UKMix Sound of 2012 (#1 REVEALED!)

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Postby UKMusicLova » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:02 pm

01. Lana Del Rey

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Elizabeth "Lizzy" Grant (born 21 June 1986), better known as Lana Del Rey, is a singer-songwriter from Lake Placid, New York, United States. Del Rey is known for embellishing her songs and music videos with an eerily nostalgic vibe heavy on Americana themes, including images of surfing, Coney Island, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe. She has also listed a large number of her artistic influences, including Allen Ginsberg, Elvis Presley, Britney Spears, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Antony and the Johnsons, actor and filmmaker John Waters, artists Mark Ryden and Marilyn Minter, and photographers Juergen Teller and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Grant released her first professionally produced body of work in 2010, an EP entitled Kill Kill, as Lizzy Grant via Five Points Records with producer David Kahne. It was available for purchase on iTunes for a brief period before being withdrawn for unknown reasons. Soon after, Del Rey released a self-titled collection of songs, Lana Del Rey, for electronic download. In June 2011, Del Rey was signed with Stranger Records and issued the “Video Games” single, and in October 2011 she signed with Interscope Records. Her next album, Born to Die, is set to be released worldwide on 31 January 2012 under Interscope.
Her album 'Born To Die' has already peaked at #1 in the UK selling over 100k copies in its first week. It also debuted at #2 in the US and charting well worldwide! Lana is definitely set to be the star of 2012!
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Postby Noahh » Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:41 pm

Predictable #1! :P

She's great though!

My top 3 was:

1. Frank Ocean
2. Emeli Sandé
3. Lana Del Rey
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Postby nickf1 » Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:11 pm

meh at that no.1

my top 3

1 Emeli Sandé
2 Loick Essien
3 Delilah
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Postby HBIC » Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:18 pm

Knew it. Haters can hate 8-)

1. Lana Del Rey
2. Azealia Banks
3. The Weeknd
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Postby Pompeii » Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:50 pm

Fantastic #1!

1. Lana Del Rey
2. The Weeknd
3. Rita Ora

Frank Ocean would've been my #4.
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Postby HBIC » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:08 pm

RudeBoi wrote:Fantastic #1!

1. Lana Del Rey
2. The Weeknd
3. Rita Ora

Frank Ocean would've been my #4.
Didn't know you liked The Weeknd :o
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Postby Pompeii » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:11 pm

jamesssxD wrote:
RudeBoi wrote:Fantastic #1!

1. Lana Del Rey
2. The Weeknd
3. Rita Ora

Frank Ocean would've been my #4.
Didn't know you liked The Weeknd :o
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Postby HBIC » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:17 pm

RudeBoi wrote:
jamesssxD wrote:
RudeBoi wrote:Fantastic #1!

1. Lana Del Rey
2. The Weeknd
3. Rita Ora

Frank Ocean would've been my #4.
Didn't know you liked The Weeknd :o
The Knowing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Initiation >>>>>> High for This >>>>>> The floping
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Postby Pompeii » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:19 pm

Lana Del Rey >>>>> your faves

...to end this :lol:
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Postby HBIC » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:22 pm

RudeBoi wrote:Lana Del Rey >>>>> your faves

...to end this :lol:
I can deal with that 8-)
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Postby Lemo » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:01 pm

Lana Del Rey for LIFE!!!!!! :D
"you act like nothing really happened but it meant the world to me"
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Postby SholasBoy » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:18 pm

Also meh...

My top 3 were:

1 Little Mix
2 Yasmin
3 Labrinth


Never mind :lol:
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Postby CrazyCrazy » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:18 pm

Lana was always going to be #1! :lol: :D
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Postby IshibaXMakuza » Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:28 am

I'm not even sure who any of those people are. Most likely the biggest newcomer act of the year will be someone who we haven't even heard of yet.
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Postby mrjuvenille » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:14 am

^idk, something i've noticed every other year recently is that new bubblin' artists starts gaining momemtum the latter parts of the previous year before blowing up the next year.

Ke$ha reminds me of that.
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Postby Blondini » Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:24 pm

Yasmin didn't even make top 5? :o

My 3:

1 LDR
2 Yasmin
3 StooShe
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Postby urbanmusik » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:42 pm

I love all the artists in the top 5, it's a pity my top 2 didn't make it. Here's my votes below:

urbanmusik wrote:01 Yasmin
02 Maverick Sabre
03 Frank Ocean
04 Emeli Sandé
05 Delilah

06 The Weeknd
07 Lana Del Rey
08 Rita Ora
09 StooShe
10 Azealia Banks
11 Labrinth
12 Loick Essien
13 Little Mix


That was incredibly tough, I love all of the top ten. Labrinth is great too, but I feel that his solo work that we've heard so far hasn't quite lived up to his productions. 'Earthquake' is awesome though. The only one's I'm not that interested in are Loick Essien and Little Mix.
Can we find out the positions of the artists who missed the top 5? I really wanna know how close Yasmin was.
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Postby mrjuvenille » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:05 am

but with Yasmin, she wasn't gaining momentum. so it's not surprising...to me at least.
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Postby UKMusicLova » Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:38 am

Rest of the list:

6. Yasmin
7. The Weeknd
8. Rita Ora
=. Little Mix
=. Delilah
11. Maverick Sabre
12. Labrinth
=. Loick Essien
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