Billie Eilish, Beyoncé & Extra

This week at the Largest Pop Stars podcast, now we have begun unveiling the highest 10 of our Largest Pop Stars of 2024 checklist — and already, now we have some completely iconic artists with in point of fact unforgettable 2024 runs to speak about, even within the decrease stretches of this checklist.

Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by way of Billboard senior director of tune, Jason Lipshutz and Senior Charts/Knowledge Analyst Eric Frankenberg to run throughout the 2024 instances for our Nos. 10 thru 7 artists, which we unveiled Monday and Tuesday (Dec. 16-17) this week. We begin with Jelly Roll, a rustic hitmaker whose presence on a Largest Pop Stars checklist may admittedly be slightly sudden. We run down the case for him being taken significantly as a 2024 pop famous person and why we in the end felt he needed to be on our checklist, whilst additionally recalling probably the most unlikelier puts popped up this yr and why we really feel like the largest remains to be but to return from Jelly Roll.

Then (at 21:30), we get to the yr in our No. 9 Largest Pop Big name, Billie Eilish. We begin by way of overlaying the essentially obtrusive: that it’s kinda insane and perhaps indefensible {that a} pop famous person as transparently nice (and who had as massive a 2024) as Billie Eilish may finally end up so low in this checklist. Nonetheless, we get into the criteria that resulted in her showing so early in our rollout, and talk about whether or not Eilish — who hasn’t ever been named our No. 1 Largest Pop Big name of a given yr — may one day seize that crown.

Subsequent (at 38:00), we quilt Submit Malone‘s 2024 as a rebranded nation big name. We talk about whether or not or now not Submit necessarily wanted a yr as giant as this after a fairly slower business begin to the last decade, then get into “I Had Some Assist” and F-1 Trillion and the issues that made his yr so huge. We additionally debate what it’s about him that assists in keeping the opposite largest pop stars on this planet stay achieving out to him for key collabs, and whether or not he must stick round in nation for slightly longer within the years yet to come — or check out his hand in but every other new style.

In spite of everything (at 59:30), we take at the yr in Beyoncé, our group of workers’s contemporary pick out for the Largest Pop Big name of all of the twenty first Century up to now. We read about how the Queen was once in a position to stay elevating the bar for each herself and for all of father stardom in 2024 along with her Cowboy Carter undertaking — and debate whether or not there’s any benefit to the speculation of the album being somewhat of an underperformer by way of her requirements, both in business returns or replay worth — and in addition take into accout how Bey ruled the yr’s headlines for what she didn’t do up to what she did. Then, we sit up for her upcoming efficiency on Netflix all through NFL Christmas halftime, and (perhaps) make some Grammy predictions.

Take a look at all of it out above, and remember to test again on Friday as we recap the artists that completed in our Nos. 6 thru 3 spots — some completely heartbreaking calls to make there — ahead of revealing our brutally tricky choice for the highest two Largest Pop Stars of 2024 on Monday, Dec. 23.