In the last eighteen months or so song­writer, producer and former X Factor class clown Savan Kotecha has helped create some of pop's best moments. We're talking grade A bril­liance like 'Bang Bang', ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tove Lo is one of Popjustice's favourite new pop people. As a vocalist she hints at euphoria and mel­an­choly in equal measure, as an artist she delivers a winning com­bin­a­tion of ambition, passion ...

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.

Porter Robinson: creator of highly listen­able elec­tronic pop music. Sawer of logs (see Something Comforting video for details). Thoughtful fellow. Interesting Talker. Name thief. To be totally frank ...

Fifteen years ago this month Busted's second single was 'riding high' in the UK charts. Year 3000 was denied the top spot thanks to David 'David Sneddon' Sneddon's Stop Living The Lie, but Year 3000's ...

Congratulations to Laura Mvula, whose single Got Me has won the 2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. In fairness, it's a great single. Twenty quid (cash) on its way to Mvula Towers. More details ...

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 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!

Ryan Tedder writes songs with Beyoncé, Adele, Kelly Clarkson and his own band OneRepublic. The songs are good and people like them. You've probably heard him talking about song­writ­ing quite a lot, ...

Hello Max. It’s unusual to be having this chat today – usually when a new band comes into view it will be the lead singer who’s put forward for a chat. Yet here you are to tell us all about Carolina ...