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After bringing you our Future of Music 2025 list last month, we’re now taking a look at exciting Future 25 artists from our Rolling Stone global partners
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Last month, we brought you our Future of Music 2025 list, featuring 25 of the most innovative artists from Australia and New Zealand we expect to achieve big things this year and beyond.
But what about the rest of the world?
Our Rolling Stone partners also compiled their own Future 25 lists as part of our global Future of Music series, including Rolling Stone UK.
Find out more about three of their chosen artists – Jordan Adetunji, Chloe Qisha and Pozer – below!
Check out Rolling Stone UK‘s full Future 25 list here.
“Everything has moved so fast, it’s hard to appreciate it,” Jordan Adetunji told Rolling Stone UK in his Future of Music cover feature, reflecting on a whirlwind 12 months. “But sometimes I get flashbacks or if I get a quiet moment to think, some things come back, and it feels amazing. I know at some point I’m gonna sit down and think about all the amazing things that have happened so far.”
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Between the release of new mixtape A Jaguar’s Dream and his last project, 2023’s Rock ’N’ Rave, his progression has been monumental. “Kehlani”, his biggest single to date, recently went platinum, having racked up over 370 million Spotify streams and spawned a remix featuring the US pop star it was named after.
Adetunji signed a landmark deal with 300 Entertainment and Warner Records UK, received a nomination for Melodic Rap Performance at the Grammys, and has now been included in Rolling Stone UK’s Future of Music list for 2025.
The cohesive sound he’s landed on a dense, futuristic kind of melodic R&B that suffocates you with intense kick patterns and heavy, lingering keys. His is a unique vibe with roots in US club music, hyperpop and drill.
Across just one EP and a few singles, Chloe Qisha has presented a startling collection of hooky, funny, pristine pop songs. On The Chloe Qisha EP from 2024, Qisha showed an immediate knack for writing music that traversed the entirety of pop, past and present, from the Olivia Rodrigo-influenced pop-punk strut of “Evelyn” to the Caroline Polachek-like “Sexy Goodbye”.
On her second EP, Modern Romance, out this summer, you can hear the influence of ABBA weighing heavy on the stunning “21st Century Cool Girl”, while The 1975 and Talking Heads can be heard on the irresistible funk-pop of “Sex, Drugs and Existential Dread”. She describes the dual EPs as a “sister act”, eight songs that present a strong-minded and abundantly talented new pop star.
“I’m just a big fan of all things pop,” she tells Rolling Stone UK in her Future of Music cover feature. “I like trying on all the different hats, because it mixes things up, and I don’t think they sound too dissimilar from one another — it’s a different child but always the same mum and dad. I’ll always be like that, to be honest. There will probably be a country song a few iterations down the line, because why not?”
“I’ve never heard anyone else do my sound. Jersey drill is already its own thing, but UK Jersey drill is mine,” Pozer tells Rolling Stone UK in his Future of Music cover feature. “Drill is one of the foundations of my category, but I’m too outside of the box — you couldn’t call my music just one sound.”
Meshing together the moody atmosphere of UK drill and the upbeat, bouncily syncopated kick formulations of Jersey Club (which emerged from Newark, New Jersey, in the early 2000s) has allowed Pozer to appeal to a wide audience. With “Kitchen Stove” and “Malicious Intentions”, he became the first UK rapper in history to have their first two singles chart in the Top 40.
In February, he beat big-name nominees like Central Cee, Headie One and K-Trap to win Best Drill Act at the MOBO Awards, and his position at the forefront of Rolling Stone UK’s Future of Music list for 2025 represents another landmark achievement.
“Right now, it’s for the taking in terms of who comes in and holds the belt of ‘This is the genre for us now,’” he told us of the future of UK Jersey drill. “I don’t feel like the UK has a steady genre where it’s like ‘This is what we listen to, this is what we take in.’ I’m tryna get my style there, believe. That’s the main goal.”
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