Myles Smith, Elmiene and Good Neighbours up for Brits Rising Star

Myles Smith, Elmiene and Good Neighbours person been announced arsenic the artists successful the moving for 2025's Brit Rising Star Award.

The award, successful concern with BBC Radio 1, highlights up and coming endowment selected by a sheet of manufacture experts.

The apical enactment volition beryllium announced connected 5 December, up of the Brit Awards connected 1 March, and volition instrumentality the crown from this year's recipient The Last Dinner Party.

Other erstwhile winners since the prize class was created successful 2008 see FLO, Sam Fender and Griff.

To beryllium nominated for the award, artists can't person achieved a apical 20 medium oregon much than 1 apical 20 azygous by 31 October.

Myles Smith says helium was "incredibly honoured" to beryllium nominated.

The 26-year-old from Luton was named arsenic BBC Introducing's Artist of the Year earlier this month and peaked astatine fig 4 successful the Official Charts with his breakout track, Stargazing.

Four years agone during lockdown, Myles started posting covers online and went viral successful 2022 with his acoustic mentation of The Neighbourhood’s Sweater Weather.

Since then, he's played Glastonbury, a virtual performance successful Fortnite and adjacent bagged a spot connected erstwhile US President Barack Obama's summertime playlist.

"I started playing pubs and unfastened mic nights erstwhile I was conscionable 12 and euphony rapidly became my mode of knowing the satellite and connecting with others," Myles says.

"This designation feels similar a reflection of that travel – the highs, the challenges and the unthinkable radical who’ve supported maine on the way."

It's been a large twelvemonth for Elmiene who, since being named 1 to ticker by BBC Radio 1 successful January, has released not 1 but 2 EPs.

The psyche vocalist from Oxford, who's antecedently collaborated with Stormzy, says he's "extremely grateful" to present beryllium nominated for the Brit Rising Star award.

"If I could enactment the feeling of being nominated into words, I would accidental it’s similar being wholly satisfied with a repast you bought and past uncovering retired it comes with dessert and a drink," helium says.

"Didn’t cognize it could get immoderate better."

Although helium was nicknamed "the Michael Jackson kid", Elmiene hadn't written a opus earlier his euphony GCSE and adjacent past didn't deliberation it was for him.

But aft a housemate posted a video of him singing successful his backmost plot successful 2021, he's blown up online with much than a cardinal monthly listeners connected Spotify and backing from legends similar Missy Elliot and SZA.

Completing the database of nominees is eastbound London indie duo Good Neighbours, formed of Scott Verrill and Oli Fox.

Their viral deed Home has been streamed much than 450 cardinal times astir the satellite - the astir streamed debut azygous globally from a caller creator this year, according to the Brit Awards.

Judges picture their euphony arsenic "bursting with anticipation and joyous abandon", inspired by the likes of MGMT, Passion Pit and Bleachers.

With Myles, the duo were besides included connected BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025 alongside the likes of Chappell Roan.

"The BRITs person ever been a immense imagination for some of america increasing up," Scott and Oli say.

"We started Good Neighbours purely for the amusive of it, truthful to beryllium up for an existent Brit grant astatine this signifier successful our vocation is the biggest honour."

The Last Dinner Party were named 2024's Rising Star and since past person gone connected to merchantability retired a circuit and merchandise their debut album, A Prelude to Ecstasy.

The Brit Awards volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded from the O2 successful London connected Saturday 1 March.