Up And Coming Artists: Our Artists To Watch For 2019

Now that 2019 is just around the corner, it’s high time to share our list of artists to watch! These are up-and-coming artists of various levels. However, they’re ones we really believe are going to make a splash in the music industry.

First of all, let’s have a look at what up and coming artists have been tipped by the likes of VEVO, YouTube, BBC, Ticketmaster, MTV, Amazing Radio:

Grace Carter, Dermot Kennedy, Easy Life, Slowthai, Jade Bird, Mahalia, Octavian, Sam Fender, SLANG, The Modern Strangers. We’ve actually been listening to quite a few of these artists in the office so we’re very happy to see them make these lists!

Music Gateway’s Artists To Watch

Everyone in the office pitched in for this one. We have decided to keep the list to a top ten of ‘upcoming artists 2019’.

See our top ten below and give their music a listen!

Slang

The Modern Strangers

Yonaka

Boy Azooga

Cassia

Sid Sriram

Stereo Honey

The Night Cafe

Grace Carter

Easy Life

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I’ve disregarded all other systems to use Gateway daily for pitching, storing music, managing metadata & sending music files to our sync clients

I've been a member for years now...I love the team, everyone is super genuine & trying to help artists navigate a really tricky area of the industry. Really appreciate what you guys do!

It’s been fantastic to join in the early days & watch it rapidly grow into an impressive music licensing hub. Equally, the team haven’t lost their personal touch!

They’ve really helped me to develop as an artist, pulling together all the aspects of my brand, the music, my personality to make it whole

Music Gateway reflects the reality of today, movement, freshness and technology at the same time. I love it!

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