The Peterborough-born cheeky chappy made a huge splash with fans as one quarter of swoonsome boy band JLS, yet he's managed to become a genre-hopping solo artist without skipping a beat. He shows off his cloud-grazing, MJ-inspired falsetto on 2015's “Get Stupid”, a retro-tinged, swinging soul number that perfectly sums up his solitary approach, while “Precious” shows off his more mellow side, strummed acoustic guitars sitting beneath his crystalline pop vocals. And if you're looking for evidence of Merrygold's newfound maturity, look no further than finger-snapping ballad “Too Late”.