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[Feanor]

 

Billboard Staff's Greatest Pop Stars of 2024

 

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For this year's update of our ongoing Greatest Pop Star by Year project, Billboard will be counting down our editorial staff picks for the 10 Greatest Pop Stars of 2024 all this week

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First, though: our obligatory reminder that unlike with our Year-End Charts, these Greatest Pop Stars are not mathematically determined by stats like chart position, streams or sales numbers. Those all play a big part in our final rankings, of course — but so do things like music videos, live performances and social media presence, and more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. (And we measure this over the entire 2024 calendar, so if you were only heard from at the beginning or end of the year — or only had one big song or moment — that's gonna hurt your performance here as well.)

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Honorable Mentions:

 

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Comeback of the Year - Hozier

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We present a salute to the artist with the most impressive comeback this year: Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, who took his slowly built cult stardom back overground with one of the year's defining pop hits and his biggest year of touring and live appearances yet.

 

 

Rookie of the Year - Shaboozey

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We present a salute to the artist to the artist who crashed the mainstream for the first time in the biggest way this year: country singer-songwriter Shaboozey, who seized the spotlight from one of the most crowded pop classes in modern pop history and etched his name into the Billboard record books.

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The Top 10…

 

No. 10 - Jelly Roll

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At No. 10, we remember the year in Jelly Roll — a late-blooming country superstar whose compelling hits, winning personality and relatable story helped him become one of the most unavoidable artists of 2024.

 

 

No. 9 - Billie Eilish

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At No. 9, we remember the year in Billie Eilish — who continued one of the great pop star runs of the past decade with a year that felt like her really coming into her own in particularly new and rewarding ways.

 

 

No. 8 - Post Malone

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Now, at No. 8, we remember the year in Post Malone — who resumed his old winning ways with a turn towards an entirely new genre.

 

 

 No. 7 - Beyoncé

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At No. 7, we remember the year in Beyoncé — who returned with one of the year's most ambitious albums and change the game yet again.

 

 

No. 6 & 5 to be revealed tomorrow…

 

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Billboard Staff's pick for "The Greatest Pop Star" of every year since 1981…

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1981 - Blondie

1982 - John Mellencamp

1983 - Michael Jackson

1984 - Prince

1985 - Madonna

1986 - Whitney Houston

1987 - Bon Jovi

1988 - George Michael

1989 - Madonna

 

1990 - Janet Jackson

1991 - Mariah Carey

1992 - Nirvana

1993 - Janet Jackson

1994 - Boyz II Men

1995 - TLC

1996 - Alanis Morissette

1997 - Puff Daddy

1998 - Backstreet Boys

1999 - Britney Spears

 

2000 - *NSYNC

2001 - Jennifer Lopez

2002 - Eminem

2003 - Beyoncé

2004 - Usher

2005 - Kanye West

2006 - Justin Timberlake

2007 - Rihanna

2008 - Lil Wayne

2009 - Lady Gaga

 

2010 - Katy Perry

2011 - Adele

2012 - Rihanna

2013 - Miley Cyrus

2014 - Beyoncé

2015 - Taylor Swift

2016 - Justin Bieber

2017 - Ed Sheeran

2018 - Drake

2019 - Ariana Grande

 

2020 - BTS

2021 - Taylor Swift

2022 - Bad Bunny
2023 - Taylor Swift

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Feanor

[piotrert]

billie seems low? should be top5 easily imo. 

[dangerousbutera]

Billie feels too low. Sabrina is a lock for #1 surely

[tost1]

Beyonce #1, Taylor N/A

 

 

[Gorjesspazze9]

Billie should be top 5

Sabrina or Taylor probably taking it. Also Charlie is top 3. 
 

 

Drake as a Honorable mention. Oh they must be going off streams cuz this been the most embarrassing year for him. Not just Kendrick ruining his legacy, but Drake dropped several songs that flopped and were memes to hell this year 

[K$Ellie]

billie being just below jelly roll??

[liam13]

my bet is on charli or beyonce for number 1 spot.

[Klein]

I expected Billie to be at least top 5 tbh. She's had a formidable year with HMHAS and BOAF especially. 

[Wicked]

Kendrick and Charli should be at the top, what a year for both

[Parachutes]

So the remaining 8 (no particular order) are probably Taylor, Beyoncé, Ariana, Chappell, Sabrina, Kendrick, Charli, Post Malone? Among these feel like it'll be Sabrina. Would also place Billie above some of these names for sure. 

[OrgVisual]

Jelly Roll

 

And I stop reading there

 

[Dear Reader]

Not another list 

 

Billie definitely deserves top 3, it's starting bad 

[Kyoto]

She won a ******* OSCAR this year and she is next to jelly roll? Who the **** is jelly roll?

[CherryBay]

Billie #9 ? 

 

should be at least top3

 

Taylor and Charlie and Sabrina top 3 probably

[XVIIII]

Years ending in "9" are iconic af

[By the Water]

Here we go again. The way the #1 is so predictable

 

[Dash_inthedark]

Billie at #9 is just wrong. WTF Billboard.
 

Edited yesterday at 12:30 PM by Dash_inthedark

[AshleyLovescats887]

Jelly Roll??? Seriously?  the random set up 

[GAGAISTHEBESTYA]

Who is... 

[NEUTRON]

Kendrick

Beyonce

Sabrina

Chappell

Charli

Taylor

Posty

Ari?

Gaga?

[LosingHimWasBlue]

Beyonce above Billie?

another "vibe" winning i guess

[Calvin]

21 minutes ago, LosingHimWasBlue said:

Beyonce above Billie?

another "vibe" winning i guess

Huh? Billie debuted later 

[Catch22]

Billie only at #9? This staff is unserious again 

[Rep2000]

5 hours ago, By the Water said:

Here we go again. The way the #1 is so predictable

 

They definitely hired some ATRLers, cuz this new obsession with subjective rankings is so ATRL-coded.

[bad guy]

So is Billboard going off vibes now because Billie being #9 when she's the biggest female artist after Taylor doesn't math very well