Popjustice

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Popjustice

Type of site	Music blog, online forum
Available in	English
Owner	Peter Robinson (editor)
Created by	Peter Robinson, various
URL	www.popjustice.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Forum required
Launched	2000
Current status	Online

Popjustice is a music website founded in 2000 by UK freelance music journalist Peter Robinson, who has worked for NME, The Guardian, Attitude and many others. It is composed of the work of editor Robinson, features editor Michael Cragg, and a host of contributors.^[1]

The website seeks to celebrate commercial popular music and does this using humour, user interaction, and contacts within the music industry. Its writing style has been compared favourably by a number of critics^{[like whom?]} to that of the now defunct Smash Hits magazine, in that it mixes a passion for pop music with a surreal and biting wit.

The website was relaunched in January 2006 with more features, music downloads and online shop. In November 2006 Popjustice won a Record of the Day PR & Music Journalism Award in the Best Online Music Publication category, with another individual award going to Peter Robinson in the Breaking Music: Writer Of The Year category.

After a semi-hiatus since mid-2021^[2] and two posts during 2022, as of 2023^[update], the journalism component of the website has migrated to Substack,^[3][4] with the Popjustice forums remaining at the original location.