MTV Brand New 2016 official shortlist announced

MTV have unveiled their shortlisted artists for MTV Brand New 2016 with Emporio Armani Diamonds. There are ten really exciting acts that have been picked, and they will all be celebrating at a launch event, alongside last year's winners Krept & Konan, plus host Ella Eyre, at Tape London next Tuesday, December 1st.

From December 1st, the acts will go head to head in a public vote, battling out the toughest of competition until the all-conquering winner is revealed in February 2016. Fans can vote for their favourite artist on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook mentions using #MTVBrandNew followed by the artist name and track progress live via the leader board at www.mtv.co.uk/brandnew. My vote goes to Jack Garratt, what about yours?

Anne-Marie - “It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told, a good shocked. I’m proper happy about it. I think I got nominated in the MTV Brand New Top 10 because I’m 3x world time karate champion and I’d probably just beat everyone up if they didn't put me in it. They were all scared!”

Blossoms - “It’s an honour to be nominated for MTV Brand New Top 10. We’ve gone from a scaffolding yard to here. It’s absolutely amazing, we’re very pleased!”

Bonkaz - “It feels unreal to be nominated for MTV Brand News Top 10, Krept & Konan are from my area, we grew up literally 5 minutes from each other, last year they obviously won this, and I’ve seen them up for other awards but nothing they did before had that kind of urgency, they put so much into this and it paid off. The way they promoted it, they really went in hard with the campaign. They kept reiterating vote for us it’s really important, and to now be up for it too is really quite something.”

Jack Garratt - “Thank you MTV for putting me in the Brand New for 2016 list. It's such a great honour! I watched MTV religiously as a kid, so the 14 year old in me is very excited right now.”

Nimmo - “It feels amazing and really unexpected to be picked for MTV’s Brand New. We have been hibernating doing our album, so it feels amazing to be recognised quite quickly.”

Ratboy - "Being chosen is wicked, I really can’t believe it - thank you MTV!”

Rationale - “It’s absolutely amazing to be picked for MTV Brand New List 2016, I remember getting the call from my manager, I had to tell him to repeat it a few times, I was so taken back! I’ve seen people who have been given the honour and it’s absolutely amazing to be in the same kind of league”

SG Lewis - “I’m so honoured to have been chosen for the MTV Brand New shortlist - MTV was massively influential in forming my musical taste whilst growing up and to now have my music championed on such an iconic platform is pretty crazy to me. The list of amazing artists that have been featured in previous years makes me pretty excited to be included - massive thanks to MTV for supporting my music.”

Sigala - “It’s amazing to be apart of MTV Brand New 2016, to see the people in the past who have been nominated and to see what they're doing now is crazy.”

WSTRN - “It feels crazy to be in the Top 10 of MTV Brand New. We all grew up on MTV! 2015 has been a rollercoaster but in a good way, it’s been really fun. Something new has happened every day. In the beginning of 2015 if you were to have asked all of us where would we have been in a couple of months, none of us would have said we would be sitting here.”