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Which Pop Stars Defined the First Half of 2025?


This week's Greatest Pop Stars episode looks back at the defining pop stars from the first six months of 2025.

Kendrick Lamar performs for the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show on Feb. 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA. In this episode, we each revisit our rosters, and size up how each of our pop stars has done so far — and also talk about who’s leading the 2025 race in general, and predict some artists who might still enter the discussion before year’s end. Did Bruno Mars secretly release his best song in a decade with a one-minute baile funk one-off no one seems to know about?

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