BBC reveal Sound Of 2025 longlist – featuring Chappell Roan after change to rules

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Mercury Prize winners. Check out the full list below.The coveted Sound Of list is the BBC’s annual rundown of rising artists that they believe are set for big things and have “the best chance of mainstream success” in the year ahead – with this year’s selections made by a panel of industry experts and artists that included Elton John, Dua Lipa, Jorja Smith, The Blessed Madonna and Sam Smith.Last year saw The Last Dinner Party crowned as winners, while the list has also championed the likes of FLO, Celeste, Stormzy, PinkPantheress, Adele, Lady Gaga, RAYE, The Weeknd, Blossoms, Sigrid, Billie Eilish, HAIM, 50 Cent and Lewis Capaldi over the years since it started back in 2003.Compiled from recommendations from “184 influential music experts, including artists, DJs, radio and TV producers, journalists, streaming experts and festival bookers”, the Sound Of 2025 list features a number of acts who have dominated 2024, and some who have been established long before that.Among them is pop pioneer Chappell Roan, whose acclaimed 2023 debut album ‘The Rise And Fall of a Midwest Princess‘ hit the Number One spot in the UK back in August and has enjoyed two Top 10 singles with ‘Hot To Go’ still riding high.

The huge slow-burn success she has enjoyed in 2024 has seen her rise to the rank of major festival headliner, set to top the bill at Primavera Sound 2025.It was previously a rule of the Sound Of list that an artist would not be eligible if they had been the lead on a UK Number One or Number Two album by the cut-off point.

However, this year that rule has changed so that an artist “cannot have had more than two Top 10 albums in the UK Official Albums Chart” by 30 September 2024 – enabling Chappell Roan to be listed.Asked about the.