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Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century Podcast: Justin Bieber (No. 8)
Our new Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century Podcast episode is on Justin Bieber, who defined teen-pop stardom in the YouTube age.
8 of our list with a teen-pop phenom who created absolute pandemonium among young fans at the turn of the 2010s — and then grew with his fanbase into adult pop stardom in the decade that followed. Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard staffers Josh Glicksman and Kristen Wisneski to talk about how Justin Bieber first became a 21st century icon as a teenager, with old-fashioned pop skills with a new-school marketing plan. Then, of course, we delve his all-time comeback run — and Bieber’s unusual act of televised public contrition that preceded it — with his EDM transformation, the entire Purpose era and even a particularly memorable foray into Latin pop.
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