Sharp, fat-free adult club-pop for life-experienced pop-clubbed adults Although Tracey Thorn has been popping up here there and...

Part 2 of a very short festive series.....here are 10 other great Christmas Songs or ones that are a bit Christmass-y, that didn’t make...

How to make a pop song 200% better in eleven easy steps Written a pop song that's failing to snap and crackle? Got a future banger...

Too-clever-by-half Essex boys invent a genre, disown a genre, disown themselves, then kiss and make up triumphantly. Tales of London...

2011 UK Chart Position: 34 French electronic pop is the best kind of pop (except when it’s British or Swedish) and so this already had a...

Christmas Number 1's are a funny old bunch. Some Christmas classics didn't get anywhere near the top spot, while others are a bit.......

Ah Saint Etienne…chronicling a very specific London version of life, all greasy spoon cafes, taxi rides, unpaid bills and cups of tea....

He wasn’t planning on going solo. But thank God he did. It’s mainly desolation and despair round these parts, but always with a...

Caught between real life, and ignoring the fantasy. Confession time, I’m not really a Queen fan. I don’t mind them. I’m just not really a...

In honour (ahem) of the glorious reformation of The Spice Girls, here’s a rundown of their best 10 solo efforts. Slim pickings...

Year: 2005 UK Chart Position: 4 Sometimes there’s a strange symbiotic connection between producers and artists that just works. The...

Year; 2016 UK Chart Position: 64 Perhaps this doesn’t strictly qualify as “pop”. It’s more a scarily prescient Dystopian nightmare...

Year: 2010 UK Chart Position: 7 From Ziggy Stardust onwards, pop music has been founded on artifice and character building. I remember...

Year: 2013 UK Chart Position: 6 Always a master of timing, was there ever a more perfect exit than that of David Bowie? Releasing your...

Year: 2013 UK Chart Position: 1 I’ve never met anyone who dislikes this song. They may not love it. But to say you don’t like it would be...

Year: 1990 UK Chart Position: 1 As a performance, this must be one of the most startling number one records of all time. As a reading of...

Year: 2000 UK Chart Position: 1 This song is so brilliantly meta it hurts. Pop music has of course been littered with clever clever...

Year: 1990 UK Chart Position: 6 I’ve got a theory that there are two types of great pop single. One pulls up a chair next to you, takes...

Year: 1987 UK Chart Position: 2 Of all great Pet Shop Boys singles (and there are a few) this is probably their most understated. It...

Year: 2010 UK Chart Position: 8 Pop music is all about taking universal sentiments and drilling them down into something personal about...