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Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century Podcast: Lady Gaga (No. 5)
Lady Gaga is Billboard's No. 5 Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century -- listen to our podcast explaining why.
Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard Pride editor Stephen Daw and BB executive digital director Katie Atkinson to remember all the ups and downs of Lady Gaga’s 16-year pop journey. Then, we wax nostalgic about that Gaga era — how she was able to detonate upon impact with her 2009 arrival to top 40 stardom, and how her ’09 just kept getting bigger and weirder and more all-consuming until it ended up perhaps the greatest rookie season in pop music history. We also recall how Gaga’s early-career peak raised the bar for all of her pop peers moving forward, in everything from her TV interviews to her headlining tours to her award-show performances to her red-carpet outfits — and particularly her music videos, which helped resuscitate the format at its post- TRL cultural low point.
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