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The 30 best boyband members – ranked!

From the Osmonds’ Donny to BTS’s Jimin, boybands have produced some brilliant performers behind the hair gel. Ahead of the release of Zayn Malik’s new album, we list the greatestIs erstwhile Blue also-ran Antony Costa purely on this list because, in...

Reclining album sales? Why pop stars are making sofas not songs

From Louise Redknapp’s footstools to Kylie’s Atmosphere Duvet, an increasing number of musicians are turning to home furnishingsModern Toss on music and furnitureBeing a pop star has a shelf life. Sure, you can carry on chucking records out for ever...

Rosalía: El Mal Querer review – flamenco-pop star is a formidable new talent

The Catalan singer’s potent, smart second album is more complex than any Latin pop currently in the charts: she’s a gamechangerThere was a time, not that long ago, when the second album by a twentysomething Catalan singer held to be revolutionising t...

'We were sad of getting old': how pop stars are growing up gracefully

From Florence Welch to Matt Healy, Lily Allen to Neneh Cherry, it is becoming acceptable for pop stars to mature and make music about itIn 2012, before her first memoir told us the truth about punk, childbirth and what it’s like to nearly die, Viv Al...

Victim? Survivor? After 20 years of Britney Spears, the jury’s still out| Bidisha

The pop star has often seemed like a hired hand for people behind the scenes. But there’s still time to find her true voiceTwenty years ago a teenage Britney Spears launched herself – or, to be fair, was launched – by a song and video made by middle-...

Rosalía review – flamenco dragged thrillingly into the 21st century

Village Underground, LondonRepackaging an age-old art form for a modern audience is a risky business – but the Catalan executes it with aplomb in an evening of gloriously global popAs Latin pop continues to send shockwaves through the charts, young a...

Sexy hardback: what will the Justin Timberlake autobiography be like?

With the pop star’s new book, Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me, on its way, here are some (imagined) extractsModern Toss on celeb biographiesWhen I first sang, “It’s gonna be MAY!”, I remember the guys from ‘NSync being like:...

Now that's what I call a tracklist: how the compilation's 100th edition sells its history short

Now That’s What I Call Music’s 100th edition includes a greatest hits disc that favours the arena titans – overlooking the pleasure of rediscovering the one-hit wonders and sub-genres buried in these pop time capsulesReleased on 20 July, the 100th ed...

Justin Timberlake review – pop's constant dancer grows old gracefully

O2 Arena, London Some scoffed at his Man of the Woods project, but its country-soul proves a classy way for the Tennessee boy to enter the next phase of his pop careerBeing in a boy band might be the time of your life, for a while, but after a few ye...

Tout rout: stars come out to close down ticket resellers

Acts such as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are trying to ensure fans pay only face value to see themRecent UK headlines paint a picture of chaos in the world of major pop concerts: fans of Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, the Rolling Stones, Beyoncé and Jay-Z...

Mabel: ‘I find camping difficult. Someone pooed in my tent once’

The pop star on harrowing tent experiences, phone battery panic and other festival related fun What do you remember about your first festival experience?I went to lots when I was a kid because of my parents [singer Neneh Cherry and producer Cameron M...

Shaggy and Sting, Janet and Cliff: the eight weirdest collaborations in pop

From Janet Jackson and Cliff Richard’s Two to the Power of Love, to Shaggy and Sting’s new record, here’s a rundown of the oddest musical melangesModern Toss on dodgy pop collaborationsHave you ever wondered, perhaps in a darker moment, what an album...