PinkPantheress has been named the winner of BBC Music’s Sound of 2022 Poll. Speaking on her win, she says:
“I am so happy to be chosen for the BBC Sound of 2022, to be put up against such amazing musicians has been an honour and I just hope that I fulfil the people’s expectations of me this year.”
The rest of the top 5 this year consisted of:
As another year of extraordinary new music comes to a close, the BBC Sound Of poll reveals it’s longlist of talent that is expected to make waves in 2022.
And per usual, most of the acts were featured on here quite some time ago… Here’s the longlist:
BBC Radio 1 will unveil the Top 5 daily from 2nd January 2022, with the winner announced on 6th January 2022.
Mimi Webb’s rise to stardom has been pretty meteoric over the last twelve months. There’s good reason for it too; this is some of the most exquisite ballad-pop you will experience. And that immense vocal… you won’t forget in a hurry.
“For me, this song really represents the feelings of loneliness, but in the way where we are all just people made up of a bunch of different things. You only have yourself to rely on for this, but then it comes to meeting someone who has all the same broken parts as you do – which turns into a messed-up love.”
Previous singles ‘Before I Go‘ amassed over 12.2 million Spotify streams and 600k YouTube views, while more recently ‘I’ll Break My Heart Again‘ is already on 1.5 million Spotify streams and 128k views.
