[Shaun]

Ben posted on my wall the other day asking for a song he remembered and it turned out to be the Klaxons' "Not Over Yet" cover... and I was just thinking how they turned out to be a bit of a flash in the pan... their second album, 'Surfing the Void' peaked at #10. It was pretty good though.

There's also said to be a curse about the Mercury Prize - which boosts sales a heck of a lot for a critically-acclaimed artist and then they never match it. This seems a bit unfair though since their fame was shortlived, if at all (Ms Dynamite, Speech Debelle, Badly Drawn Boy), they've continued to sell well (Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Dizzee Rascal) or they've continued to produce well-received material (PJ Harvey, Antony and the Johnsons, Klaxons, The xx (surely)).

Just wondered what springs to mind... I'm talking mostly here about critical hype, rather than... sales figures. A good example would be Little Boots, who won BBC's Sound of Music in 2009, beating GaGa, Florence, White Lies, La Roux, Empire of the Sun and Kid Cudi.