The influential tastemaking BBC list is compiled by 180 influential tastemakers.....interesting. The list has previously forecast well with Jessie J topping last year's list. Other previous winners include Adele, Ellie Goulding, Corinne Bailey Rae and Keane.
Its a mixed bunch with artists from most muscial genres represented. The winner and top five atcs for 2012 will be announced on January 5 2012.
We have hip-hop represented by MC Dot Rotten. The female pop trio Stooshe, blues singer songwriter Jamie N Commons as well as Harlem N.Y represented by rapper and singer Azealia Banks and rapper A$AP Rock.
British soul acts number in three; Michael Kiwanuka and Lianne La Havas, both from London, and Ren Harvieu, who hails from Salford.
UK guitar bands Spector and Dry The River are listed, along with Brooklyn-based indie-pop band Friends and Swedish dance duo Niki & The Dove. US singer-songwriter and rapper Frank Ocean completes the top 15.
The "Tastemakers (Radio DJ's, music presenters and producers, magazine and website editors etc) compiling the list are asked to name three new acts from any genre that fit the following criteria....there is always criteria...
They must not have had a UK top 20 single or album by 13 November 2011 and must not have already been well-known to the UK public, for example by featuring in the final stages of a TV talent show or already being a member of a successful band. Goodnight Robbie Williams.
