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Greatest Pop Stars Podcast: 2024 Nos. 2 & 1: Sabrina Carpenter & Kendrick Lamar
Our Greatest Pop Stars of 2024 podcast series ends with a look at Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar, our Nos. 2 and 1 pop stars.
On this final episode of the 2024 series, host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard hip-hop writer Michael Saponara and branded producer and social manager Meghan Mahar to talk about those top two Greatest Pop Stars, which we just unveiled this Monday (Dec. 23). We start off with a reminder of just how far removed Lamar was from this discussion going into this year — and really for the whole decade up until this point — and then get into how he changed the narrative and ended 2024 atop a historically packed pop star class. Then, we talk about the late-game drop of his GNX album — and how that might have simplified what was shaping up to be an impossibly difficult decision going into these rankings — and whether Kendrick is already setting up 2025 to be just as dominant a pop star year for him as 2024.
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