by staff | Jan 16, 2026 | Entertainment News
This podcast episode is part of the Billboard editorial staff’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 list. Find all our essays and podcasts related to the list here. Related Billboard Staff’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2025: Comeback Artist of the Year — Clipse ‘Heated...
by staff | Jan 16, 2026 | Entertainment News
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 2025, starting on Monday (Jan. 19). Before that, we revealed our Honorable Mentions for 2025 on...
by staff | Jan 16, 2026 | Entertainment News
This podcast episode is part of the Billboard editorial staff’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 list. Find all our essays and podcasts related to the list here. At the beginning of 2025, Olivia Dean was still a mostly unfamiliar name to stateside pop fans. She’d seen some...
by staff | Jan 16, 2026 | Entertainment News
BTS’s fifth full-length album will arrive on March 20. That much we already knew. We now know the collection will be titled Arirang. “Arirang” is a traditional Korean folk song renowned, according to a statement from BigHit Music, which delivered an update on the...
by staff | Jan 16, 2026 | Entertainment News
For his next trick, Charlie Puth takes us for a ride back to the late 1980s. Maybe early 1990s. Dropping at midnight, “Beat Yourself Up” is brassy, bass-y, catchy, and could’ve stepped right out of a time when the Detroit Pistons were beating everyone up in the NBA,...