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1990s boyband comeback update

Remember Five were staging a comeback? Remember we went to the press con­fer­ence which was held in a shopping centre and saw the band making their 'grand entrance' by appearing…
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They've run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible: this is an X pop group

We were busy with something important yesterday and were unable to mention the news that Liberty X are to split up, six years after forming on the first ever UK…
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100 things the Rihanna album's better than

Facts are facats.
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Things you will learn from our Calvin Harris interview

» Roisin Murphy is "a bit mental". » He is — according to himself — the nicest person in the business of music and most other people are unpleas­ant. (NB…
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Remembrance Sunday: The Tamperer — 'Hammer To The Heart'

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D06G2NaGWfk The known facts: 1. This song is basically 'Hung Up' meets 'Something Kinda Oooh', except seven years ago. 2. If someone released 'Hammer To The Heart' tomorrow it would be Number…
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Something kinda… Oh

If you need any proof at all that the weekend has def­in­itely landed consider the fact that this song… …has been covered by THIS foreign girlgroup… …and now sounds like this. [audio:shine4.mp3]…
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The little girls with their fingers in the pop dyke

ALERT! ALERT! In the next few months the world's most amazing song­writers and producers will find out whether the best pop songs they've written in the last few years have…
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Close down every environmental charity right now, the world is saved

Everyone loves a charity single, right kids? Here's Madonna's 'Live Earth' track, 'Hey You'.  httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5TejVAHeM OH COME ON. Even Geri Halliwell would have second thoughts about lyrics like that and with Pharell…
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No way does Fergie look like this in the morning

Here is a woeful video for the new and rubbish Fergie solo single, 'Big Girls Don't Cry'. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDD5HLwifY Had she come from any band other than Black Eyed Peas now would…
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What singles are really about, and sound effects to suggest how they might do in this Sunday's chart

Eyes down look in… Rihanna — 'Umbrella' (download only) "I will be your friend no matter what and contrary to what someone attempted to tell Popjustice in the pub two Fridays…

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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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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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