Kiss – Carly Rae Jepsen – (Universal Music) Rs. 295/-

Canadian pop sensation Carly Rae Jepsen releases her second album after “Tug of War” (2008) with a sound resplendent of the likes of early 2000s when Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, Kelly Clarkson and now Selena Gomez and a few others made their mark. “Kiss” manages to bring out a few potential radio hits, but as an album, it is nothing more than average pop fare.

1989 – Taylor Swift – (Universal Music) – Rs. 395/-

Swift has carefully marked her space in the music world. Coming on the scene in 2006 with a country packed self-titled set, she then worked hard to move onto more pop songs with albums like ‘Fearless,’ hitting the Grammys on ‘Speak Now,’ ‘Red’ which marked a totally new Swift a more mature and a better songwriting mindset.

Max Hits 2015 – Various Artists – (Sony Music) Rs. 499/-

The Max Hits year end releases are something to look forward to. It's the best compilation having all your hits on one mind blowing CD. If you have already ripped off these hits and put them on your phone, you can still own the physical copy for your collection of best of 2015.

The Best of 2015 – Various Artists – (Universal Music) – Rs. 395/-

Here are the tunes that have been on heavy rotation this year. The music industry usually saves its biggest compilation releases to midyear or the first six months. From the very popular pop stars chart topping all over the world to brand new artists making a wave on the hit parade, the year has plenty of contenders for end-of-year best-of lists that defy easy categorization.

Never Been Better – Olly Murs (Deluxe Edition) – (Sony Music) – Rs. 599/-

After Ed Sheeran, its Olly Murs who is creating a sensation in the UK and a few parts in America too. Here in India, Murs has a fan following too, his previous hits ‘Dance with me’ and ‘Troublemaker’, making part of playlist all over. Olly’s new release ‘Never Been Better’, has a brand new set of songs in this album of 13 songs and four bonus tracks, where he brings in a few guests artists.

Title – Meghan Trainor – (Sony Music) Rs. 499/-

Meghan Trainor helped make the booty big in 2014 with her body-positive smash hit the phenomenal All About That Bass. While the 21-year-old singer with expressive eyes rocks on her debut full length album, her finger snapping songs are a super hit with teenyboppers. While body expressive songs have become the order of the day with Sia, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift flaunting their body in every possible way, Trainor seems to take a step out of it and prove that she also has that oomph material.

To be Loved – Michael Buble – (EMI Virgin) -Rs. 395/-

Despite his penchant for making music using other people’s songs, and being labeled a tribute act, Buble has managed to be loved and gain a massive fan following. That, in a nutshell, would be the cool and calm vocalist Michael Buble (pronounced Boo-blay) who has a gift for making some of the greatest songs of all time entirely his own.

Girl who got away – Dido (Sony Music) Rs. 499/-

Dido has always penned her feelings in her songs, be it in her debut ‘No Angel’ (1999), ‘Life for Rent ‘(2003) and ‘Safe trip Home’ (2009). Her latest work is no different. The Great Britain native Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong which is Dido’s real name, is a name of a warrior queen returns after almost four years, a regular four year gap she has been keeping with, with a sound similar to her earlier effort.

In My City – (CD Single) (Universal Music) – Rs. 75/-

Femina Miss India World 2000, Bollywood starlet and now pop singer, Priyanka Chopra recently unveiled her first ever English international single ‘In my City’ feat. Will.i.am at a city hotel. At first one wondered whether it was truly our ‘desi’ actress singing. The song is very western with no traces of any Indian element whatsoever.

Handwritten – Shawn Mendes – (Universal Music) – Rs. 295/-

The new lad on the music block is Shawn Peter Raul Mendes better known as Shawn Mendes who one day discovered Vine (Vine is a short-form video sharing service), a far cry to the immensely popular YouTube, wherein on Vine the service lets users record and edit up to six-second-long looping video clips.