Last year's winner Jessie J is out-and-out pop, and her debut album Who You Are has become the best-selling debut album by a UK artist.
She was forced to perform many gigs in 2011 sitting on a bespoke throne after breaking her foot, which required a bone transplant and forced her to pull out of a tour with Katy Perry in the US.
Next year she will be a coach and a mentor on the BBC talent show The Voice.
Other artists to have appeared in the top fives of Sound Of... lists over the years include Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Corinne Bailey Rae, 50 Cent, Joss Stone, Mika, Klaxons, Ellie Goulding, La Roux and The Vaccines.
Other artists to have appeared in the top fives of Sound Of... lists over the years include Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Corinne Bailey Rae, 50 Cent, Joss Stone, Mika, Klaxons, Ellie Goulding, La Roux and The Vaccines.
Clare Maguire : Flop no 1
Big-voiced singer-songwriter Clare Maguire came fifth in last year's list and won the Next Big Thing prize at the Q Magazine Awards last October.
The label then paired her with one illustrious (and expensive) songwriting partner after another, working for three years to hone her sound.
Her debut album Light After Dark entered the UK albums chart at number seven in February, but dropped out of the top 40 two weeks later. Just one single reached the chart, with The Last Dance spending two weeks in the top 30.
She is now working on her second album.
SOUND OF 2010
- Ellie Goulding
- Marina and the Diamonds
- Delphic
- Hurts
- The Drums
- Daisy Dares You
- Devlin
- Everything Everything
- Giggs
- Gold Panda
- Joy Orbison
- Owl City
- Rox
- Stornoway
- Two Door Cinema Club
SOUND OF 2011
- Jessie J
- James Blake
- The Vaccines
- Jamie Woon
- Clare Maguire
- Anna Calvi
- Daley
- Esben & the Witch
- Jai Paul
- Mona
- The Naked & Famous
- Nero
- Warpaint
- Wretch 32
- Yuck
