An Interval Records / EMI North Release

Opening with slick, synth-driven textures before bursting into a pulsating chorus, ‘2009’ is the euphoric new release from rising pop...

Positiva Records (Island EMI Label Group)

We’ve been seriously impressed with Paige Cavell’s powerhouse vocals since we first heard them back in 2019 when we featured her...

Launchpad+ / EMI North

Dilettante is the project of Leeds-born multi-instrumentalist, BC Camplight member and ‘Paul Hamlyn’ award-winning composer Francesca Pidgeon. We’ve been keeping...

Electrola/EMI

Following up on his anthemic ode to Scotland, 'Home' with fellow Scots Saint Phnx and the viral hit 'Heather In...

Electrola/EMI

We are pretty confident you’re aware of Scottish singer-songwriter Nathan Evans. Having triggered a worldwide sea shanty hype in 2020...

EMI/Chosen Music

Breakout British pop star and RotD favourite Caity Baser, once again, delivers another pop banger full of her usual honest,...

EMI/Positiva

To get your Friday started in the right way, we have this future dancefloor banger for you from singer Molly...

EMI/Chosen Music

It's already had a solid seal of approval from Jack Saunders at Radio 1 who gave the song its first...

EMI Records/Chosen Music

Regular readers will know that we are big fans of 20 year old Brighton artist Caity Baser, having featured her...

EMI Records/Chosen Music

Finishing our Ones to Watch 2023 for this week is the funny, loud and outspoken Caity Baser. The 20 year...

Chosen Music/EMI Records

20 year old Caity Baser has gained an enormous following in less than a year thanks to her catchy songs...

EMI Records

Continuing our Ones To Watch 2021 is Scottish newcomer Bow Anderson. The Edinburgh-born, London-based artist first caught our attention when...

Bohemian Vienna

Featuring on the latest Guinness ad campaign ‘Liberty Fields’, celebrating the pioneering Japanese women’s rugby team (watch here), is this...

Virgin EMI

With over 2bn combined audio and video streams and more than a million album sales, Spanish-German singer-songwriter Alvaro Soler has...

Virgin EMI

It’s been a remarkable year for our Record of the Year artist Lewis Capaldi who first broke onto the scene...

Virgin EMI/Mercury

French producer and composer Agoria, aka Sebastien Devaud, shapes a rather beautiful and captivating dose of stirring electronica in his...

Virgin EMI

We have been long-time admirers of Scotland’s Lewis Capaldi ever since we first heard his debut track Bruises last year....

Virgin EMI

It’s been well worth the wait, five years in fact, since the last solo release from Liverpool’s Miles Kane and...

Closer Recordings via Virgin EMI

OUTLYA, the clandestine purveyors of star-spangled pop glory, follow up a succession of brilliant taster tracks Heaven, Higher and The...

Virgin EMI

With another quality song to add to her impressive list of releases, Norma Jean Martine is an artist we’ve supported...

Vertigo / Virgin EMI

Norma Jean Martine first featured as an unsigned artist in our magazine's weekly Compass section in 2013. Originally from New...

Virgin EMI

Norma Jean Martine is an Anglo-American London-based artist we’ve kept an eye on since she first impressed us three years...

Virgin EMI

We first wrote about Norma Jean Martine in the Compass section of our weekly magazine back in 2013. At the...

Virgin EMI

Currently sitting comfortably in the Shazam Pre-Release Top 10, just added to the B list at Radio 1, B-listed too...

Universal Republic/ VirginEMI

If ever there were an artist who's shaping up to have a spectacular 2015, it's 23 year-old singer-songwriter James Bay. Currently...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

Teenage superstar DJ and producer Martin Garrix has been a regular favourite of ours since we first featured his anthem...

Virgin EMI

One of the great things we love about the sound that Kan Wakan make is that it's incredibly hard to...

Virgin EMI

Sometimes a big pop dance track comes along and smacks you straight between the eyes and ears, so resistance truly...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

2013's debut UK No.1 smash Animals put Martin Garrix firmly on the musical map, selling over 500,000 downloads in the process and bouncing around...

Virgin EMI

Brooklyn boys American Authors have already had this ridiculously-infectious track synced on major ad campaigns for Hyundai in the US and Centre...

Independent/EMI (Australia) / Just Music (South Africa) / Independent/AWAL (RoW)

Depressing as it is even to hear the words 'summer' and 'anthem' in such close proximity at this time of...

RAM / Virgin EMI

Wilkinson's knack for delivering massive drum and bass bangers straight from the club into the mainstream is in evidence again on Too...

Black Butter / Virgin EMI

Combining the talents of two of 2014's hottest new acts, Gorgon City and MNEK team up for their smash new...

Positiva/Virgin EMI Records

Swedish House Mafia's Axwell teams up with rising electro-house duo Sick Individuals and Californian vocalist Taylr Renee on I Am, a Beatport-topping...

Positiva/Virgin EMI

We probably aren't the first and almost certainly won't be the last to point out that the last time daytime...

Positiva / Virgin EMI

There was a time when the pinnacle of achievement at the age of seventeen was passing your driving test first...

RAM/Virgin EMI

Winding up for the release of debut album Lazers Not Included on October 28, RAM Records' Wilkinson drops his strongest single...

RAM / Virgin EMI

You may not know the name yet, but you will definitely recognise previous smashes Take You Higher and the Radio...

unsigned (world excl. Aus/NZ) / EMI Music Australia (Aus/NZ)

Going from bright new Australian dance act to Beatport No.1 in the blink of an eye, The Aston Shuffle round...

Virgin/EMI

Bastille AKA Dan Smith's second single on Virgin is another show of energetic pop writing, and coupled with a rapidly expanding...

Chemikal Underground

Glaswegian producer Julian Corrie, better know as Miaoux Miaoux, spent his teens transfixed with '90s trance, which nowadays manifests itself...

Stop Start/EMI (AU and NZ)/unsigned ROTW

It's Nice To Be Alive is a classic piece of songwriting that has seen Ball Park Music elevated atop the...

Lester Records (distributed by EMI Label Services)

Incredible Crowded House songwriting talent Neil Finn teams up with his wife Sharon and local friend Sean Donnelly to produce...

Parlophone/EMI

Two Against One is taken from Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi’s Rome project. The song recently premiered on...

RabbleRouser / EMI

Last is the follow-up to the Mercury nominated 2007 album The Bairns by The Unthanks (formally known as Rachel Unthank...

Peace & Riot/ EMI, Australia

One of the performances that impressed us most at the recent One Movement For Music was from Papa Vs Pretty,...

Hornblow/EMI

Ok Go’s third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky comes out next year, and this funky Prince-inspired track...

Blueberry Pie/EMI

Kate Walsh's 2007 album Tim’s House reached No.1 on the iTunes Album Chart while she was still unsigned, an achievement...

Makemine

Wichita's latest signing Lissy Trullie comes back from a successful showing at SXSW to play her first London dates this...

Stateside/EMI

'Can't Stop Moving is a track we first featured when , Sonny J was unsigned back in May last year....

EMI

Gobbledigook is the first taste of what's to come from Sigur Rós' fifth studio album,'Med sud i eyrum vid spilum...

EMI

Following on from Ready For The Floor, Hot Chip's first Top 10 single, their next single is everything we love...

Charisma/EMI

We've already featured Alphabeat's 'Fantastic Six' and 'Fascination', their Top 10 hit. Their next single '10,000 Nights' looks set to pick...

EMI

Camille's previous album ‘Le Fil’ sold over 500,000 copies across 30 countries and was also critical success. She won the...

EMI

We first featured this track from Make Model when they self-released it as a limited-edition debut single last summer. Just...

DFA/EMI

Hercules & Love Affair are a New York collective (described elsewhere as a 'euphoric disco project') headed up by producer...

EMI

This is the lead single from Hot Chip's follow-up to their Mercury Award nominated album The Warning. Made In The...

Angel/EMI

Washington DC rapper J Holiday is having one of the fastest-rising hits of the autumn Stateside with this stylish slow-jam....

EMI

Let Me Know is the next single from the forthcoming Róisín Murphy album Overpowered. It was co-written and produced by...

Angel/ EMI

An Emo/rock band from Chicago, Plain White T's knocked Rihanna off the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with this...

EMI

In the current stream of exciting electro-edged artists, the timing for Róisín Murphy's return seems inspired. With what we've heard...

Heavenly/EMI

The band's name comes from a Wilco lyric and the influence upon singer and guitarist Simon Aldred doesn't end there....

Nebula/EMI

Jay C, a Space Ibiza resident, has reworked the 1983 track from New York breakdancing and hip hop group The...

His Master’s Voice/EMI

London-based trio Brinkman release this as their first single since signing to EMI last year. It's out via the re-launched...

DFA/EMI

The first single to be taken from James Murphy's (aka LCD Soundsystem ) new album 'Sound Of Silver', North American Scum...

EMI/Tiny Consumer

Air Traffic's second single confirms why they were the subject of much attention over the past year on our message...

Gracious/EMI

We first featured Grace’s Stand Still back in April 2005 when they were unsigned, plus we also featured their brilliant...

unsigned/EMI Sweden

BWO are the biggest pop band in Sweden. The electronic pop trio was conceived by Alexander Bard (Army Of Lovers,...

EMI

First released in March (where it positioned at no32), we applaud the decision to re-release this single. No matter what...

EMI

Iron Maiden are back with their fourteenth studio album, A Matter Of Life And Death. This epic, progressive number is...

Angel/EMI

Camille has impressed a lot of people since her recent UK performances. A spot on Later with Jools Holland and...

EMI

This five piece signed to EMI last November to much subtle buzz ever since. There has been strong Radio 1...

EMI/Good Groove

Great timing taking Corinne's debut single proper to radio just as she topped BBC News Online's poll of tastemakers to...

EMI

2005 Staff picks, James Foley writes: At Record of the Day's Roundtable discussion at In The City in September, there...

EMI

Sigur Rós' third full release in the UK, Takk, has come out to resoundingly positive reviews. This is their first...

EMI

We've been huge Shelby fans since the wonderful album she made for Mercury including Your Lies and Leavin'. Her first...

EMI

A confession: we really didn't get Kevin Mark Trail at first. But we listened to his album with an open...

EMI

Full Moon is the standout track from Kevin's debut album, and the one that made us realise what a talent...

EMI

This is the lovely closing track from the forthcoming album by sometime Streets collaborator Kevin Mark Trail and it's quite...

Demigodz

We've been listening to Lamacq Live a lot recently and that's where we heard this. Some very enjoyable rapping over...

EMI Catalogue

Tipped on our messageboard ahead of Eurovision, then it won on the night, and was the clear highlight for us...

EMI

Fresh sound and beats and a big big hook from this new EMI signing, plus a lyric that recalls the...

EMI (Norway)

This was one of the biggest airplay hits of recent times in Norway and we think it has considerable international...

EMI

The opening track and second single from Skin's solo album is another one that won't please die hard rockers (even...

EMI

No soundclip today - Even at the height of their success, Roxette weren't remotely fashionable. Now they're probably less fashionable...

EMI

A very welcome return from Skin, ex of Skunk Anansie - surely one of our best singers and potentially a...

Toshiba-EMI (Japan)

(No soundclip today) One of the Japanese bands who played at SXSW. Sadly we missed the gig but we did...