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BLOODY HELL THE ALEXANDRA BURKE SINGLE IS PHENOMENAL

We have some phonecalls and things to do but will tell you about it properly a bit later. In the meantime: » 140bpm » Sirens » 'Womanizer'-meets-'Biology' intro Literally amazing.
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Well it's almost two months since the last Saturdays single

So here's the next one. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjYV9rJwx_E Just to be clear on this, 'Forever Is Over' is the first single from the band's next album. You may be able to detect a…
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Festival report

We went to V on Sunday. Got there late afternoon. Watched Lady Gaga, went home. The End.
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…and five things we noted from The X Factor over the weekend

VI Triple Trouble (above) are amazing. Their wildly misjudged sense of enti­tle­ment means they would make perfect popstars. VII The new live audition format doesn't work… …and breaks an unbroken…
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Five things we want from The X Factor this weekend…

I Cheryl Crying (Due to some sort of sob story about 'my struggle' etc etc.) (Yes we know it's not good to want someone to be a‑weepin' but that's enter­tain­ment innit.)…
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Today's Song Of The Day is a thing of beauty and wonder

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZeLGCgxh0 In case you for whatever reason opted not to check out today's Song Of The Day, you really should give it a listen — it's a re-edit of Agnetha…
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Note to record labels

Never, ever ask your artists to voice their own advert­ise­ments on Spotify. They sound terrible and desperate and cheap and tawdry and just pathetic and music fans begin to associate…
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A Visitor download for a Friday

The very good Discodust blog has a new MP3 from the very good (and pre­vi­ously Popjustice-approved) duo Visitor. The track's called 'Too Far Gone' and it's not, all told, one…
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What do Alphabeat look like in 2009?

This. Of note: 1. A lot of new colours, sizes, lengths and shapes in the hair department. 2. With one rather obvious exception. :( 3. A general theme of blueness. 4.…
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Well that went well

This just in from Popjustice reader ihaveahat: In case you can't quite make it out, that's forty (40) boxes of the unsold Spice Girls comeback single 'Headlines', going for 30p…

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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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