Recent UK and Europe Pop

I had no idea Whigfield were still going.

Alba you would love "Was A Time", it's sad, glammy and vaguely Celtic schaffel-pop! Up there with "Hot Love" and "Durch Die Nacht (Wasserman Mix)" in the winsomely sweet stakes.

How about Natasha Bedingfield's 'These Words'?

Will have to download this next time I'm at my parent's place.

i think Bertine Zetlitz and Teddybears STHLM are big in their own countries if not anyone else's (so 'Fake Your Beauty' and 'Cobrastyle' might be worth including, although the latter are a bit rocky).

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01VB09UL0WFF72901SEUFV1VQC

-> if ever you're in desperate need to prove a belgian pop idol loser could make it. :-)

Re: Girls Aloud - 'Graffiti My Soul' as well?

Javine - Best Of My Love
Alcazar - This Is The World We Live In
Verbalicious - Don't Play Nice
Amy Winehouse - Fuck Me Pumps (original and Mylo mix), Amy Amy Amy, Stronger Than Me
Blue - Bubblin'
Kasia Klich - Lepszy Model (a couple of years old but so so good: imagine Polish sophisto-pop take on Lina)

I suppose The 411 and Jamelia would be too R&B here.

Some may have been mentioned or are already known:

Bodies Without Organs - 16 Tonnes of Hardware (specifically, the remix that's a bonus track on the album)
Christian Forss - Unforgettable (Ewing and Raposa liked this, even!)
Cortez vs X-Ray feat. Lemon Juice - What U Get Is What U C
Da Buzz - Dangerous
Elize - Automatic
Bomfunk MCs - Hypnotic (MUCH better than their famous-outside-Europe hits)
Natalia - I've Only Begun To Fight
Hitch Hike - Travel Girl (A more psychedelic Xenomania-esque thing)
Loto - Back To Discos (possibly my favourite single of the decade)
Marly - You Never Know
Kate Ryan - Libertine
Novaspace - So Lonely
Paps'n'Skar - Mirage (La Luna)
Bertine Zetlitz - Ah-Ah (Sounds like "Buffalo Stance"! Yes!)
September - September All Over
Tess - The Second You Sleep (TRANCE cover of snoozy indie rock choon)
Universal Poplab - Bedhead (The 00s Pet Shop Boys! Almost.)

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Y3583EQSH3P50UXWW71R0WWWO

ace French discofied R&B-not-R&B!

and now for some fake French pop! well, In-Grid sings in French but her producers are Italian. she hit big few years ago with "Tu Es Foutu", one of those curious cases of pan-european dance smashes that didn't cross over to the UK (or did it?). anyway, "Je Ne Crois Pas" is a track from her '03 debut album, and it's a classy, wonderful piece of mediterranean pop house.

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01OC647D9U9FU1LZLY7LX9TZTH

Tim, if you haven't made the compilation yet, i suggest you consider this - it would sit nicely next to "Was a Time".

everyone else - get that Nadiya track too! trust me, it's a stormer.

Tim, if you drop me an email with your address, I'd be happy to send you a CD-R full of this kind of thang.

possibly a dumb question but i need guidance! i'm after a cannier way of keeping up to date on current pop music. i don't listen to the radio *that* much, but it's usually kiss fm during the day when im cooking, this is the kind of stuff i'm looking for. what websites or ilx threads track what is big & decent in the charts?

i know the radio 1 top40 site has links to clips of each track but that seems like a chore and i can't be doing with having to wade through mush like one direction. mostly interested in the club-friendly hard-hitting stuff, guetta, minaj, pitbull, redone, tinie tempah, etc but also the more pop stuff like maroon5, fun., etc.

i'd be super grateful for any pointers!

oh ianpaws, maroon 5? how you have changed mr stooge!

it's a weird one. initially balked at that jagger track but i've been djing this big mainstream club in town for a few months now and playing that song out and seeing everyone whoop for joy has kinda burned into my head as a 'this is a good' pavlovian thingy y'know? i've become a real torchbearer for populism lately, fierce defender of shaz and baz's right to have a fucking good time.

don't worry though, i've been listenin to naught but steely dan and dorothy moore this past week. balanced.

anyway stop making me justify myself! can you recommend a site/thread?

I'm surprised there's no ilm thread that covers it tbh.
I want a time machine to go back 12 years and show you future-ian. I wonder what you would say.

only site i've heard of, is the one the lex hates, popjustice. Would that cover what you're after?

no, PJ isn't really 'towny' enough if you know what i mean. it has a really idealised take on pop that doesn't really reflect what's out there, and certainly not the tastes of my beloved shaz & baz.

can't really think of many sites like that! mostly it's either mp3 blogs/facebook pages that post endless streams of new stuff regardless of whether it eventually charts, or Popjustice-type locales with tunnel vision... of blogs i follow, this one by a US gay club DJ is i guess the closest thing i can think of:

http://mosuniverse.com/blogs/taj/

tho you'd probably be better off just hitting up random big hits on youtube and checking out the most viewed stuff from the suggestions sidebar

yeah i think i might have to bite the bullet and start checking out the uk top40 page. the music news/reviews page on digitalspy gives a fair idea of who's big out there at the moment. just weird because some songs that are big in the clubs or on radio don't do so well in the charts. complicated process to keep tabs on all this