-Jay-

01 Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La 02 Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love 03 Tom Grennan - Little Bit of Love 04 Sam Fender - Will We Talk? 05 Darin - En apa som liknar dig 06 Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Down in the Park I liked everything!

01 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor 02 Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 03 Zara Larsson & MNEK - Never Forget You 04 Adele - Skyfall 05 MARINA - Oh No! 06 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Woah the ladies came to play! I have to be completely honest: I respect and understand how much of a classic Wuthering Heights is, and it's so unique. However, I just don't particularly like it! I'm sorry 🥹 That's just a me thing!

Ooof I left this a bit late! 01 Texas - Summer Son 02 Bananarama - I Want You Back 03 Fontaines D.C. - Favourite 04 New Order - Regret 05 Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again 06 Sade - Kiss of Life All of these I found to be good at least, so this is not a #getSadeOUT moment! I think the only thing that made Sade wind up at the bottom, is that the song kind of showed its hand early. Pleasant, but then went on a bit too long with the same vibe. Pun intended x

I'm in my very lazy era! 😭 Slap me!

Thank you @Paddington James ! Glad you're liking it!

I wasn't sure where to post this! It's not really to do with the singles box set, but anyway - New digital EPs of Say You'll Be There, 2 Become 1 and Mama/Who Do You Think You Are have been released today! It's also the 30th anniversary of Say You'll Be There's release today. The track lists match what will be included on the CDs in the box set. New to download/streaming: Say You'll Be There Single Edit Junior's X Beats Kurt's Dub Karaoke Version 2 Become 1 Seremos 1 Los 2 - Versión En Español Instrumental Karaoke Version Mama Instrumental Karaoke Version Who Do You Think You Are Morales Bonus Mix Karaoke Version (although its sharing the play count of the Radio Version - everything else listed above has no play count data yet) Unlike the Wannabe EP released back in July, these three new EPs have not been backdated to 1996/1997. Currently they're showing up as new 2026 releases with release dates of 14th October. Whether their team will eventually backdate them remains to be seen. Having them show up as new releases is a good thing for visibility, which the Wannabe EP didn't really get from immediately behaving as a 1996 release at the bottom of their Spotify page. The same goes on Apple Music in regards to Wannabe set to 1996 and the three new releases being 2026. Also on Apple Music, all four of these EPs are appearing in their Albums section, not Singles section. On Spotify, the original digital releases of both Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1 are now hidden away from their page. Clicking the drop down "x more release(s)" on desktop Spotify is the place to find the old versions. The same goes for Mama / Who Do You Think You Are. However, the separate and original release of Who Do You Think You Are / Mama is currently still accessible through their single page, presumably because that particular release has technically not been replaced in terms of title. I assume this also means that the Holler remix EP will remain accessible just like WDYTYA/M, but the Holler/Let Love Lead the Way release currently available will eventually get replaced by an expanded version. If their team doesn't make amendments to the release dates, they're going to end up out of order in terms of original release dates! That's already the case with these new three releases: Gosh I wrote more than I intended to lol, anyway here are the Spotify embeds. EDIT: Oh I have omre to write xx The play counts on Spotify of the newly released Wannabe mixes are quite low... But like I wrote earlier, that's probably not helped by not being displayed as a new release at the time. It'll be interesting if the three releases today will get better streams. Trust their team to somewhat bury the Wannabe EP on Spotify. P.S. A bit odd that the Wannabe Instrumental has a play count of 4,525. Instrumental was always available in the digital era. Navigating to the previous version of the Wannabe EP and the Instrumental included on that shows a play count of 695,161. So for some reason Spotify considers them to be different audio.

Oh gosh...! Not for £15, ladies - sorry 😘 I feel like I've given them more than enough of my money this year: Funko figures, at full price! I was gutted when they got reduced in a particular UK toy shop mere weeks later Both Wannabe Tiny Vinyl singles Both the CDs and Vinyl Singles box sets (+ poster, sticker sheet)

What if Sam Fender gets his pits out?

It’s going to pain me if BuzzJack tanks Robyn for sending this song, it’s great! I’ll also be regarding low scores for her as being a slight towards Beverley Knight too x

Boys Don’t Cry is my favourite single from Tom’s last album, so that’s a good choice for my tastes! In fact it’s my second highest scrobbled Tom Grennan song (behind Little Bit of Love). Obsessed with the Calvin Harris/Sam Smith song grabbing war.

Also confirmed 😎

Poor Dido, think the writing was on the wall there though 😔 Hope she comes back fighting when the time for that round come!

01 Zara Larsson - Blue Moon (favourite) 02 Leona Lewis - Outta My Head 03 MARINA - Teen Idle 04 Robyn - Time Machine 05 Adele - Can I Get It 06 Jessie Ware - The Kill 07 Agnes - Loaded 08 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - New York City Lights 09 Dido - Mary’s in India 10 Kate Bush - Reaching Out I actually liked everything! So to the lowest placed songs I'm sorry about that

01 Calvin Harris feat. Tinashe - Dollar Signs [favourite] 02 HRVY - Never Be Us 03 Darin - Om du var min 04 Sam Smith - Lose You 05 Roosevelt - Forget 06 Tom Grennan - If Only 07 Lewis Capaldi - Heavenly Kind of State of Mind 08 Gary Numan - M.E. 09 Sam Fender - The Treadmill 10 Damien Rice - Amie 01 I hope I won't be putting a cat amongst the pigeons with this, but I have some thoughts on this Calvin Harris entry. Starting off by saying that 'Dollar Signs' is one I already knew before this and I like it a lot - it's a nostalgic sound for me. Therefore I've put it on top. However I personally feel that sending a song that is 100% vocally by an American female singer is perhaps not totally in the spirit of being a part of the European/Solo Male category. I get that it's a loophole/not against the rules - and that it's obviously produced by Calvin Harris with him credited as the lead artist. I personally would prefer to see his mentor sending songs that either Calvin himself sings on, or the songs that feature European male artists. That's purely my opinion though and obviously it is their mentor's choice completely to send the songs they want to in order to progress. I will say that there's a considerable number of his female features songs that I happen to love... and in all likelihood would be inclined to give top points to... but I would reward him for these particular songs with a bit of a raised eyebrow. Food for thought! 02/03 HRVY and Darin both brought the bangers, fabulous discoveries! 04 That's a great song from Sam Smith. I hadn't heard anything from the album this is from beyond the first couple of singles from it. 05/06/07/08 - All of these I found to be enjoyable so it was a little hard to decide on the order. I think that's one of the most immediate/best Lewis Capaldi songs I've heard! 09/10 - I want to stress that both of these are very nice songs, but unfortunately a case of something has to wind up as the bottom 2. 'Amie' possibly edges '9 Crimes' as my favourite song sent by Damien Rice so far, but alas I preferred everything else. 🙁

01 Texas - Like Lovers (Holding On) [favourite] 02 Years & Years - Ties 03 Sade - Pearls 04 Bananarama - Bad For Me 05 iamamiwhoami - shadowshow 06 Fontaines D.C. - Sundowner 07 Depeche Mode - Photographic 08 M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun 09 Ultravox - Accent on Youth 10 New Order - Love Vigilantes 01 I'd never heard that Texas song before - it's so good! A shame that it's not on streaming. 02 It's been 10 years since I've listened to the majority of Years & Years - 'Communion'. 'Ties' is a really solid pick from it! 03 I think this contest is slowly but surely getting me into Sade, an artist I've never really given attention to before. Very classy and nice to listen to. 04 Quite a bop from Bananarama, and I totally get the comparison to Madonna - Holiday. 05 iamamiwhoami is another discovery for me thanks to The Pop Factor. I'm liking what has been sent from them so far. 06 For my personal tastes, this is way more like it from Fontaines D.C. - looking forward to hearing more. 07 Catchy song from Depeche Mode, possibly my favourite that I've heard by them in this contest. 08 M83's entry was lovely to listen to for a little less than half of the run time, but my attention drifted as it went on. 09-10 Ultravox and New Order are not so much my cup of tea this week, not bad by any means though, and I'm always interested to hear more and see if something else clicks. I already know and like the two obvious songs from them - Vienna and Blue Monday!

8,473 copies in its first week on sale, increasing to a total of 21,509 by August 2019. Being released in 2011, this was many years before these sort of sales would be considered to be ok-ish!

Thank you for sharing @RachelM (and for posting it here @Mr.X )! I'm really looking forward to watching it. Something which is unseen by most fans, after all this time, is a gift! ❤️

That's a reason why S Club 7 had a TV series, that was a vision he had in mind for the Spice Girls!

Aware of that, but it's better to have this content on official pages rather than as fan uploads which can be variable in quality. That's why I say it's about time this happened - quite a lot of other artist accounts have done this quite some time ago!

Ohhhh... That's not an exciting set of releases for me. I might get the Can't Get You Out of My Head 12" though. All the Fever stuff is a let down. Again, might get the 2CD eventually if/when it gets reduced. Don't think there's any need to get a vinyl this time. A double vinyl with the 2CD track list is a hugely missed opportunity... that would have got my money.

Mine also arrived a couple of days ago 0042 for me! What a difference in the speed of "purchase/delivered" of this new version, in comparison to the Plastic Pop releases a few years ago - that was a months long wait!

^^^ Interestingly a little while before the Untouchable music video premiere, a TV guide that showed what date/time/channel this would air on, had a description along the lines of "Watch the premiere of their new video Rolling Back the Rivers in Time". It wasn't long until it became apparent that the third single was actually Untouchable. The fanbase wrote it off as a mistake more so than a changing of minds. We never learned about a single mix back then. Unfortunately this little nugget of info is lost to time on Popjustice! It's just stored in my brain now x So it's very interesting to finally find out that there was a moment that they were strongly considering Rolling Back the Rivers in Time as a single! 😮 Really looking forward to hearing it and if it's much different from the album version. Pre-ordered all 3 formats and sticker sheet! 6 weeks to go until we have a full collection of Girls Aloud studio albums on vinyl. Dreamt of that being a possibility for sooooo many years. I'm still annoyed that I missed the Chemistry sticker sheet because of the randomly extremely limited run of them x

Releasing Stop in the US perhaps wasn't the best approach for the era? Or at least they should have released it far sooner than they did and then made space for Viva Forever. I agree that Viva Forever could have given them more credibility in the US. At least, if radio had been supportive of it. From January 97 to January 98 they were speedy with their single releases, but then they slowed right down... releasing Stop as late as June over there. With Geri having left just a couple of days before the CD release, that was pretty awkward timing! Jan 97 - Wannabe May 97 - Say You'll Be There July 97 - 2 Become 1 Oct 97 - Spice Up Your Life Jan 98 - Too Much June 98 - Stop Dec 98 - Goodbye 4th Feb 97 - Spice 4th Nov 97 - Spiceworld Kind of crazy that from a US perspective, these albums were released in the same calendar year! Only 9 months apart. I think the US needed some more breathing space with the 'Spice' era before moving on to 'Spiceworld'? I see the logic in targeting the Christmas market, but maybe it cost them some respect in the US music industry.

The difference in how they come across in those performances, not even a full 24 months having passed between them, is striking! Geri looks so checked out in the Viva Forever performance. Victoria is very smiley throughout it too which is quite unlike her lol. I'm glad they're uploading more content like this, it really is about time. I hope there'll be more performances uploaded other than Top of the Pops performances too.