Which Pop Stars Will Dominate 2025?

Welcome to a brand spanking new 12 months of father superstar greatness! Our Largest Pop Stars of the twenty first Century and Largest Pop Stars of 2024 lists at the moment are over and accomplished with, however the race for 2025 has simply begun.

In this week’s episode of the Largest Pop Stars podcast, we commence the 12 months through predicting one of the most pop stars who’re perhaps to finally end up defining and dominating the following 365 days. Host Andrew Unterberger is joined through fellow Billboard staffers (and Largest Pop Stars regulars) Jason Lipshutz, Meghan Mahar and Kyle Denis to carry a fable draft for the 12 months in pop stardom, hanging in combination our dream groups of the artists we think to be in competition for our most sensible 10 listing in December.

We each and every draft our 4 most sensible pop superstar alternatives, and debate one of the most maximum urgent questions going into the 12 months in pop stardom: Will Kendrick Lamar pick out up the place he left off from his 2024 No. 1 Largest Pop Big name season? Can Taylor Swift deal with her ancient run of most sensible 5 Largest Pop Big name finishes this decade? How most likely is it that BTS will get again in combination in time to get again within the dialogue? Then, we additionally make a couple of bonus alternatives, rounding up our possible choices for artists who’re most likely going to go into the Largest Pop Big name dialogue for the primary time, and for many who are going to go back to the dialogue after being long past for the previous few years. And we finish through creating a fairly extra outside-the-box pick out for a non-artist pop superstar — a star who doesn’t make tune, however would possibly finally end up having a pop-star-type 12 months of cultural ubiquity.

Concentrate to all of that right here, and subscribe to the Largest Pop Stars podcast on Apple Track or Spotify (or anyplace you get your podcasts) for weekly discussions about all issues associated with pop stardom! We’ll have new episodes all the way through the 12 months, some checking in at the 2025 pop superstar race and recapping some large present occasions in pop stardom — new releases, award presentations, large excursion kickoffs — and a few having a look again at nice moments and nice runs in pop superstar historical past.