The BBC Unveils Their Sound of 2015 Longlist

December 1, 2014 Alan Cross 3 Comments

Around this time every year, the BBC issues a list of artists they think could have an impact in the following twelve months. To compile the 2015 long list, they survey 140-ish music industry types from the UK who will then cut things down to five on New Year’s Day. An overall winner will be named January 9.

This process has a decent track record. In the past, it’s uncovered Florence + the Machine, Haim, Sam Smith and someone called Adele. Here’s what they came up with for 2015.

George The Poet

James Bay

Kwabs

Låpsley

Novelist

Rae Morris

Raury

Shamir

Shura

Slaves

SOAK

Stormzy

Sunset Sons

Wolf Alice

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3 thoughts on “The BBC Unveils Their Sound of 2015 Longlist”

mikeadamson

December 1, 2014 at 10:37 am
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I’m partial to Wolf Alice myself.
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fouad

December 1, 2014 at 8:36 pm
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Thought Raury was interesting
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juepucta

December 2, 2014 at 12:20 am
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I am also in the Wolf Alice camp – i seem to remember they were in one of these lists last year though… i am all for taking your time, just saying.
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