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Let's have a rummage around in a branch of HMV.

A few Christmasses ago we went off to a branch of Zavvi (formerly a Virgin Megastore) to see what they had on their shelves. Well, that branch of Zavvi has…
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  • The Briefing

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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Zav the last dance

In case you were wondering, the massive Zavvi store on London's Tottenham Court Road (formerly the country's flagship Virgin Megastore — the one everyone use to visit when they came…
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  • The Briefing

Zavvi, 2007–2008

Happy Christmas! Zavvi has gone into admin­is­tra­tion, with 2500 jobs on the line and the immediate future of British music looking VERY SHODDY. (International readers: Zavvi is/was one of the…
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This has to be the final word on Zavviwatch

Thank you to everybody who has been sending in their pho­to­graphs, par­tic­u­larly those who've managed to include their OWN FACES reflected in CD boxes.
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Zavviwatch: Reader's Choice

Yesterday we marvelled at Zavvi's homemade displays, but Popjustice reader Emmie Bednall has pulled off a real treat with this one, which she spotted in a branch of Zavvi last…
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Hapless CD-Flogging Concepts Of Our Times, part 324

It'll be a difficult Christmas for Zavvi. Like most other high street retailers they're facing a grim few weeks as Britain braces itself, in the run-up to Christmas, for a…
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Any single as long as it's Oasis

Killing time in town a couple of weeks ago we took an oppor­tun­ity to pop into Zavvi on Oxford Steet. It used to be Virgin, but now it's not. We…
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  • The Briefing

Our favourite Christmas card

Amazing — after our invest­ig­a­tion of the Virgin Megastores / zavvi 'rebrand', we have received a Christmas card from zavvi. Before you start to worry, please do not be fooled or…
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And the Worst Christmas Present Of 2007 award goes to…

…'Zavvi' gift tokens. 'Zavvi', in case you have not been out and about in Britain's high streets over the last two months, is not an ointment your doctor tells you…
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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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