It’s midyear season at Billboard, with our 50 best albums and 50 greatest songs of the 12 months up to now going reside earlier this week. Now that we’re about midway by the 2025 calendar, it additionally appeared like a very good time to look again on the 12 months up to now in pop stardom — who’s excelled, who’s disenchanted, who’s been surprisingly invisible and who might nonetheless come again in a giant approach to outline 2025 by 12 months’s finish.
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On this week’s Greatest Pop Stars podcast, host Andrew Unterberger is joined by the three Billboard staffers (Kyle Denis, Meghan Mahar and Jason Lipshutz) who appeared again in January to take part in our first-ever Greatest Pop Stars Fantasy Draft, the place the 4 of us every drafted our personal groups of pop stars who we thought would go on to outline 2025. On this episode, we every revisit our rosters, and dimension up how every of our pop stars has finished up to now — and in addition discuss who’s main the 2025 race on the whole, and predict some artists who may nonetheless enter the dialogue earlier than 12 months’s finish.
Alongside the best way, after all, we ask all a very powerful questions concerning the first six months in 2025 pop stardom: Why does 2025 nonetheless really feel a lot like an extension of 2024? Does the success of “Nokia” excuse drafting Drake over Kendrick Lamar? The place is Harry Kinds? Did Bruno Mars secretly launch his greatest music in a decade with a one-minute baile funk one-off nobody appears to find out about? Is Sabrina Carpenter coming again to run s–t? Is Cardi B? And maybe most significantly — the place does Benson Boone match into all of this?
Test it out above, and subscribe to the Greatest Pop Stars podcast on Apple Music or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts) for weekly discussions each Thursday about all issues associated to pop stardom!
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