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Was 2010 Kesha the Brightest Star From an All-Time Pop Year?
This Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast looks at Kesha's incredible 2010, an awesome run during an all-time great pop year.
Kesha Rose Sebert — then known as Ke$ha — had crashed the pop music landscape (and the charts) with the suddenly inescapable breakout hit “Tik Tok,” capturing the first Hot 100 No. In the process, she not only set the tone and tempo for the turbo-pop of the early 2010s, she kicked off a streak of hits that would take her all through 2010 and even into 2011 — a run that, while treasured by pop fans, feels a little underappreciated from a 2025 vantage, since it ended a little more abruptly and dramatically than anyone would’ve hoped for. We follow her 2010 from her “Tik Tok” breakthrough to her run of Animal singles and its Cannibal bonus EP — a year which ultimately resulted in six top 10 Hot 100 hits, one No.
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