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Teenage soul singer Adele tops BBC News website's talent poll, Sound Of 2008
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Teenage soul singer Adele has come top of the BBC News website's Sound Of 2008 poll to find the most promising new music talent.
Almost 150 of the UK's top music critics, music magazine editors and broadcasters – including BBC Radio 1's Jo Whiley and BBC Radio 2's Dermot O'Leary – took part in the poll by naming their favourite new acts.
Nineteen-year-old Londoner Adele went to the same performing arts school as Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua and Kate Nash.
She was followed in second place by fellow soul singer Duffy.
Talking about her rapid rise to fame, Adele said: "I'm really excited... I hope it's always about the music and I hope I don't become scandalous and it takes me an hour to get out of my front door."
She added: "I hope I always enjoy it, and I think I will. I'm having a laugh."
Paul Rees, Editor of Q magazine, said it was "refreshing to hear something different" after being inundated with "identikit bands who want to sound like The Libertines".
"That Adele also has a voice that could stop traffic makes it doubly so," Rees said.
The BBC News website Sounds Of... poll, now in its sixth year, has a strong track record picking out music stars who have gone on to chart success.
Chart-topper Mika came top of the BBC's Sound Of 2007 poll and Corinne Bailey Rae was voted top of the poll in 2006.
Other acts who have appeared on the lists in previous years include the Klaxons, the Kaiser Chiefs, KT Tunstall and Razorlight.
Adele says she discovered her voice by singing along to Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald CDs before going to the Brit school for performing arts in Croydon at the same time as Kate Nash.
She said soul singers would do well in 2008 because the music was "believable".
"I think Duffy's wicked and I think people believe me and my music, so I think that's why we're at the top."
Duffy, who has a classic soul sound, has drawn comparisons with Dusty Springfield.
Garage pop duo The Ting Tings and Scottish indie group Glasvegas – both of whom have been championed by music weekly NME – are in third and fourth places respectively. Oxford punk-funk pioneers Foals complete the top five.
Notes to Editors
BBC News website's Sound Of 2008 Top 10
1. Adele
2. Duffy
3. The Ting Tings
4. Glasvegas
5. Foals
6. Vampire Weekend
7. Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
8. Black Kids
9. MGMT
10. Santogold
Sound Of... previous acts
Sound Of 2007: Mika (1st), The Twang (2), Klaxons (3)
Sound Of 2006: Corinne Bailey Rae (1), The Feeling (3), Guillemots (5)
Sound Of 2005: The Bravery (1), Bloc Party (2), Kaiser Chiefs (5), KT Tunstall (6)
Sound Of 2004: Keane (1), Franz Ferdinand (2), Razorlight (4), Joss Stone (5), McFly (6), Scissor Sisters (7)
Sound of 2003: 50 Cent (1), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (3), Dizzee Rascal (5)
The music pundits who took part in the BBC News website's Sound Of 2008 poll named their favourite three new acts with the choices tallied up to compile the list.
Acts were ineligible if they had previously scored a UK top 20 single or were already famous, for example appearing on a national TV talent show or enjoying success in a previous band.
Full list of music pundits who took part in the poll is available.
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