Michael Bublé

With a nod to the past and an eye to the future, Michael Bublé is 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 posh and smoky "Fever," the super-swinging "The Way You Look Tonight," the Latin-lounge of "Sway"— 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, while on a club-time Junkie XL Remix of the "Spider-Man Theme," Bublé goes blockbuster.

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Bend your ears to the new-school swing of a live "Summer Wind" or a rowdy "I've Got the World On a String," and you might just think you hear the second coming of Sinatra and 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 a fantabulous cover of Van Morrison's silver-light seduction "Moondance" and a debonair update of the '70s-soul confession "Me and Mrs. Jones."

When Michael Bublé sings the swanky, man-about-town standard "Call Me Irresponsible," he's not trying to cash in on a post-rock nostalgia; Bublé comes by his retro cred honestly, with a childhood spent not just soaking in 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 ("Quando, Quando, Quando," with fellow Vancouver, Canadian Nelly Furtado) to sassy big-band stands like "Feeling Good."