Pop Shop Podcast – New Every Tuesday
Rihanna fans have been waiting not so patiently the last three years for new music, and it finally arrived Friday in the form of the Smurfs soundtrack song “Friend of Mine.” The vibey new song is the perfect backdrop for a Smurf dance-off, as evidenced by the mostly animated music video, but the three-minute-plus track […]
Over the past four years, when Morgan Wallen releases an album, it has camped out at the top of the Billboard 200 for quite some time. Starting with the 10-week No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album in 2021 and continuing with 19-week chart-topper One Thing at a Time in 2023, Wallen has a pretty unimpeachable […]

Lady Gaga reportedly played to 2.5 million fans during her concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday night. It’s a hard-to-fathom crowd size, considering we’ve never seen anything like it for a concert in the United States. When it comes to free U.S. shows, some estimates put Garth Brooks’ 1997 concert […]
With the release of Cowboy Carter last year, a lot of noise was made about whether Beyoncé was “country enough” to put out a country album. More than one year (and her first album of the year Grammy) later, the answer is: of course she was. And she’s further proving her genre prowess on the […]
The minute news broke about an upcoming remake of 1992’s The Bodyguard, the first question became: Who could possibly replace late pop superstar Whitney Houston and leading man Kevin Costner as the duo at the center of the romantic thriller? On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing some of the […]
When Post Malone released F-1 Trillion last year, he conquered yet another genre with the country collab album. And it looks like he’s going back to that well on his next project. On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are joined by Billboard deputy editor Lyndsey Havens to discuss Post’s Sunday headlining set […]
In just over one year, Ariana Grande released her seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine on March 8, 2024, then starred in the Oscar-winning movie musical Wicked that hit theaters in November, and has now returned with the Brighter Days Ahead deluxe reissue of that album on March 28. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, […]

Over her nearly two-decade career, Miley Cyrus has prepared her fans to expect the unexpected. And with her ninth studio album Something Beautiful — a self-described “one-of-a-kind pop opera” — Cyrus might be taking her most ambitious swing yet. The May 30 release is a visual album, and Cyrus unleashed the first two songs and […]

Before we celebrate our Billboard Women in Music honorees this Saturday night — including 2025 Woman of the Year Doechii — the Billboard charts team put together the Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century chart (encompassing women soloists, all-women groups and groups with prominent women’s vocals). On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, […]
Just as Chappell Roan has cemented herself as one of pop’s most promising new stars, winning best new artist at last month’s 2025 Grammys amid a crowded field, she’s taken a left turn toward Nashville for her new country single “The Giver.” On the new Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are chatting […]