CCTV: The Nonstop Pop Show Podcast

Full "ARTPOP" Track by Track Album Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghMDlmRf0lg Lady Gaga's "Applause" had the hardest job in her whole catalogue, and in this clip Chris and Chantel Nicole give their honest review of whether it actually pulled it off. Following "Just Dance," "Bad Romance," an...

The Spice Girls story starts here. In Part 1 of our POP 101 deep dive, we break down how five strangers who answered a newspaper ad became the biggest pop group on the planet, from the Heart Management auditions and the "Touch" era all the way through their debut album “Spice” and the “Wannabe” expl...

Madonna is back on the dance floor, and her Confessions II is being called her best album in twenty years. But is the sequel to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor really the triumph everyone says it is, or is nostalgia doing the heavy lifting? Chris and Chantel Nicole give their honest, track by tr...

Thirty years ago, five women crashed a party in a London hotel and told the entire music industry exactly what they really, really wanted. Pop was never the same. In this clip, Chris and Chantel Nicole give an honest review of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" and ask whether the song that built Girl Power...

Full track-by-track review of I Am... Sasha Fierce here: Part 1: https://youtu.be/Gl-0DOvttAw Part 2: https://youtu.be/8TufQ056Cn4 Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" didn't just top the charts, it handed pop culture a hand flip that everyone from your cousin to Justin Timberlake tried to c...

Sugababes' "Three" turned the 2.0 lineup of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Heidi Range loose on their most confident album yet, and we're going track by track through all of it for a full honest review. Released on Island Records in October 2003, "Three" gave them the UK number one "Hole in the He...

SHINee are back with "Atmos," their sixth mini album and first release in about a year, dropped June 1, 2026 through SM Entertainment to mark the group's 18th anniversary. We go track by track through all six songs for a full honest review: the house-y title track "Atmos," the disco-funk of "Hours,"...

"ICONIC BY MISTAKE" by LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT, and KATSEYE is here, and HYBE just put all three girl groups in one song for the very first time. On this episode of CCTV: The Nonstop Pop Show, Chris and Chantel give their honest review of the supergroup collab, breaking down the production, the choreogra...

We flew from New York to London for our first-ever Mighty Hoopla, and Brockwell Park did NOT play around. This is our full Mighty Hoopla 2026 recap: two Americans taking on the UK's biggest pop festival for the very first time, breaking down the sets that wrecked us, the surprise guests nobody saw c...

Full track-by-track review of "The Emancipation of Mimi" here: https://youtu.be/UX5V9tSGpD0 Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" wasn't just a hit, it was the comeback that rewrote her whole story. In this clip, Chris and Chantel Nicole break down why this 2005 single from The Emancipation of Mimi be...