Every year, the BBC presents a list of artists who won't necessarily be the best artists of the next year but who, the network predicts, will be the most successful, the most listened-to. As predictors go, their track record isn't bad. HAIM won last year; Adele and Jessie J have won previous years. And this year's just-unveiled list features plenty of artists who should be familiar to Stereogum readers -- Chance The Rapper, FKA twigs, Kelela, Sampha, Sam Smith, Chlöe Howl -- as well as plenty of others who I've never heard of. Below, check out the list, as well as the BBC's video that quickly introduces all of the artists.
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This year's longlist:
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Chance The Rapper
Chlöe Howl
Ella Eyre
FKA twigs
George Ezra
Jungle
Kelela
Luke Sital-Singh
MNEK
Nick Mulvey
Royal Blood
Sam Smith
Sampha
Say Lou Lou
(via BBC)
The BBC will announce a winner 1/10.
