Here are my top 20 singles of August, compiled into a poptastic playlist for your enjoyment. I hope you discover some new favourites! I’ve also compiled all the songs from this year’s monthly charts so far into an ongoing Spotify playlist (or the ones that are available, at least), which you can listen to here.… Continue reading Top of the Poptastic: The best singles of August 2014
Month: August 2014
Song of the Week: Hunter Hayes – Tattoo
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. When I first wrote about young country singer Hunter Hayes, I declared him the “male Taylor Swift” and I’ve been waiting for him to release a great pop song ever since. His biggest hit Wanted was pretty dreary, but at last he’s come up… Continue reading Song of the Week: Hunter Hayes – Tattoo
Future Hits: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's playlist features five catchy new pop singles which I think will be future hits. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux-w5UTPtZXFwkLHzat0vsP7] Tracklisting: Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass Becky G – Shower Fuse ODG ft. Angel – T.I.N.A. Jessie J ft. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj –… Continue reading Future Hits: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Future Stars: Hana (Unsigned)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. It’s rare to discover a pop act who has undergone very little artist development yet has a collection of songs that are all good enough to be played on the radio, but I did just that while reading this week’s Record of the Day magazine. 14-year-old… Continue reading Future Stars: Hana (Unsigned)
Future Stars: LuvBug (Global/Polydor)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Over the past year the charts have been dominated by dance tracks which may have seemed, to the average person, to have come from nowhere, but actually they had built up a buzz over months or years of popularity in the clubs and online.… Continue reading Future Stars: LuvBug (Global/Polydor)
Song of the Week: Dami Im – Gladiator
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. In 2013, Dannii Minogue was victorious in her first year as a judge on The X Factor Australia with Korean-born singer Dami Im, and Dami has gone on to forge a successful career after her win. She topped the ARIA charts with her single… Continue reading Song of the Week: Dami Im – Gladiator
Future Hits: Boy Meets Girl
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. This week's playlist features five new singles by male artists who've enlisted female singers to create a future hit. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux91IGUZ-G80hwEPB-u5t5fn] Tracklisting: DJ Fresh ft. Ellie Goulding – Flashlight Pharrell ft. Miley Cyrus – Come Get It Bae Usher ft. Nicki Minaj – She Came… Continue reading Future Hits: Boy Meets Girl
Future Stars: Vance Joy (Atlantic)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I considered featuring Vance Joy (Australian singer James Keogh) as a Future Star back in November, but I was convinced his catchy indie-folk single Riptide was the making of a one-hit wonder. I chose the song as a Future Hit and left it at that.… Continue reading Future Stars: Vance Joy (Atlantic)
Future Stars: Petite Meller (Night Beach)
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Thanks to the trend for anonymity and mystery, the indie-pop world seems to be lacking in fun, quirky characters these days. Luckily, we can always depend on the French for a dose of stylish eccentricity. Petite Meller is a pretty blonde model/philosophy student making… Continue reading Future Stars: Petite Meller (Night Beach)
Song of the Week: The Janoskians – This Freakin Song
Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. YouTube pranksters-turned-popstars The Janoskians had the chance to be the first huge Australian boyband stolen from under their noses by 5 Seconds of Summer (or perhaps by themselves when they called their tour "#notaboyband"), but I think there’s still a place for them in pop.… Continue reading Song of the Week: The Janoskians – This Freakin Song