Poll Results: Slingshot's Best New Artist Of 2018

This was a busy year for NPR's Slingshot artists — 40 exceptional, emerging talents from around the world, hand-picked by public radio stations. They dropped albums, signed record label deals and spent innumerable hours working in studios and on stages. Despite the inevitable changes that come with moving from open mics to stadium tours, one element of their success remained constant: you.

Which is why we created our first ever reader poll, so could tell who deserved to be Slingshot's Best New Artist of 2018. Read on to see who finished in the poll's Top 10, what they