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"A Top Gear for music"

  • August 31, 2010
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A Top Gear for music. This has actually been tried before — CD:UK's final relaunch was itself supposed to be a Top Gear for music. What does this mean? 

Well, Top Gear . It is a show which in the early 2000s rein­ven­ted itself as the sort of show that appealed to proper car fans, but also 

It is something that has acci­dent­ally happened with Popjustice too, we suppose. 

There is a fine line between making a music show for people who aren't satisfied with a countdown of the Top 40 and making a musicshow for people who don't like music. 

Editorialising the chart 

Packages. Paintballing with Girls Can't Catch, the Monkey Tennis of

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    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
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    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
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    The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
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    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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