HMV releases top 10 tips for 2009

 

(Thursday January 01, 2009 03:33 PM)

Music chain HMV has released its top 10 compilation list of "unknowns" tipped to break through this year.

 

In the past, the store has predicted the success of Franz Ferdinand, The Arctic Monkeys and Duffy.

 

HMV music buyer Rob Watson said: "There's perhaps not one stand out name that's on everyone's lips, as we saw with Duffy last year, but that's more than made up for by the sheer number and quality of the new acts in the frame.

 

"There's a bumper crop of fresh faces out there, and 2009 promises to be a vintage year for new music."

 

Signed to Polydor are new acts Gary Go, White Lies and American artists Keri Hilson and Lady Ga Ga. 4. Gary Go (Polydor)

 

Gary Go has already done shows in London, with summer festival appearances at Brighton's Great Escape, V Festival, Latitude and In The Park. White Lies, a three-piece, from Chiswick, west London, have been likened to Teardrop Explodes and Interpol.

 

R&B solo artist Keri Hilson features on Chris Brown's latest single Superhuman and has been writing music for other artists since 2001, including Britney Spears and Usher, while Lady Ga Ga already has chart-topping records across the United States and Europe.

 

Filthy Dukes is signed with Fiction/Polydor and started as DJ/promoter duo Tim Lawton and Olly Dixon who spun their DJ sets for Mylo, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem and played stages at Glastonbury and Bestival.

 

Other acts to watch out for, are blues/rock band The Answer from County Down who have been supporting AC/DC and signed with Albert Productions and five-piece alternative rock band based in London, Red Light Company of Lavolta Records/SonyBMG who have received comparisons with Arcade Fire and U2 and toured with Editors and soulful singer Warner Music's Lauren Izibor is predicted to make it big in Ireland as well as Britain.

 

Other Brit females include Little Boots signed with 679/Atlantic, from Blackpool, Lancashire, real name Victoria Hesketh and singer-songwriter from Camberwell, south London, Florence and the Machine, aka Florence Welch and her backing-singer collaborators, who is signed with Island Records and has been championed by the NME.

 

No Frankmusik? :blink: :(

Interesting to see they mention Keri Hilson, maybe she will actually relesea over here now.

 

No VV Brown, La Roux or Frankmusik is strange though

Interesting to see they mention Keri Hilson, maybe she will actually relesea over here now.

 

No VV Brown, La Roux or Frankmusik is strange though

I really hope Keri is given more of the songs she's been writing for othe rpeople, because at the moment (Except 'Energy') she seems to be giving all her best ones away :(

Great to see Keri and Gaga there (even if they spelt the second wrong!)

fancy including Keri Hilson without mentioning 'The Way I Are' :lol:

 

just a little bit more well remembered than Superhuman...

Keri is going to do jack$h!t here if they even bother. She doesn't have enough quality songs/right image to have any proper success.

 

As for the rest of the list; a bit $h!t. Some of it will do okay but lots of MoR mush that won't go far. Florence/Boots top picks there.

I thought it was Laura Izibor, not Lauren! Oh well I think shes great. Hope she has a really sucessful album in '09. I love her song 'Sunshine'. Don't know why they should confine her chances of sucess to Ireland and UK!

I thought it was Laura Izibor, not Lauren! Oh well I think shes great. Hope she has a really sucessful album in '09. I love her song 'Sunshine'. Don't know why they should confine her chances of sucess to Ireland and UK!

Is this her? and you're right it's Laura :lol:

 

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