This Greatest Pop Stars Sidebar looks at the greatest pop stars who were never quite great enough to be our No. 1 for a full ...

In this sidebar to our Greatest Pop Stars by Year article series, we look at the 10 greatest years in the history of modern ...

Taylor Swift is Billboard's No. 2 Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century -- listen to our podcast explaining why.

This Greatest Pop Stars Sidebar looks at Lorde and how her stripped-down "Royals" changed the direction of pop music in the ...

This sidebar to Billboard's Greatest Pop Series looks at how dancehall's second wave made a huge and long-lasting impact on ...

Taylor Swift is one of our Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century for how she changed the sound and image of pop superstardom ...

The pop zeitgeist of 1997 can best be summed up by two people — not musicians, but video directors. At the height of MTV’s power to turn singles into chart hits, Hype Williams and Joseph “McG” McGinty ...

On today’s (Nov. 20) episode of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century podcast, we reach No. 3 on our list with a pop super-duperstar who shined bright for 13 years of absolute pop world command, ...

Our new GPS21C episode covers an artist who changed the direction of hip-hop and pop with his decade-plus of dominance.

By Jason Lipshutz Editor For the 2021 update of our ongoing Greatest Pop Star by Year project, Billboard counted down our staff picks for the top 10 pop stars of 2021. At No. 1. we remember the ye ...

By Andrew Unterberger With the first quarter of the 21st century coming to a close, Billboard is spending the next few months counting down our staff picks for the 25 greatest pop stars of the ...