Congratulations to JADE, whose single Plastic Box tonight won the 2025 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. The song was written by Jade, Lauren Aquilina, Daniel Traynor and Oscar Görres , and produced ...

A few weeks ago we Skyped one of our favourite new pop people for a short interview which ended up turning into an epic, sprawling chat about pop, pissed-up brawls and Lady Gaga. As you'll see, the ...

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 ...

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', ...

This playlist very nearly killed us, not least because in the time between starting it last week and finishing it this week all the Now track­list­ings seem to have been taken off Wikipedia. But here ...

I’m very good. I’m in a coffee shop on [happening East London’s] Curtain Road. You didn’t fall asleep again did you? EDITOR’S NOTE: Marina is referring to a phone interview mishap during the promotion ...

We haven't mentioned it much over the last couple of years but when all's said and done we're pretty keen on the output of Lady Gaga. In March we went to Las Vegas to interview her and we're ...

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.

Dua Lipa is a really good pop entity. 'New Love' — great song. 'Be The One' — great song. 'Last Dance' — great song. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago we enjoyed a semi-long­win­ded chat with Dua during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!