English singer and songwriter (born 1990)

Claude says:Tom Odell is a Chichester-born singer-songwriter discovered by Lily Allen, who signed him to her Columbia imprint after seeing him live and comparing his stage presence to Bowie. You latched onto Long Way Down right when it dropped in 2013 — that autumn burst accounts for nearly all your plays — and he's lingered quietly ever since, a reliable piano-pop fixture you check in on every few years rather than chase through the albums that followed.