2024 Honorable Mentions, Rookie & Comeback

We’re executed recapping the Biggest Pop Stars of the twenty first Century — in finding all of our previous episodes for that sequence right here — however that doesn’t imply there isn’t nonetheless a variety of Biggest Pop Stars Podcast dialogue available, as we start to dive into our annual most sensible 10 Biggest Pop Stars of the Yr checklist for 2024!

As we commence with our 2024 rollout, host Andrew Unterberger is joined via Billboard body of workers author Kyle Denis and mag options senior editor Eric Renner Brown to speak about the entire maximum vital pop stars of 2024 who didn’t relatively make the minimize for our most sensible 10. First, we zoom out on 2024 generally and speak about what made it this type of particular yr for pop song — evaluating it to probably the most different biggest years in fashionable pop historical past, and having a look on the elements that mixed to make this this type of amusing three hundred and sixty five days for song fanatics to are living thru.

Then, we do a handy guide a rough run throughout the 4 artists who made our most sensible 10 for 2023 however couldn’t relatively make our right kind checklist or our runner-ups this yr, sooner than discussing all 10 of our Honorable Point out selections for 2024. We undergo each and every in their circumstances, be offering some dissenting reviews, and speak about what they may need to do to both go back to the highest 10 or make it for the primary time subsequent yr. Then, we additionally have in mind the yr in Shaboozey and Hozier, our respective Rookie and Comeback of the Yr artists, and analyze what their pop potentialities may well be like transferring ahead. In spite of everything, we speak about probably the most honorable-mentions-to-the-honorable-mentions — some artists who it killed us to have to depart off, and a few who aren’t in point of fact within the dialogue but, however we think (and/or hope) to be elbowing their manner in there quickly.

Take a look at all of it out above, and make sure to take a look at again subsequent week as we begin to recap the artists who did make our most sensible 10 — in point of fact, essentially the most stacked yr for pop celebrity greatness that we will have in mind — sooner than revealing our brutally tricky determination for the highest two Biggest Pop Stars of 2024 on Monday, Dec. 23.