NME has announced new premium coffee table book: The Cover 2024-2025 – celebrating the emerging talent who have featured on The Cover over the last year.
This book marks the second edition in the annually released collection, looking back at another year of NME celebrating the most exciting emerging artists. Arriving as a 300-page special edition, The Cover 2024-2025 is a collector’s piece for music lovers, showcasing the 50 talents that have graced the weekly Cover of NME in 2024 and 2025.
The hardback features artists including Kneecap, Lola Young, Oklou, LE SSERAFIM, and Lambrini Girls, to name a few, and features bespoke artwork, interviews, and previously unreleased photography.
Other artists included are Julie, Victoria Canal, Nieve Ella, Berwyn, Heartworms, Scowl, Divorce, Chloe Qisha, Tanner Adell, YHWH Nailgun and many more.
“I’m so excited to present NME The Cover 2024-2025 and, in doing so, share the immense year in music we have had captured in the music and journeys of these 50 inimitable artists,” said Karen Gwee, Managing Editor (Music) at NME Networks.
“The small but mighty NME team has been so lucky to work with these artists and a constellation of talented creatives – photographers, stylists and many more – to realise bold ideas and execute experimental shoots. Through this book, we celebrate risk-taking and imagination, and salute the vibrant community that makes artistry reality.”
NME The Cover 2024-2025 will be stocked exclusively online through music retailer Dawsons, and available to pre-order with a special discount exclusive to NME subscribers from Tuesday November 4 at 8am GMT. It will go on general sale Thursday November 6 at 8am GMT. Sign up to NME’s mailing list here for more information.
The full list of artists that feature in NME The Cover 2024–2025 is:
TINY HABITS
KNEECAP
AMAARAE
H1-KEY
LOLA YOUNG
METTE
INFINITY SONG
BERWYN
LAVA LA RUE
WISHY
SARAH KINSLEY
LE SSERAFIM
FCUKERS
NIEVE ELLA
DORA JAR
NICK WARD
ATARASHII GAKKO!
JULIE
HERIOT
VICTORIA CANAL
JULIET IVY
MUSTAFA
JORDAN ADETUNJI
BECKAH AMANI
NEMAHSIS
MARY IN THE JUNKYARD
THUS LOVE
KISS OF LIFE
UPSAHL
LAMBRINI GIRLS
HEARTWORMS
DUA SALEH
FRIKO
XG
CHLOE SLATER
SCOWL
GYUBIN
SAYA GRAY
DIVORCE
OKLOU
UNDERSCORES
MEI SEMONES
RATBAG
TANNER ADELL
YHWH NAILGUN
SHERELLE
CHLOE QISHA
AMELIA MOORE
SPILL TAB
TRIPLES
The first edition of the premium coffee table book arrived last year, presenting the first 50 artists to have featured on The Cover, including K-pop megastars ENHYPEN, BRIT Award-winners The Last Dinner Party, Mercury Prize winners English Teacher, pop-jazz sensation Laufey, and global pop phenomenon Chappell Roan. Buy NME The Cover 2023-2024 here now.
It came after The Cover relaunched in May 2023, with the mission to champion the most exciting emerging artists globally and connect them with NME’s audience of millions of music fans.
