Twenty One Pilots crowned Hottest Record of the YearJumpsuit by Twenty One Pilots has been crowned the Hottest Record of the Year announced in Annie Mac’s show tonight on BBC Radio 1OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY BBC Radio 1 They beat the likes of The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, and Drake to win the award, following last year’s winners The Killers with The Man. Known for breaking some of the biggest and newest music on the planet, Annie features her Hottest Record in the World every Monday to Friday at 7.30pm, the time and place to find out what is the biggest track right now. Listeners were able to vote for their favourite tracks via the BBC Radio 1 website and via the Radio 1 twitter account. The 2018 Top 20 Hottest Records in the World voted by the listeners are (in order): Twenty One Pilots - Jumpsuit Twenty One Pilots say: “I knew all that voting we did would pay off. It’s one of our favourite songs to play live and favourite songs in general so to hear it’s an important record to our fans is pretty awesome.” Annie Mac says: "Hottest Record Of The Year is a chance to celebrate the incredible array of music I have the pleasure of launching every single week night at 7.30pm on Radio 1. It’s a great cross section of the best music of the year and a chance for us to really engage with the many passionate music fans that listen to our show. It was so exciting to play Jumpsuit for the first time , there were people locked in form all over the world and it felt like a truly exciting and inclusive radio moment. It’s such a deserved win, I’m delighted for them."
Source BBC Radio 1
December 6, 2018 5:12pm ET by BBC Radio 1 |