Glastonbury Festival has shared the longlist of acts who have made it through to the latest stage of their Emerging Talent Competition 2025.
This year's competition, which is supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation, launched back in January, offering new UK and Ireland-based acts in any musical genre the chance to compete for a coveted slot at Glastonbury 2025.
The winners of this year's competition will also receive a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS Foundation, while two runners-up will each be awarded a Talent Development prize of £2,500.
Glastonbury has today (26 March) released the longlist of acts who are in contention for this year's Emerging Talent Competition. Those chosen from thousands of entries were selected by the competition's judging panel, comprising of 30 of the UK’s best online music writers.
Each judge selected their three favourite acts to form the 90-strong longlist, and the festival has now shared a YouTube playlist featuring tracks by all of the longlisted acts — you can listen to that below.
These 90 acts will now be narrowed down to a shortlist of just eight, who will then compete at April’s live finals for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s festival.
The winner of the 2024 Emerging Talent Competition was Jamaican-Irish rapper JayaHadADream, who has since seen her work feature across national TV, radio and media, as well as performing at other major festivals including Reading & Leeds and Boomtown.
Speaking to M last year, Jaya reflected: ‘I was already building my confidence, but the Glastonbury win really made me feel unstoppable. If you reach for something, you actually can get it.
'I’m from a working-class background where we had free school meals, so to even go to a festival like Glastonbury was amazing because it’s been on my bucket list for so long. It was all funded as well, so I didn’t need to worry about the finances because the PRS Foundation grant really helped, enabling me to pay my band which is really important. I got to perform a song which features some bars about quitting my day job and making it to Glastonbury, which was a nice full-circle moment.’
Other recent Emerging Talent Competition winners and finalists include N’famady Kouyaté, English Teacher, Flohio, Izzy Bizu and Declan McKenna.
