Jake Bugg

In an interview for The Telegraph, when dubbed 'an East Midlands Bob Dylan, Bugg said "Bob Dylans cool, you know, hes great, but he's not a major influence".

On 22 May 2012, Bugg appeared on the BBC music programme Later... with Jools Holland. In August 2012 Bugg was a supporting act for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Belsonic Music Festival, Belfast. On 1 October 2012, he performed live on the BBC Radio 6 Music programme Live at Maida Vale. Bugg's debut album was released on 15 October 2012.Talking about Bugg and his debut Clash hailed the "precocious talent fusing retro folk with blistering contemporary rock riffs".

On 21 October 2012 the song "Two Fingers" charted at 28 in the UK while his self-titled album reached number one in the UK charts. On 1 January 2013 Bugg appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on BBC2, and on 5 January 2013 he appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV1.

At the London 2012 Olympic games, Bugg's song "Lightning Bolt" was played during the build up to the 100m mens final.

On 17 January Bugg performed "Two Fingers" on the US TV talkshow Conan. On 26 January, he performed the same song as well as giving a short interview on the talkshow Lindmo on Norwegian television NRK.

On Wednesday the 20th February Jake Bugg was nominated for a Brit Award in the category "British Breakthrough Act". This was voted by the BBC Radio 1 listeners; the other nominees were Alt-J, Ben Howard, Jessie Ware and Rita Ora.

Bugg lost out to Ben Howard, however before the show, he said "If I've got nowt to do I might swing by. I've got one day off from the tour. I don't know yet - I might go. I might just skip the do (party) and head to the after party. I'll wake up on Wednesday morning and just see how I feel, (my chances of winning are) very slim... I expect Rita Ora to win, but good luck to all of them.... it's great (to be nominated) but I don't really need an award to inspire me to keep writing music and playing my songs."

On 22 April, 2013 Bugg performed "Lightning Bolt" on the US TV talkshow The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In 2015, the artist won Best Solo Artist award at the NME Awards.