If you haven't already noticed, DNCE are living it up right now and the success just keeps growing and growing.
First their debut single 'Cake By The Ocean' has already gone platinum in the US and they are climbing up the UK chart after climbing to a new peak position of number 9.
As well as the single, DNCE were part of Grease Live which has been watched by millions of people worldwide, they have been touring around Europe with gigs in The Netherlands, UK, France and Germany.
The band has recently announced that they will be one of the performers at this years Billboard Music Awards.
To finish of their success, they feature on Haliee Steinfeld's song 'Rock Bottom' and they will be going on tour with Selena Gomez.
Whenever a song has Sean Paul featured in it, you know you will be getting on the dance floor and busting some moves.
2016 has seen Sean Paul collaborate not only with one British act but two! On the 5th of February, Jay Sean released his song 'Make My Love Go' and brought in Mr Paul to add to this fantastic Dance/Pop track which managed to enter the UK Chart at number 1.
It's not only Jay Sean who has worked with Sean Paul this year, Little Mix have recently released their album track 'Hair' and called upon Sean Paul to add something different to the single. As the ladies have been touring the UK on their 'Get Weird Tour', this was the perfect time to release a new single.
All we need now is a new Sean Paul album and our year will be made!
It took a while to choose our final 6 groups to feature in this post but here are the groups we have chosen for our Big In 2016 (Groups).
1. Chasing Midnight (United Kingdom)
We have written about these guys a lot over the last year and their cover videos are still very popular! Whether taking on Zayn Malik's 'Pillowtalk' or Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself, the talent of Chasing Midnight always comes through.
The group is always working on new songs, cover videos and entertaining things for their fans to enjoy.
We just hope the group releases a song for fans to buy soon!
2. Union J (United Kingdom)
The last couple of months have been very interesting for Union J. With the announcement of George Shelly leaving the group, Josh presenting the ChartShow Awards, Jaymi working on a performing arts school and JJ working on a film, fans can be excited to see their favourite members working on solo projects but what about Union J?
The group have announced they are working on their 3rd album and it is rumoured they will announce a new member in the next couple of months.
Their last album 'You Got It All' did not chart as high as their debut album but did showcase amazing songs and a new direction. Such songs as 'Midnight Train', 'Yolo' and 'Central Park' are stand out tracks and not to forget the two top 10 singles from the album 'Tonight (We Live Forever)' and 'You Got It All'.
We feel that 2016 will be Union J's year and its about time for them to break other international markets too!
3. Sweet California (Spain)
Sweet California are a girl group from Spain. So far they have had 2 albums and have shared stages at music festivals with such artists as The Vamps, Iggy Azalea and Union J and had a song called Wonderwoman (featured on our blog) with American Rapper Jake Miller.
After changing a member of the group, the ladies are back with a re-release of their album 'Head For The Stars 2.0' as well as a new single 'Good Lovin'.
The ladies sing in both English and Spanish and have what it takes to be international superstars.
4. Brofaction (Austria)
Brofaction is a brothers-duo from Austria. Nico (21) and Laurin (17) are not only fantastic singers but also write music and play various instruments including piano and guitar. They have been surrounded by music since they were both young and Laurin was on Team Lena on The Voice of Germany Kids.
In 2015 they released their summer feel-good song 'Back at the Playground' which in our opinion, should be the summer hit for 2016 too and have been touring around Austria and Germany to promote their music.
But it is not only Austria and Germany who get to enjoy Brofaction's talent. There are now rumours that the guys are in talks to fly to the UK to record new songs as well as perform live gigs.
Until then, be sure to get your copy of 'Back at the Playground' from iTunes and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music!
5. All Saints (United Kingdom)
For anyone who is too young to remember the song 'Never Ever', we recommend you Youtube it. Any way, that was then and now the ladies of All Saints are back with new singles, an upcoming album and a tour!!!
All Saint's first single from their upcoming album 'Red Flag' (out 8th April) is the Shaznay Lewis written 'One Strike'.
They have already performed on Alan Carr's chatty man and will be headlining their first live gig at KOKO in April. To follow this performance will be the 'Red Flag Tour' that takes place in October. During the tour they will perform some tracks from the new album as well as some of the greatest hits including 'I Know Where It's At', 'Pure Shores' and 'Black Coffee'.
There second single from 'Red Flag' is called 'One Woman Man' which is currently available on iTunes along with 'One Strike'.
6. Feurherz (Deutschland)
Someone call the fire fighters because its getting hot in here! German boy band Feuerherz have recently celebrated their 1st year as a band. The German Schlager/Pop band have been touring around Germany and Austria and enjoying the success of their single 'Verdammt Guter Tag' (Damn Good Day) and album 'Verdammt Guter Tag' as well as their multilingual Christmas single 'Merry Christmas' which was sung in German, English, Italian and Dutch.
The guys are currently on tour again and working on their second album.
With everyone excited about eating loads of Easter chocolate eggs, what more would you need? Well how about the announcement of Nick Jonas' new album?
That's right, Nick Jonas has finally confirmed that he will be releasing his new album 'Last Year Was Complicated' on the 10th June. The anticipated follow up from the 'Levels' singer's last album 'Nick Jonas' released the first single from the new album called 'Close' feat. Tove Lo on the 25th March. As well as this feature, Nick has other songs featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Big Sean.
Nick will be touring with Demi Lovato, who he runs a record label with, and he will be performing some of the new songs from the album as well as his older hits such as 'Jealous', 'Levels' and 'Chains'.
A couple of weeks ago we posted our blog about the male artists we thought would do well in 2016. Now it's time for the female artists:
1. Missy Elliott
Known as the 'Queen of HipHop and Rap', Missy Elliott has made a return to the spotlight after a few years away.
It was only when Pharrell Williams announced that he was working on new music with her and the announcement of their single 'WTF (Where They From)' that the who world started getting excited. She has since announced the release of her next single 'Pep Rally' which was announced on the day of America's biggest sports event, Super Bowl.
Fans are now hoping for a new album which has been a long time coming as her last studio album 'The Cookbook' was released in 2005 and we are sure Missy will be featuring all over other artists tracks this year!
All we can say is:
WELCOME BACK MISSY ELLIOTT!
2. Fleur East
What a year 2015 was for Fleur East. She released her debut single 'Sax', Her debut album 'Love, Sax and Flashbacks' and has performed to millions of people all around the world.
Fleur's single 'Sax' has not only entered charts around the world but has also been used in TV adverts such as Asda (UK) and on the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Australia advert.
Not only that, it was also announced that Miss East is working on her first fashion collection with Lipsy London.
She also returned to The X Factor UK stage to perform with Little Mix a mashup of 'Sax' and 'Black Magic'.
2016 has already started off well for Fleur with a performance of her new single 'More and More' on the National Television Awards, flying out to LA to film the music video and also enjoying continued success of 'Sax' being played on radio stations worldwide, what more could this talented singer need?
Fans are now waiting for a tour to be announced and to find out what Fleur will do next.
3. Delta Goodrem
Whether you know the name Delta Goodrem because of her music, acting, being at the theatre or as a coach on The Voice Australia, you are going to know that she is a very talented lady.
She has recently finished performing in the stage production of Cats and supported Ricky Martin on his tour in Australia.
In 2015 she returned to the UK to promote her Australian Platinum selling single 'Wings', where she performed at G.A.Y London.
Delta is now working on her 5th studio album and we expect big things from the songwriting and singing sensation who shot to worldwide fame singing her single 'Born To Try' on Australian soap Neighbours.
4. Vanessa White
Vanessa is 1/5 of The Saturdays and after the news of the ladies taking a break to focus on solo projects, it is Vanessa who is the first to release solo music first!
The first single to be revealed was 'Relationship Goals' and with the help of Aaron Renfree (former S Club Junior's member and The Saturdays backing dancer), an amazing and creative video was made!
Vanessa followed up 'Relationship Goals' with two more songs 'Don't Want To Be Your Lover' and 'Nostalgia'. All three songs as well as her song 'Lipstick Kisses' featuring Wretch 32 feature on her debut EP 'Chapter One' which was released on the 19th February 2016.
Vanessa has now announced that her first live gig will be on Wednesday 16th March 2016 at Cargo London.
5. Karen Harding
With her song 'Say Something', Karen Harding had one of the biggest summer tracks of 2015 and to help promote the track, Karen has performed on many TV shows and at many festivals including Birmingham's Fusion Festival.
In 2015 Karen also featured on other artist's tracks and has had some great chart positions to add to her music cv.
2016 has seen the release of her next single 'Open My Eyes' and we are very excited for a full album to be released and hopefully more amazing live performances!
6. Louisa Johnson
She is the winner of The X Factor UK 2015 and she blew everyone in the audience away with her stunning soulful vocals.
She has been touring the UK with The X Factor Tour and her debut single 'Forever Young' entered the UK at number 9.
This lady can sing anything thrown at her and we think there is going to be a lot of surprises when she releases her album later this year.
Ever since Zayn Malik announced he was going to be working on his solo music, the question in everyone's mind was will he be successful or a flop. With his song 'Pillow Talk', Zayn has shown that he has what it takes to be successful as a solo artist.
The song entered number 1 in the UK, Australia and the US and the video has had over 83 million views on Youtube. The song is also more successful than any song he released with One Direction.
It has been announced that Zayn's first performance of 'Pillow Talk will be on the 17th February on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon which is expected to be viewed by millions of fans around the world.
The appearance will also be used to remind fans that his album will be released on the 25th March which is exactly one year after Zayn told everyone that he is leaving One Direction.
We the hype around the world right now focusing on Zayn Malik, we think 2016 will be a very good year for him.
2016 is finally here and now it is time to make a prediction about who are going to be successful this year.
We have taken our time but have finally chosen who are top 6 male artists will be for this year!
1. Nathan Sykes (UK)
2015 was a very big year for Nathan Sykes. The ex The Wanted member released two singles 'Kiss Me Quick' (entered the UK Chart at number 14 and number 1 on the US Dance Chart) and 'Over And Over Again' (entered the UK Chart at number 8 and US Dance Chart at number 17).
Nathan toured the UK in a 6 date sold out tour and also promoted his music in the US performing in schools and other places around the US.
To finish off the year Nathan performed his song 'Over And Over Again' on one of the X Factor UK live shows.
A special version of the song which features American superstar Ariana Grande was released in Earlier January 2016 and it has been announced that Nathan will support Little Mix on their 2016 UK 'Get Weird Tour'.
2. Shawn Mendes (Canada)
If you haven't heard the name Shawn Mendes, where have you been? This Canadian singer/songwriter has taken the music charts by storm and is also looking like the artist to steal Justin Bieber's Popstar crown in 2016.
Shawn released his single 'Stitches' in May 2015 and since then, radio stations all over the world can't resist a play or 50 a day!!! The single recently went number 2 in the UK but could soon be the single to knock Justin Bieber from the top spot.
Shawn's album 'Handwritten' really showcases the talent Shawn has and with songs like 'Something Big' and 'Life of the Party' featuring on it, it is a must buy!
Shawn has recently teamed up with Camila Cabello (Fifth Harmony) to record the song 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' which was added to the track list to his album rerelease 'Handwritten Revisited'.
Keep your eyes peeled to find out what Shawn Mendes does next in 2016.
3. Aston Merrygold (UK)
As 1/4 of JLS, Aston travelled around the world and performed to thousands of people. Once JLS announced they were going to split up, everyone just waited for the announcement that Aston was going to have a solo career.
On the 23rd September 2014, Aston signed to Warner Bros Records where he is currently working on his debut solo 'Showstopper' due for release in May 2016.
Astons' debut solo single 'Get Stupid' caused a debate with UK fans about whether he will get to release his album after the single entered the UK Chart at number 28. This was a big shock as everyone expected a top 10 for the track. Although it wasn't as successful in the UK, the track has gone Platinum (selling over 70,000 copies) in Australia after entering the charts there at number 10 with the help of a performance on The X Factor Australia and Sunrise Australia. The second single 'Show Me' was released in Australia and excitement for the album is building.
With a Bruno Mars and Michael Jackson sound, we recommend you start following Aston Merrygold on his journey as a solo artist in 2016!
4. Jahméne (UK)
He came 2nd on The X Factor UK to James Arthur, had a successful debut solo album and has amazing soulful vocals. Jahméne (Douglas). It did go quiet from Jahméne but in September 2014 he announced that he had signed to Moonshot Music where he will release his second solo album due to be released in 2016.
The first new track to be released since the debut album was 'Down For Love' which was released on 20th November 2015 and had a black and white video featuring Misha B and Lisa Mafia.
Are you ready to be taken to church and back by Jahméne and his vocal talents?
5. Jake Miller (US)
Jake Miller is a rapper/singer from Florida. He started releasing his tracks independently from 2011. Jake is now signed to Warner Bros and he is currently working on his album which will be his first full length album since his debut 'Us Against Them'.
In 2015 he was featured on Spanish girl band Sweet California's single 'Wonderwoman' where he has a solo rap section. He flew to Spain to promote the single there.
6. OMI (Jamaica)
When anybody talks about OMI, the first thing that people will think of is his debut single 'Cheerleader'. The song was released in 2014 (2015 in the UK) and is a global success where it went to number 1 in most charts worldwide.
Following 'Cheerleader', OMI travelled around the world to promote the single before releasing his second song 'Hula Hoop'.
OMI's debut album 'Me 4 U' was released in October 2015 and we are sure it will also be a success very soon!
OMI has recently released the video to the 3rd single from the album ('Drop In The Ocean') and he will be touring all over the world to perform for his dedicated followers and fans.
