was that they hadn’t “earned” their success by playing “the toilet circuit.” The idea was that success shouldn’t… Continue reading Future Stars: Lawrence Taylor (Unsigned)
Future Stars: Zayn Malik (RCA)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week the 1D wind-down officially began, as the band played their last full gig before their impending hiatus, at the unremarkable venue of Sheffield Hallam Arena. The Sun’s opportunist exposé of the supposed tensions between band members was clearly mostly made up of… Continue reading Future Stars: Zayn Malik (RCA)
Top of the Poptastic: The best singles of October 2015
Here are my top 20 singles of October, compiled into a poptastic playlist for your enjoyment. I hope you discover some new favourites! I’ve also updated my Spotify playlist, which features all the songs from my monthly charts of 2015 (or the ones available on Spotify, at least), and you can listen to that here.… Continue reading Top of the Poptastic: The best singles of October 2015