So now you know What we learned from the BBC Sound of 2015

Talk of the Sound Of… poll being some kind of curse has (sort of) disappeared in the past couple of years. Following Michael Kiwanuka’s nearly made it moment in 2012, Haim and Sam Smith established themselves as commercial smashes in a matter of months. A couple of outliers remain - Ella Eyre and Banks stick out from 2014’s pickings - but this influential who’s who of new names has been fairly spot on in recent years.

With that, it’s worth taking the eventual top five with more than a pinch of salt. Winners Years & Years have already been tipped to the heavens, and in the lineage of inventive dance-pop, they take Disclosure’s baton with flying colours. There’s plenty to take from the rest of the top five, which springs up a couple of surprises, and there’s enough to read between the longlist lines. Above anything, 2015 looks set to be a more unpredictable year than ever - seemingly ‘obvious’ choices for the top five ended up missing out, and everyone’s favourite to win, James Bay, couldn’t match his BRITs Critics’ Choice award with a double gong.

Below, we round-up the lessons learned from the Sound of 2015.