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Greatest Pop Stars Podcast: 2024 Nos. 10-7: Jelly Roll, Billie Eilish, Post Malone & Beyoncé

This episode of our Greatest Pop Stars Podcast looks at artists Nos. 10-7 of our 2024 rankings: Jelly Roll, Billie Eilish, Post Malone and Beyoncé.

We start by covering the fundamentally obvious: that it’s kinda insane and maybe indefensible that a pop star as transparently great (and who had as huge a 2024) as Billie Eilish could end up so low on this list. We also debate what it is about him that keeps the other biggest pop stars in the world keep reaching out to him for key collabs, and whether he should stick around in country for a little longer in the years to come — or try his hand in yet another new genre. We examine how the Queen was able to keep raising the bar for both herself and for all of pop stardom in 2024 with her Cowboy Carter project — and debate whether there’s any merit to the idea of the album being a bit of an underperformer by her standards, either in commercial returns or replay value — and also remember how Bey dominated the year’s headlines for what she didn’t do as much as what she did.

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