Niko B makes Milton Keynes feel like Milan. Nowhere else in the industry are you going to hear a fella rapping about Pasta Kings with a straight face. His writing is so pedestrian, but that’s what makes it so special. When I think about voices that are making music that’s uniquely British, voice of a next generation style, I can’t help but think of Niko B. If CMAT songs were Taylor Swift albums, No More Virgos is her Red. CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) has one the most timeless voices in the industry – seductive and heartbreaking in equal measure. It’s the perfect fusion of country and pop. “Global pop superstar from Ireland” CMAT dropped the latest single from her upcoming debut album at the end of October and it’s the most pop the country singer-songwriter has sounded yet.

Here are The Tab’s choices for the top 40 best songs of 2021, ranked.

2021 was soundtracked by tunes that burned with a yearn to be loved, to find paradise and to move on. The best songs of this year are reflective, pensive, angry, and often feel like a weight lifted. If 2020 was the year of dance anthems cruelly released in a time period where we couldn’t sweat to them on a club floor, 2021 was the year of a cathartic pop-punk howl.

Ciara like a boy, you tube