The BBC Sound Of 2014 Top 5 will be revealed one at a time in the first week of January over at the BBC News website (and, likely, everywhere else too), with the winner being announced on 6 January 2014.
In the meantime, videos from three of the 15 can be found below the longlist which, in alphabetical order, looks like this:
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Chance The Rapper
Chlöe Howl
Ella Eyre
FKA twigs
George Ezra
Jungle
Kelela
Luke Sital-Singh
MNEK
Nick Mulvey (pictured)
Royal Blood
Sam Smith
Sampha
Say Lou Lou