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Spot The Boyle competition: the winner

We've picked the winner for our amazing Spot The Boyle competition. Congratulations to Tom Carstairs from Worcester… …who cor­rec­tely 'spotted the Boyle'. Tom wins £4.
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You can't go wrong with a bit of black and white.

This is the stunning artwork for Rihanna's 'Rated R'. There is 'a lot going on' in this pho­to­graph, isn't there. A lot of 'emotion'. Well done Ellen von Unwerth. In…
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A watchable Fan Death video

It seems, unbe­liev­ably, to be almost a year since we wrote about Fan Death, a sort of post-Shoreditch Reynolds Girls, and their really very good single 'Veronica's Veil'.  Can it…
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"Right on cue, I fell in love with you…"

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phq_BMlGuCU If you missed it on the TV the other night this is Shirley Bassey per­form­ing 'The Performance Of My Life', the Pet Shop Boys-penned song which brings her new…
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The greatest website in the history of everything

WE LOVE COMPAREMYRADIO.COM. It is a website which compares playlist data from all the big UK radio stations then tells you who's playing what how often, and which radio stations…
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Lady Gaga's 'Fame Monster' — it's a proper album (and a very good one at that)

Right — so we've heard Lady Gaga's 'The Fame Monster' and it's a pretty aston­ish­ing piece of work. Lyrically, sonically, melod­ic­ally and con­cep­tu­ally it's right up there with its pre­de­cessor…
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Holy Mosley!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAzo6zYgaqQ You know a song's got a special something to it when repeated listens seem a good idea even when one takes into account the incon­veni­ence of having to listen…
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'X Factor roundup'

There were some excellent entries from the Popjustice X Factor Playsheet filling-in community this weekend — the completed Twat Pack photos above were sent in by @daleswaysweet and @raynecleoud who…
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It's Friday — it's X Factor playsheet time

For the third week running we've somehow remembered to do an X Factor playsheet. This week there's a 'big band' theme. Right-click here to download yours and, as ever, you…
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Is Stacey Solomon the greatest X Factor contestant of all time?

Probably not but she's def­in­itely in the Top 10.  Ahead of tomorrow night's show take some time to watch this incred­ible clip on the X Factor website. (We know that at…

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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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    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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