Sandi Thom has tearfully explained she is giving up music after her latest single was rejected by a number of radio stations.
Thom, who rose to prominence in 2006 with her song "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)", posted a video to Facebook where she explained her new single, "Earthquake", had been passed over for inclusion on Radio 2 and Bauer Network playlists.
“I am done with this industry. I am f****** sick and tired of having to sit on the edge of my seat waiting for these people to come back and tell me their verdict of whether this song is going to be a success,” she said in the video, which was later taken down from the social network.
"Honest to God I'm f****** sick to death of the b******* this industry pulls on people like me and I've had it. Enough. I'm done.
"F*** you Radio 2. F*** you Bauer network and f*** the lot of you."
She says she wrote the song specifically to cater for the radio networks in question, and that the pop song is catchy and “fits their format”. Thom adds that she doesn't understand why it would be overlooked.
“See you later. Radio 2, shove it up your a*** because I really don't care any more.”
The clip soon went viral, and Thom was sent messages of support from her fans.
Thom was the youngest student ever to be accepted at the prestigious Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), and garnered attention from record label bosses after live streaming gigs from her flat in Tooting.
But after "Punk Rocker..." went to number one in the UK charts, Thom saw diminishing returns on subsequent releases.
Charlie Brooker wrote that she was "the musical antichrist", calling her hit song "a boneheaded plea for authenticity, sung in the most Tupperware tones imaginable".
