1 on the newly launched Billboard TikTok Top 50. An even-bigger hit followed in the freewheeling “SkeeYee” (No. At the top of the year, Sexyy released the slow-burning single, which eventually rode a Nicki Minaj remix to a peak of No. Their Year in Pop: Thanks to Sexyy Red, the whole world wanted to go to “Pound Town” in 2023. Why Not Top 10: As important of a year as this was Gunna, the rapper didn’t quite match his previous commercial heights: A Gift & A Curse missing the top of the Billboard 200 (he’s visited that slot twice before) definitely hurt his chances, as did his surprising Grammys shutout. 4), along with minor hits “Back At It,” “Back to the Moon” and “Rodeo Dr.” With two sold-out headlining arena shows in NYC and LA and a late-game Afrobeats hit in his remix of Victor Thompson’s “Blessings” – Gunna didn’t just survive the (largely unwarranted) backlash, he rendered it inconsequential. Summer smash “Fukumean” soon followed, becoming Gunna’s highest-peaking unaccompanied entry on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. Their Year in Pop: We all love a comeback, don’t we? To bookmark his return home from a six-month prison stint following his Alford plea to a single charge of racketeering in the greater YSL RICO case, Gunna went back to basics with top 50 hit “Bread & Butter.” That song was featured on Gunna’s acclaimed 2023 album A Gift & A Curse, which found the rapper facing his controversies head-on and making a fifth consecutive trip to the Billboard 200’s top 5 (No. Read on below for our best-of-the-rest picks in alphabetical order, and apologies to all the veteran hitmakers and rising phenoms whose presence we couldn’t make room for with just 10 honorable mention spots - it was a huge year for pop stars new and old, and even a top 50 we would’ve probably ended up leaving someone out. You’ll probably get the hang of what we mean. (And we measure this over the entire 2023 calendar, so if you were only heard from at the beginning or end of the year - or only had one big song or moment - that’s gonna hurt your performance here as well.) They play a big part in our final rankings, of course - but so do things like music videos, live performances and social media presence, and more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. 5: Morgan Wallenįirst, though, our obligatory reminder that unlike with our Year-End Charts, these Greatest Pop Stars are not mathematically determined by stats like chart position, streams or sales numbers. Rookie of the Year: Peso Pluma | Comeback of the Year: Miley Cyrus | No. But first, we’ve got our 10 honorable mentions for this year - as well as our rookie and comeback artists of the year, to be unveiled later today. We’ll be counting down our top 10 over the course of next week, with our top two being revealed on Friday (Dec. Billboard’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2022: Introduction & Honorable Mentions (Staff List)Īnd now, it’s about time for our 2023 rankings.
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