Sound of 2006

The BBC recently got together a bunch of respected(?) critics and asked them what the ‘Sound of 2006′ will be – choosing from artists who have yet to receive widespread mainstream attention or commercial success in the UK.  A soul singer from the British city of Leeds topped the poll…

1. Corinne Bailey Rae
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (above)
3. The Feeling
4. Plan B
5. Guillemots
6. Sway
7. Chris Brown
8. Marcos Hernandez
9. Kubb
10. The Automatic

You can check them all out and listen to some tracks here.

(The Bravery, the Kaiser Chiefs, KT Tunstall, Keane, Franz Ferdinand,
the Scissor Sisters and 50 Cent all appeared in previous Sound of…
lists before hitting the big time.)

BBC Article

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