The 10 For 10 Contenders
Coming from the same underground grime upbringing as chart-toppers Tinchy Stryder, Taio Cruz and N-Dubz, 2010 could well be the year Tinie Tempah breaks into the mainstream...
An utterly unique chanteuse, Marina Diamandis hails from Abergavenny, Wales, and is blessed with the sort of voice you’d expect from that part of the world...
Drake – real name Aubrey Drake Graham – is a seriously talented Canadian rapper whose already trading verses with superstars including Jay-Z, Kanye and Mary J. Blige...
Delphic are a storming UK dance rock band from Manchester with an awesome live set – channelling the spirit of New Order in a big way...
Ke$ha (always with the $!) is a dirrrty new female star from the US who is currently all over US and European radio with her debut single Tik Tok...
The Drums are the stuff of indie dreams come true; a gang of handsome, skinny young men who make music so cool it makes you want to just, y’know, hang out and do, like, stuff?
Justin is a handsome young chap (only 15 years old!) from Canada, who was discovered on YouTube and introduced to the one and only Usher...
Owl City is really the mind of Adam Young, a by-all-accounts shy young talent from Minnesota, USA, whose had an insane 69.5 million plays on Myspace and he hasn't even started yet...
Rox is a class act – a classic singer-songwriter who conjures up memories of so many greats, from Amy Winehouse and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Eva Cassidy...
Ellie Goulding follows closely in the footsteps of 2009 successes Little Boots and Florence and the Machine, bringing her own unique slant to the solo-female-with-electronics genre...
Some Others That We Love...
The 18-year-old Scot is the complete package: the pop-writing craft of George Michael, the looks of a young Elvis and a soul-pop voice to die for...
With their stripped-down sound and no-nonsense aesthetic, the San Diego quartet are one to watch in 2010...
Electro-pop duo Adam Anderson and Theo Hutchcraft make lushly mournful electronic pop music with epic synth melodramas...
Sky is a young internet celebrity and art-glam-trash-pop teen who makes Lady Gaga look a bit, well, old and crap, really...
Stornoway are an English Indie Alternative Faux Pop band from of Oxford who craft hearty bloke-folk using banjos, violins and brass...
Nathan Thompson, better known by his stage names Giggs or Hollowman, is a British rapper from Peckham, South London...
The Joy Formidable possess gargantuan, clamorous bass and guitars, distinctive vocals and songs rooted in the vast lonely countryside of the Clwydian borders...
Darwin Deez is an NYC artist who's been creating a whole lot of buzz with his quirky brand of indie pop...
Twenty-two-year-old Pete O'Grady from Croydon, aka Joy Orbison, is one of the hottest dance producers around...
Brighton based agent provocateur L-Vis 1990 aka James Connolly can be found making bass fuelled dance music made for flying into war.