- 2025-01-08
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MUSIC
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Myles Smith Performs “Nice To Meet You” on BBC Radio 1's Sound Of 2025
BBC Radio 1 announced British singer-songwriter Myles Smith has been voted into fourth place on BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025.
The award is given to rising artists with "the best chance of mainstream success" in the next 12 months.
Past winners include Adele, Sam Smith, Michael Kiwanuka, PinkPantheress and Haim.
The top five of Sound of 2025 will be announced in reverse order between January 6th and January 10th, 2025.
With the fourth place revealed, Myles Smith performed “Nice To Meet You” on BBC Radio 1's Sound Of 2025.
The song is featured on his sophomore EP “A Minute...” released last November, also including his smash “Stargazing”, which became the biggest-selling British single of 2024, and even featured on Barack Obama's end of year playlist.
In addition to BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025, he won the 2025 Brit Award for Rising Star.- Myles Smith told Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show, “It's been a wild a wild year, and I think that day was just a reflection of the entire year so far as just been highs and lows, but also just like, a crazy experience I could never, sort of like, predict or make up.”
He continued, “I feel like I've been writing a lot this last year, and I feel like I'm developing as an artist and understanding my sound more, and not playing as safe in some of the music that I'm hopefully gonna be putting out. And just again, unraveling more and more layers to who I am.” -
He added, “I've had in terms of like engagements with people who follow our music. There has been a lot of people who have, like, inspired me to continue writing, and I think during the shows, especially, less so like much over DMS, but more in person, there's been some really compelling and moving stories of people's own journeys and how the music, soundtracks, some of that. And for me, it's like they always say, like, Thank you miles for changing this or for saving this. And I always got to reiterate, like, I'm not doing any of it, I'm just pushing air, and honestly, it's the work of the individual who's changing their own lives. So I'm just super privileged that they chose me to sort of like, be in the background of that. But what it has showed me is that, like, Hey, I'm great at writing soundtracks for that.” - source : BBC Radio 1
