Purists have criticised Universal's penchant for using Island as a catch-all label for pop acts the Sugababes or The Feeling in recent years, but Blackwell has maintained a dignified silence, even if he remarked: "Once you've sold something, that's usually it".
I've travelled the world and all these different countries and pop acts that are just money pumped into it.
Like all good single-gender pop acts, BigBang has a self-evident chemistry from the moment the lads walk on stage (a moment that, in Anaheim, was preceded by a great Quentin Tarantino-style car-chase-gunfight movie starring the band).
Given how jaded most people have become about nineties and noughties pop acts reuniting, from All Saints to the Libertines, the excitement around David's return is extraordinary.
Pop Metal is sometimes a favorite of critics, however not all Pop Metal acts can be classified as Glam or Hair Metal (Def Leppard, Bon Jovi & Whitesnake are all Pop Metal).
So, with all this dusting off of music from the Reagan administration, which pop acts are going to be next for their big shot treading the boards?
All those groups in the 80s that I liked, like the Go-Betweens, Felt and the June Brides, considered themselves pop acts.
Pop acts tend to suffer the most.
A long list of pop acts were scratched on Tuesday.
But big-name pop acts get attention too.
