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Billboard Staff’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2024: Honorable Mentions
Our staff's picks for the Greatest Pop Stars of 2024 begins with our 10 honorable mentions picks.
Read on below for our best-of-the-rest picks in alphabetical order, and apologies to all the veteran hitmakers and rising phenoms whose presence we couldn’t make room for with just 10 honorable mention spots — for more about those, listen to our Greatest Pop Stars podcast episode later this week, as we discuss some of the names it killed us the most to leave off. Nominated for two Grammys (including song of the year), “Die with a Smile” was a winning duet — and in October, Mars would follow it up with another one in “APT.,” a delightfully bratty, Ting Tings-evoking link-up with BLACKPINK solo star ROSÉ, which also reached the Hot 100’s top 10 (No. 2 on the Billboard 200 — and still ranks in the chart’s top 10 nearly half a year later — while increasingly sizeable crossover hits “Close to You,” “I Love You, I’m Sorry” and “That’s So True” made her a fixture on streaming and radio, and a just-announced arena tour for 2025 confirmed she’d graduated to headliner status.
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