|
Breakaway
(2004)
more music like this
by
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson was the first American Idol winner and the first vocalist to achieve success, but her 2003 debut, Thankful, didn't completely define her outside of the parameters of the show. While the dance-pop and adult contemporary ballads on that record were fresher than the music on AmIdol, Clarkson still hadn't escaped the show's shadow ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.81!
|
|
Oops!...I Did It Again
(2000)
more music like this
by
Britney Spears
Given the phenomenal success of Britney Spears' debut, ...Baby One More Time, it should come as no surprise that its sequel offers more of the same. After all, she gives away the plot with the ingenious title of her second album, Oops!...I Did It Again, essentially admitting that the record is more of the same. It has the same combination of ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $4.95!
|
|
...Baby One More Time
(1999)
more music like this
by
Britney Spears
At the beginning of the '90s, teen currency shifted from bubblegum'n'Tiger Beat to grunge'n'Maximum Rock & Roll. Although it may have been pushed from the spotlight, teen pop hadn't died -- it, in a way, went underground, spending time on the fringes of pop culture. One of the leading lights of the exiled teen brigade was The New Mickey Mouse Club ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $6.44!
|
|
Spice
(1996)
more music like this
by
Spice Girls
Spice doesn't need to be original to be entertaining, nor do the Spice Girls need to be good singers. It just has to be executed well, and the innocuous dance-pop of Spice is infectious. None of the Girls have great voices, but they do exude personality and charisma, which is what drives bouncy dance-pop like "Wannabe," with its ridiculous "zig-a ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $7.08!
|
|
Jonas Brothers
(2007)
more music like this
by
Jonas Brothers
Almost a year to the date after their first album, It's About Time, hit stores, the Jonas Brothers delivered their eponymous sophomore record. In that year, the trio departed Daylight/Columbia and set up camp at Hollywood Records (thereby making the debut a bit of a collector's item), and they also matured a bit too. If It's About Time was overtly ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $12.05!
|
|
Thankful
(2003)
more music like this
by
Kelly Clarkson
Anybody older than 18 who's watched American Idol for any length of time will undoubtedly find the similarities between this talent contest and such square '60s/'70s variety programs like The Andy Williams Show startling and unavoidable. Whenever the kids are hauled out to sing an oldie or stumble through a production number, AmIdol goes into a ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.85!
|
|
High School Musical 2
(2007)
more music like this
by
Original Soundtrack
Making household names out of its cast -- not to mention lots and lots of money -- High School Musical was too successful not to spawn a second installment. While the original movie had a surprising amount of personality and sweetness, as well as songs that actually sounded like they could have appeared in a high-school musical, its glitzy sequel ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $4.99!
|
|
Christina Aguilera
(1999)
more music like this
by
Christina Aguilera
Since Christina Aguilera is the third and last of the New Mickey Mouse Club alumni to hit the charts in the mid-'90s -- following two members of 'N Sync and Britney Spears -- it's easy for cynical observers to assume that she was the lesser of the three talents since she arrived last after everyone scaled the charts. That's not the case at all. If ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $4.95!
|
|
Let Go
(2002)
more music like this
by
Avril Lavigne
Talk about pressure -- being under 21 and having a record deal no longer qualifies as extraordinary. And as mass-produced teen pop makes its exit and a glut of young singer/songwriters enter, child prodigies no longer have built-in marketing appeal. So if newcomer, 17-year-old Avril Lavigne truly wants to be "Anything But Ordinary," as she sings ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.05!
|
|
Can't Take Me Home
(2000)
more music like this
by
Pink
It may be hard to listen to Pink's debut album Can't Take Me Home without hearing TLC, specifically their 1999 album Fanmail. After all, L.A. Reid and Babyface were the executive producers for both albums, and they decided to use a skittering, post-jungle rhythm for the bedrock of these savvy, club-ready dance-pop productions -- a sound exploited ...
see all copies
from $2.49!
new only
from $4.10!
|
|
Hannah Montana
(2006)
more music like this
by
Hannah Montana
One of the most appealing Disney pop confections in some time, the Hannah Montana soundtrack features the show's star Miley Cyrus singing cute, well-written songs that nod to teen-pop, rock and country. Tracks like "Just Like You" borrow every gimmick that producers like the Matrix have perfected in the early 2000s: acoustic guitars that give way ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $14.56!
|
|
#1's
(2005)
more music like this
by
Destiny's Child
An honest title for this disc would be Several #1's, a Bunch of Top Tens, and a Couple New Songs , but #1's obviously has a greater -- if false -- ring to it. #1's isn't formatted any differently than scores of other anthologies packaged in time for the holiday shopping season, but it's also timely in that it comes after four Destiny's Child ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $2.17!
|
|
Measure of a Man
(2003)
more music like this
by
Clay Aiken
Justin Guarini, the runner-up on the first American Idol, released his album ten months after the competition ended and two months after Kelly Clarkson, the winner of the competition, released her debut. Clay Aiken, the runner-up on the second American Idol, released his first album, Measure of a Man, a mere five months after the close of ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
|
No Strings Attached
(2000)
more music like this
by
*NSYNC
Prior to the release of their second album, *NSYNC split from their manager in a bitter dispute and signed with Jive, the kings of teen pop. For *NSYNC, the move provided them with an opportunity to, in the immortal words of George W. Bush, "define themselves," to prove that they were an independent unit -- hence the title No Strings Attached. To ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $4.95!
|
|
Middle of Nowhere
(1997)
more music like this
by
Hanson
Sounding like a post-alternative version of the Jackson 5 -- complete with effervescent harmonies, sunny melodies, rolling hip-hop beats, and dense, layered productions -- Hanson is positively bubbling energy throughout its surprisingly infectious and melodic debut, Middle of Nowhere. It's hard not to hear the lead single, "MMMBop," or the ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.50!
|
|
Radio Disney: Move It
(2005)
more music like this
by
Disney
Radio Disney: Move It collects 15 ebullient teen pop/hip-hop/classic rock/soul explosions from its popular airwaves, including James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)," Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting," and "We Will Rock You" by Queen. Also included is a bonus CD-ROM track. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
see all copies
from $10.08!
new only
from $10.08!
|
|
Autobiography
(2004)
more music like this
by
Ashlee Simpson
Give Ashlee Simpson some credit -- she (or her management) knew that the only way to break out of the shadow of her older sister, Jessica, was to be her opposite. So, she dyed her blonde hair jet-black, based her music in rock, not dance-pop, and co-wrote every song on her 2004 debut, Autobiography (Jessica only co-wrote one on her debut, Sweet ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $6.00!
|
|
Millennium
(1999)
more music like this
by
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys finally broke (and broke big) in America during 1998, as if by design. They had been Euro sensations for a couple of years, but it wasn't until Backstreet's Back was unleashed in the U.S. in 1997 that they had a presence in the States, and it was no small presence, either -- after selling over ten million copies, the album ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $6.11!
|
|
A Walk to Remember [Bonus Tracks]
(2003)
more music like this
by
Original Soundtrack
Capitalizing on the release of Mandy Moore's Coverage album, the soundtrack to A Walk to Remember, the movie in which she had her first starring role, returns with a spate of extra tracks. Compared to the autonomy she shows on Coverage, Moore sounds a little unformed on songs like the single "Cry" and the Jonathan Foreman duet "Someday We'll Know, ...
see all copies
from $3.40!
new only
from $8.08!
|
|
Disney's Karaoke Series: Hannah Montana
(2007)
more music like this
by
Karaoke
see all copies
from $7.59!
new only
from $7.59!
|
|
The Day Has Come
(2006)
more music like this
by
Cheyenne Kimball
Bearing a name only a pop ingénue could claim as her own, Cheyenne Kimball has long been positioned to be a pop star. She first surfaced as a winner on NBC's largely forgotten 2003 series America's Most Talented Kid, arriving just at the end of the teen pop boom and in the thick of American Idol mania, and she never has lost sight of her roots: ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
|
Home for Christmas
(1998)
more music like this
by
*NSYNC
It's always a sign that a group is hot if they release a holiday album mere months after their debut. That's the case with *NSYNC. Their debut was released in America in late March, and in early December, Home for Christmas hit the shelves. Much of the album is devoted to newer material, with only a handful of songs qualifying as standards: "The ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.72!
|
|
Most Wanted
(2005)
more music like this
by
Hilary Duff
Arriving about a month before Hilary Duff turned 18 and presumably right around the time her record contract was coming to an end, 2005's Most Wanted is a tossed-off hodgepodge of seven previously released songs (including the hits "So Yesterday" and "Fly"), three new remixes (including one of the hit "Come Clean"), and three new songs. Nothing ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $4.95!
|
|
Now, Vol. 6
(2001)
more music like this
by
Various Artists
At the same time that Epic Records released the sixth volume of the American edition of the various artists hits series, Now That's What I Call Music!, Billboard was reporting that sales of singles were down 42.8% from the previous year. Sales of the previous releases in the Now series were increasing, according to the press release accompanying ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $5.12!
|
|
Schizophonic
(1999)
more music like this
by
Geri Halliwell
If anyone was going to leave the Spice Girls for a solo career, it would have been Geri Halliwell -- she was the ringleader, the brassy voice for girl power. Ironically, as the Spice Girls regrouped and found a new voice, Halliwell seemed a little lost. She dove head-first into maturity, dressing in sensible suits and becoming, of all things, a ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $15.68!
|