Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I considered featuring Kiesza (pronounced “Kaiser”) a few months ago when she was bigged up by “tastemakers” from Radio 1, Black Butter and Sony/ATV. However, Google brought up such atrocities as this performance. She appeared to be a cringey Canadian 2010s version of Lolly.… Continue reading Future Stars: Kiesza (Lokal Legend)
Future Hits: Dance Collabs
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week’s Future Hits playlist features five new releases from the genre that seems to have the best chance of chart success at the moment: dance music collaborations. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux9Ygnok4hrLLNgDIqOMnvk9] Tracklisting: DJ Fresh vs. Jay Fay ft. Ms Dynamite – Dibby Dibby Sound Duke Dumont… Continue reading Future Hits: Dance Collabs
Future Stars: Ms. D (Turn First)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. You might not know her, but Ms. D has already had a no. 1 hit. She featured on Heatwave by Wiley, which was no.1 in 2012, and she appeared uncredited on Chipmunk’s Oopsy Daisy back in 2009. Since then Ms. D (real name Dayo Olatunji) co-wrote Iggy… Continue reading Future Stars: Ms. D (Turn First)
Future Stars: DJ Snake (Columbia)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. There are a few different places you might have heard of DJ Snake, depending on your taste in music. Most interesting to me, he co-wrote three of Lady Gaga’s strongest ARTPOP tracks: Applause, Do What You Want and Sexxx Dreams. However, the French DJ… Continue reading Future Stars: DJ Snake (Columbia)
Future Stars: Becky Hill (Parlophone)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. We haven’t seen any real success stories from The Voice UK so far, but that might be about to change, in a rather unexpected way. Do you remember the stroppy teen from the first series, Becky Hill? She didn’t make the final, but after… Continue reading Future Stars: Becky Hill (Parlophone)
January’s Pop Meetup is TONIGHT!
January is supposed to be the most depressing month of the year… but you can make yours much more fun by coming along to tonight’s Pop Industry Meetup and making lots of new friends and music industry contacts! Hooray! We’ll be at Match Bar in central London from 7pm, entry is free and you’ll find… Continue reading January’s Pop Meetup is TONIGHT!
Future Hits: The Big Breakthrough
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's Future Hits playlist features five new releases which I think could finally give the artists their breakthrough hit. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux9jCdyKVvgtj_A8FH2zRFym] Tracklisting: Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne – Rather Be Foxes – Let Go for Tonight Sam Smith – Money on My Mind Chloe… Continue reading Future Hits: The Big Breakthrough
Future Stars: Wild Cub (Mom+Pop)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Wild Cub are from Nashville, but their music isn’t country. It’s indie-electro-pop. They’re currently on tour with The 1975 in the UK, and they’re set to release their debut album Youth later this month. It was the latest single Thunder Clatter which caught my attention, and… Continue reading Future Stars: Wild Cub (Mom+Pop)
Future Stars: Jess Glynne (Atlantic)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Jess Glynne features on what may be the first huge hit released in 2014, Rather Be by Clean Bandit. It's no.1 on Shazam's new release chart and top 20 on iTunes just on pre-orders! Although I was disappointed to discover that the cute Asian girl in… Continue reading Future Stars: Jess Glynne (Atlantic)
Future Stars: Lucy Hale (Hollywood Records)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. The Pretty Little Liars forming a goth-pop girlband may still be a distant dream, but one of the stars has just released a rather good single. Lucy Hale has been signed by Hollywood Records (home to Selena, Demi etc) as a country artist, and… Continue reading Future Stars: Lucy Hale (Hollywood Records)