Michael Bublé

With a nod to the past and an eye on the future, Michael Bublé has become his own kind of crooner. The Vancouver native was raised on the sounds of big band, but while he's only too happy to apply his young man's old-soul pipes to popular standards — a classy and smoky "Cry Me a River", a fantabulous cover of Van Morrison's silver-light seduction "Moondance" — he isn't content to let it ride on the retro. His co-penned single "Home" gives a modern spin to the art of the bittersweet ballad, and both the 2009 single “Haven’t Met You Yet” and 2010‘s supremely catchy “Hollywood” find him striding confidently into the global pop charts.

Swing into Next Steps for more Michael Bublé, as our Canadian crooner salutes Queen.

Bend your ears to the new-school swing of a live "Summer Wind" or a rowdy live version "I've Got the World On a String" (recorded in Madison Square Garden) and you might just think you’re hearing the second comings of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin. But while Michael Bublé pays fair tribute to those heroes of popular song, he's not ready to let us forget that, in terms of the modern day, he's the man. He proves it with the Latin-lounge of "Sway" and with the way he reworks on Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” — on his self-titled 2003 major label debut album — into a polished swing band classic, dripping charisma by the bucketload.

Bublé doubles the pleasure with an extra helping of duets, in Deep Cuts.

We know that Michael Bublé owns the spotlight like few of his contemporaries — just soak up that audience reaction to his brassy, rockin’ cover of the Eagles’ “Heartache Tonight” . . . it’s positively Beatles-esque — but he’s equally good when sharing the attention, and here we’ve pooled some of his greatest duet partners, including country star Blake Shelton, whose sturdy gatepost of a vocal allows Bublé to hang all his emotional power on the line; Italian pop goddess Laura Pausini, alighting like an exotic songbird on Bublé’s gilded branch with “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”; and Anne Murray, pouring the seasonal cream on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”.

Michael Bublé knows his way round a standard, but he's not trying to cash in on some kind of post-rock nostalgia — the charismatic Canadian comes by his retro cred honestly, with a childhood spent not just soaking up the sounds of great popular singers like Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin, but also perfecting his own polished way with a song. With a voice that's as rich and glossy as it is young and fresh, Bublé launches tunes like "Come Fly With Me" to a whole new level, then turns around and steeps a track like "Everything" in contemporary pop perfection. Get the best of Bublé's yesterday and today tunes with one easy download, from longing love songs (a heart-stopping "Lost") to two-to-tango duets ("Wonderful Tonight" with Brazil’s Ivan Lins) and sassy big-band numbers like "Feeling Good".