Playlist Contest: Who Will Buzz in 2014?

The New Year is upon us, and what a year 2014 promises to be. If 2013 was any indication, we will have an excellent year of jamming in store for us. But the question we would like to pose to our community of excellent music lovers: who will be the bands and artists that break onto the world scene this year? 

So here’s the deal: starting on January 6th, give us 7 tracks from 7 different new artists that you think will make a push across the world in 2014. Then, share your playlists. After two weeks (so until January 20th) the three most-shared playlists on Facebook and Twitter will be the finalists, from whom our jury will select the best playlist. The winner will receive a bottle of Champagne to celebrate the New Year. 

And, since the internet is notorious for never looking back, at the end of 2014 we will go back and see whose playlist was the most accurate (even if it wasn’t one of the finalists). If you turn out to be the clairvoyant, we will treat you to a huge dinner with champagne and cocktails to your heart’s content in December 2014. So start thinking about it now, the playlist contest goes live on January 6th. 

Playlist of the Year: The Hottest Tracks on Whyd from 2013

It’s that time of year again, when people frantically try to sum up the events, changes, and developments of entire year in blog posts, articles, and podcasts, and look forward to the year to come. There is no doubt that 2014 is going to be a monumental year for Whyd, and also for streaming music services in general. But now it’s time for one of our favorite things to do as music lovers, present the playlist of the year, featuring Whyd’s Tracks of the Weekend.

2013 was a good year for Woodkid, Flume, and Ryan Hemsworth, relatively new artists that have taken the world by storm with all three netting two Whyd Tracks of the Weekend each. It was also a year of bands returning to the scene, like the obvious Daft Punk but also Whyd favorites Metronomy, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Phoenix, and Vampire Weekend. New faces that are still nascent like Man Is Not A Bird, In The Valley Below, and Chamberlain also earned their spots on this playlist, and we look forward to great things to come from all of them.  

Without further ado, the best music from 2013 as determined by our global community of music lovers, PLEASE SHARE AND SHARE WIDELY: 

Get A Head Start on 2014

Are you one of those cool kids that knows about bands before they even exist yet? You went to Daft Punk’s flute recital in middle school? You knew Lana Del Rey when she was just Liz Grant? You hate the machine that churns out catchy pop and you feel robbed when you know that Lorde was on Universal the whole time? Yeah, us too. Luckily, thanks to London’s Music Like Dirt, you can get a peek at the music that will take the world by storm, next year. 

This playlist “The UK Blog Sound of 2014" is everything that mainstream music is not, but everything that it will be. The future sounds bright.