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Label: top of the pops

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  • The Briefing

Scottish independence: what would it mean for pop?

Let's look at the big issues.
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  • The News

The lineup of the Top Of The Pops Christmas special has been announced

Some artists will be recorded per­form­ing on a stage in a TV studio to be broadcast on Christmas Day. According to Unreality TV, the Christmas Top Of The Pops roster will…
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Simon Cowell is planning a global Top Of The Pops-style music show

Simon Cowell is planning to launch a global live music show "a year down the line", The Sun reports. Speaking at a press screening for his new gameshow Red Or Black,…
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  • The Briefing

Nicole Scherzinger on The X Factor: not awful

The YouTube video at the end of this post may no longer be active by the time you read this, but that matters little. What matters lots is that Nicole…
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  • The Briefing

"It looks like The Human League on Top Of The Pops."

Not our words, viewers, but those of Popjustice Twitter follower @fraserwashbag (not, we suspect, his real name) in response to the above pho­to­graph, tweeted by us last night from a…
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Lady Gaga has been a‑warblin' a tune on the television

[youtube]dgNg9QdsNg0[/youtube] This just showed up on the Popjustice forums - Lady Gaga per­form­ing 'Telephone' on Japan's Music Station. This is the sort of thing she would have done on Top…
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Why a sad day for 6Music could also be a sad day for Radio 1

You'll be reading a lot today about the imminent demise of the BBC's altern­at­ive music radio station 6Music. Despite a playlist that doesn't exactly fit in with the Popjustice view…
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The easy way to bring back Top Of The Pops

So people want Top Of The Pops back.  (By 'people' we mean 'a music industry desperate for a way to promote their new acts nobody's inter­ested in, who don't realise that…
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Unwrapping tomorrow's presents today: it's the Christmas TOTP lineup

This, we hear, is what you'll be seeing on tomorrow afternoon's Top Of The Pops. Take That — 'Greatest Day'  Girls Aloud — 'The Promise'  Kaiser Chiefs — 'Never Miss…
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Notes On Britney's X Factor Performance

1. Come on now. It should abso­lutely not be a require­ment to sing live during a tele­vi­sion per­form­ance, and it seems slightly odd that a gen­er­a­tion of people who grew…
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The best popstar is currently Charli XCX and that's that
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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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