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Charli XCX and Lorde's 'The Girl, So Confusing Version with Lorde' is the winner of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Charli's first Twenty Quid nom­in­a­tion was in 2014 for Boom Clap; she ...
The good thing about just popping posts on the front page every year or so is that in doing so I can still make the claim that Popjustice is one of the world's longest-running music blogs. Incredible!
It's that time of the year again. Full shortlist over at www.popjustice.com/twentyquidmusicprize, along with details of how to be on the judging panel. Hurrah.
It's not easy getting a decent screen­shot of Sarah Harding's epic 'walking Primrose' line from The Promise's video. Back in 2008 a 480p pop video seemed like the height of digital wonder, but at some ...
If there's one thing worth bringing Popjustice out of semi-hiatus for it's the long-awaited return of an iconic, platinum-selling four-piece pop jug­ger­naut whose acronymised name alone can reduce ...
The new Julia Michaels song starts off as one thing and ends up as something a bit different. Pop songs about rela­tion­ships tend to be vari­ations on a fairly small number of themes but All Your ...
Griff's really done it this time. Heartbreak really shouldn't sound this spec­tac­u­lar but, well, here we are. What a song. The Black Hole artwork features a hole with a black border, ie the opposite ...
You might say "Peter why have you put a 28-year-old song at the top of the New Music Friday, are you having another meltdown" and, yes, fair point but: a) America: What Time Is Love? hasn't been ...
This year has been many things, but as we say goodbye to 2020 let's just choose to remember it as a load of shit with some decent music in the background. A playlist of the Top 45 singles of the year?
(For some reason the shitting embed hasn't updated with the new playlist and if it hasn't sorted itself out by the time you see this you can click here to open Spotify.) ...
The man looking at you through a colourful spring — and in a way aren't we all, these days, viewing the world through a mul­ti­col­oured Slinky — is Lauv: singer of song, thinker of thoughts, releaser ...
Yesterday morning, not fully realising what I was letting myself in for, I set up an online booking system so that anyone who had a new single out this week could reserve a slot then Zoom me and tell ...