They were called 'one to watch' which I think sounds slightly better than 'hot pick.'
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can we have the old TSV music back
I don't remember 'in the spotlight' but now I remember 'one to watch' very well - quite a few presenters used to get themselves in knots and talk about 'up to 5 one to watches a day' didn't they? You'd have thought someone could have corrected them since it was a phrase they all had to trot out endlessly - maybe that's why it fell by the wayside in favour of 'hot pick.' Nothing for the poor dears to mangle there.