Billboard reveals the 10 greatest pop stars of 2024.
As 2024 coming to an end, Billboard has unveiled its annual Greatest Pop Star Year List, where they named Kendrick Lamar as the ranked 1 artist. The second one on the list is Sabrina Carpenter, followed by Taylor Swift at three. Drake failed to make it to the top 10, but he’s named an honourable mention.
“What made Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 so remarkable was that he didn’t just remind us of all the reasons why he was so big at his commercial and cultural peak – he showed that he could do things we’d never even seen from him before,” Billboard‘s Andrew Unterbeger wrote. “He showed that he was capable of hitting heights no other rapper had reached this decade, a period that had otherwise marked something of a downturn for the once seemingly indomitable genre’s mainstream prospects.”
He continued: “He showed that he was able to create cultural moments of both singular blunt-force impact and massive historical gravity – and then to do it again, and then again. And he showed that at his absolute best and biggest, he could dominate the streets, the charts and everywhere in between with equal sun-blocking vastness, and emerge as the winner not only when pitted against his most direct adversaries, but against any other potential peer in popular music.”
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While Drake missed it on the pop stars list, he did win three awards at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards earlier this month, which include Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Album, and Top Rap Male Artist.
Kendrick Lamar has been named the #1 ‘Greatest Pop Star’ of 2024 by Billboard. pic.twitter.com/TtxFv6MYBl
— chart data (@chartdata) December 23, 2024
Billboard names Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” verse as the best rap verse of 2024.pic.twitter.com/joKLyuKiDH
— Kendrick Lamar Updates (@KendrickChart) December 23, 2024
Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper to be named Billboard’s #1 ‘Greatest Pop Star’ of the year since Drake in 2018. pic.twitter.com/8MAqHQQv4H
— chart data (@chartdata) December 23, 2024
