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Campaignwatch: 'Untouchable' for Top 10, 'Fairytale Of New York' for Christmas Number One

And so it continues.  First up today we have 'Untouchable Top 10', a campaign with the modest aim of getting Girls Aloud's 'Untouchable' to at least Number 10 in the…
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Oh dear.

The Rage Against The Machine campaign was a stag­ger­ing piece of work but as piss-poor attempts to do it again begin to trickle through, a rather grim picture of the…
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Oh God is it that time of the year again

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ZjMzuprWc Regular Popjustice viewers will know how tiresome we find sup­posedly 'viral' campaigns of the 'get this song to Number One LOL' variety and one of this year's Christmas efforts…
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What MIGHT the charts look like on Sunday? Let's investigate

A bell means a good result for the artist, a honk means there will be shouting and pointing of fingers.  Peter Kay etc — 'The Official BBC Children In Need…
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Just think.

It was only, what? 18 months ago? Not too far in the past, anyway, that everyone was like "oh boo hoo pop is dead pop is over that's it why…
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Is the world ready for a new Same Difference song? Because there is one and here it is

When Same Difference were signed by Syco after the 2007 X Factor run they were very excited about unleash­ing their colourful, uncom­plic­ated inter­pret­a­tion of pop onto the charts. There was…
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Notes on 'Break Your Heart' by Taio Cruz

» Very cleverly it sounds like about 60% of everything that's been in the charts over the last eight months, meaning that it's cheaper to buy than the latest Now…
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A positive review of Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love'.

How odd, but how brilliant to be reviewing a Cheryl Cole single. It feels wrong but sur­pris­ingly right.  So here's the thing to get out of the way: 'Fight For This…
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Put a Donkey on it

Today's Popjustice Song Of The Day is jolly good. It's called 'Ambitions', it's by a Norwegian pop troupe called Donkeyboy, and it has a good video.  httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WQ6u9os50 The song's currently 'topping…
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Look if we don't make the shiny helmet joke someone else is going to

JLS may have put boybands back at the top of the charts in the UK but we might not yet be ready for all-German, all-gay boyband The Village Boys. Mainly…

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    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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