Top Pops (newspaper)

Top Pops, not to be confused with Top of the Pops, was a British weekly pop music newspaper which was published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Top Pops was founded initially as a three-weekly publication by Woodrow Wyatt in May 1967, becoming fortnightly in November 1967 and weekly in June 1968. It was unusual for including colour content from its first issue, but found it hard to compete with its rivals, partly because it was initially based in Abingdon, not London. On 20 September 1969 the paper was rebranded. by the then incumbent editor John Halsall, Top Pops & Music Now and subsequently became Music Now after a staff buyout in March 1970. In May 1971 the newspaper ceased publication.