The stage-shy teenager, who wanted to be a medical researcher growing up, said she was mad when she found out a friend had surreptitiously uploaded her music to a streaming website. However, this led to Katy Perry tweeting about her song and a record deal.  Aurora Aksnes, who performed at the Great Escape festival in Brighton this year, calls her style "dark pop".  Finally. New music that makes my ??a flutter. Check this 17 yr old angel @AURORAmusic RUNAWAY https://t.co/KLZRLeSiVk pic.twitter.com/scJvDfDgSU  The revelation ahead of the release of John Lewis' advert launch on Friday morning puts an end to hopes that Adele, who recently returned to the record books with her new single Hello, would be the voice of this year's festive spot from the retailer.  Rumour has it that the new John Lewis Christmas ad will feature Adele doing a cover of Peter Andre's 1996 hit, Mysterious Girl  Speculation had intensified after a 10-second teaser with just the hashtag #OnTheMoon, which many believe to be a teaser for the John Lewis advert, appeared during a Sunday night episode of The X Factor – notably similar to how Adele had chosen to tease the release of her new song in a previous week.  Manic Street Preacher fans will be disappointed that their petition to have the band record the John Lewis advert was unsuccessful.  Word is this year's Christmas John Lewis song is a winsome acoustic cover of Chumbawamba's TubThumping  The Christmas advert will feature a cover of the Oasis song Half the World Away, a 1994 B-side that doubled as the theme tune to The Royle Family.  The song would fit well thematically with the #OnTheMoon rumours.  Two of the six songs used in John Lewis' Christmas adverts, since it started working with the agency Adam & Eve / DDB in 2009, have reached number one in the charts.  Taken by Trees kicked off the John Lewis tradition of having breathy covers of classic pop songs. The Swedish singer recorded Sweet Child O' Mine, the 1988 rock anthem from Guns N' Roses. Taken by Trees' version, which was also used in the final scene of the 2010 film Life As We Know It starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, reached number 23 in the UK charts.  Since 2010, the adverts have focused on British songs and singers. Ellie Goulding's cover of Your Song, originally released by Elton John 40 years earlier, peaked at number two in the charts, with sales at the time of 72,292 copies, and topped the UK Official Download Chart. Ms Goulding also performed the song during Prince William and Kate Middleton's first dance at their wedding reception.  John Lewis had another success in the same year with its spring campaign, which used a Fyfe Dangerfield cover of Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman.  Often regarded as the best John Lewis Christmas advert, the song from 2011 was the lowest-ranking song on the charts out of all its peers. Amelia Warner, who goes by the stage name of Slow Moving Millie and is married to Fifty Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan, sung a cover of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths. It peaked at number 31 in the official charts.  Gabrielle Aplin's cover of The Power of Love, released in 1984 by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, was the first John Lewis advert song to reach number one. It re-entered the top 100 the following Christmas following a seasonal surge in downloads.  Lily Allen got a second consecutive number one for the department store with her cover of Somewhere Only We Know, the 2004 indie ballad by Keane. Some of the proceeds from the single, which accompanied the animated tale of a bear and a hare, were donated to Save the Children's Philippine Typhoon Appeal campaign. Ms Allen later said she earned only £8,000 from the song.  John Lewis turned to the Beatles for the second time in 2014, having used a version of From Me To You in 2009. New indie singer-songwriter Tom Odell crooned a cover of Real Love, a John Lennon song that was reworked by the three remaining Beatles in 1995. Odell's version reached number seven in the charts.
The breathy tones of the annual John Lewis advert cover song have become a   core part of Christmas season. What does this year have in store?