VA - BBC Introducing Presents... Volume 1 (2015)

BBC Introducing Presents... Volume 1 is a double compilation album celebrating the biggest success stories from the award winning BBC Introducing platform. Released on the 16 March, the album serves as a definitive guide to some of the best new music of the past seven years. All of the tracks on the album were recorded live at BBC Introducing events around the UK including Maida Vale sessions and Introducing festival stages.

BBC Introducing Presents... Volume 1 features hit tracks from hugely successful acts who were all given a boost from the platform including: Bombay Bicycle Club, Rizzle Kicks, Twin Atlantic and Jake Bugg as well as some of the most exciting new and emerging acts in the UK today including Catfish and the Bottlemen, who will perform at tonight’s inaugural BBC Music Awards, and James Bay, who has just been been announced as the winner of the 2015 BRITs Critics’ Choice Award.

Cited as one of the best places for discovering new music, BBC Introducing prides itself on supporting unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar musicians. Big name artists including Royal Blood, Wretch 32, Ed Sheeran and George Ezra all received BBC Introducing support at the start of their careers.