Step aside, Taylor Swift, and make way for this throng of incredibly talented and wonderful young female singer-songwriters coming out of the UK and Australia at the moment. Here are six of our favorites. Who knows, we might have the next Adele on our hands.

Gabrielle Aplin
Age: 20
Hometown: Wiltshire, England
Label: Parlophone
Album: English Rain
EPs: Home, Never Fade, Acoustic
Top tracks: The Power of Love, Home, Please Don’t Say You Love Me, Keep Pushing Me, Panic Cord
Awards won: #1 on the UK Singles Chart (The Power of Love)

Emma Louise
Age: 20
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia
Label: Frenchkiss
Album: none
EP: Full Hearts and Empty Rooms
Top tracks: Boy, Jungle, 1000 Sundowns, Bugs, Al’s Song
Awards won: Winner of the Song of the Year, Best Pop Song, and Best Singer-Songwriter Award at the 2011 Queensland Music Awards; Winner of Breakthrough Independent Artist at the 2011 Independent Music Awards

Birdy
Age: 16
Hometown: Hampshire, England
Label: Warner Bros.
Album: Birdy
EP: Live in London
Top tracks/covers: People Help the People, Skinny Love, 1901, Shelter, The A-Team, Just a Game
Awards won: Grand Prize and Under-18 Winner (Open Mic UK 2008)

Lianne La Havas
Age: 23
Hometown: London
Label: Warner Bros.
Album: Is Your Love Big Enough?
EP: None
Top tracks: Forget, Is Your Love Big Enough?, Don’t Wake Me Up, Au Cinema,  No Room for Doubt, Lost and Found
Awards won: 2012 Mercury Prize (nominated) and the BBC Sound of 2012 (nominated)

Lucy Rose
Age: 23
Hometown: Surrey, England
Label: Columbia
Album: Like I Used To
Top tracks: Bikes, Scar, Red Face, Middle of the Bed, Place, Shiver
Awards won: One of indie music’s breakout stars of 2012 (Vogue)

Emily and the Woods
Age: 23
Hometown: London, England
Label: Unsigned
Album: None
EPs: Eye to Eye, Emily and the Woods
Top tracks: Steal His Heart, Eye to Eye, More Like Me, Handwriting, Never Play
Awards won: Croyden’s Best Unsigned Music Act 2009

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WRITTEN BY – Emmy our Ad Sales Account Manager and Music Aficionado.