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though of course, even an off-cycle for Ariana still involves her showing up in millions of living rooms on a weekly basis as a coach on The Voice.īillie Eilish Kelia Anne MacCluskey BILLIE EILISH Why Not Top 10? After nearly three years of being in the limelight practically non-stop, Grande definitely took it relatively easy with her own pop career for the year’s back half, and consequently, her 2021 lives a little in the shadow of her ’18-’20. 2 on the year-end chart - one of three top 25 entries there for Ariana. Meanwhile, Grande did a solid for her Republic labelmate The Weeknd by appearing on the remix to his “Save Your Tears,” helping the smash top the Hot 100 and end up at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after its remix, while the TikTok-approved “pov” found late success on radio, ultimately climbing to No. That album received a deluxe edition reissue in February, featuring a new remix of the original set’s “34+35,” with assists from fellow stars Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat and an absolute blast of a music video. Their Year in Pop: Billboard‘s Greatest Pop Star of 2019 kept her momentum rolling well into 2020, and started 2021 still deep in the promo push of her Positions set from the previous October. These 10 artists were critical to the year in popular music and culture, but were missing one or two critical items on their 2021 resumé to really discussed alongside the absolute tops of the pops. (And of course, playing the whole season helps: If you took some months off to start or end of the year, or had a long break in the middle, that’s not helping your MVP argument.) Our weekly and year-end charts are certainly factors, and not small ones - but so are more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. 1 Taylor SwiftĪs with our original project, we don’t use hard numbers to determine these Greatest Pop Stars. 9) before launching into the proper countdown.Ĭomeback of the Year: Willow | Rookie of the Year: Olivia Rodrigo | No. We’ll also make our picks for Rookie of the Year and Comeback of the Year, which we’ll unveil tomorrow (Dec.

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Hence, we’re blowing out the project a little bit with this year’s update: For 2021, we’re counting down a full top 10 of the year’s Greatest Pop Stars - revealed, along with year-in-review essays, over the course of the next week, until we name our No.

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