Jack Peņate - Second, minute or hour
Was a UK Indie No1 single
Matinee (debut album) was released on October 8th 2007 on XL recordings
Josh Rouse - Hollywood bass player
Is his newest single
Album: Country Mouse, City House
Has produced 8 albums to date in a career that began in 1998
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Current UK Number one single
Winner of last year's X-Factor competition
Album due for release on 12 Novemeber 2007
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
Hometown: Paisley (Scotland)
Album: These Streets
Sugababes - About You Now
Hit Single with regular airplay (recent No1)
Album: Change
Damien Rice - Dogs
Album: 9
The Independant - "These songs are emotional knots that seem to get tighter as Rice tries to unpick them"
Alicia Keys - If I ain't got you
Album: Diary of Alicia Keys
Song won a grammy award for the 'Best female R&B vocal performance' in 2004
Prince - Guitar
Is the leading single off the album ‘Planet Earth’
The album was released on July 15th thanks to it being given away as a freebie inside the ‘Mail on Sunday’.
Cardigans - Lovefool
Album: First Band on the Moon
Famously used as the lead single for the film 'Romeo & Juliet' (1996)
New Radicals - You get what you give
No 5 hit back in 1998
Wrote the song "The Game of Love" by Santana and Michelle Branch, which earned a Grammy in 2003
Ricky: He wrote Lovin’ each day for Ronan Keating you know (just for you ricky!)
Kate Nash - Foundations
Album: Made of Bricks
No 2 in the UK singles chart and No 1 in Croatia
Corinne Bailey Rae - I'd Like To
Was the fifth single to be released by Corinne
Album: Corinne Bailey Rae (self-titled)
Hard-Fi - Can't Get Along
Latest chart hit of Hard-Fi
Relates well to the prize
Album: Once upon a time in the West