THE UK BLOG SOUND OF 2014

Music Liberation is once again both pleased and privileged to have taken part in this years UK Blog Sound poll.

This year we are excited to reveal that two of our three chosen artists have made the final list of 16 - Sophie Jamieson and Mt. Wolf.

There are also two acts who we nominated last time out who have made this years one - Marika Hackman and Wolf Alice. Not that we like to blow our own trumpets or anything!

For those of you unaware here's some background on the Blog Sound poll:-

The Blog Sound Poll was first published in 2011. The concept of the poll wasn’t to criticise the established BBC Sound of list, but simply an experiment to see if UK music bloggers could come up with its own list of emerging artists that was more representative of their community and give the artists that were nominated some extra publicity. Indeed the idea was to compliment the BBC list in many ways by providing an alternative to compare and contrast.

The 2011 list contained some interesting alternatives to the BBC list including Mercury Prize winners Alt-J and Bastille who have found huge commercial success in the UK in 2013. The 2012 list was more similar to the BBC list with Haim being the runaway winners, followed closely by Chvrches.

The UK Blog Sound of 2014 poll is the biggest yet with 59 blogs each nominating their 3 favourite emerging artists. It has been retitled to give emphasis to the fact that it is a list created by UK bloggers, although the choices of music can come from around the world. This year however, 14 of the 16 most voted for artists are British.

The winning act and close runners up will be revealed on the 2nd of January in a short list of three.

This list contains a range of artists that have all received strong coverage from UK bloggers over the last year and can therefore be seen to be a good representation of what music bloggers have been enjoying listening to.

The music blogs that took part in the voting were:-