Shakira's singular artistry and near-peerless career longevity helped break barriers in pop music throughout the past quarter century.
Our new GPS21C episode covers one of the most prolific artists of the entire 21st century -- and a guy who's led pop music for nearly 15 years with under 60 songs total.
The self-crowned Best Rapper Alive became the center of the entire pop world in the late 2000s.
As we count down our picks for the greatest pop stars of the last 25 years, listen to our staffers go deeper every week on each artist -- their careers, their catalogs and their legacies.
The megastar’s talents are often undercut because of his mass appeal. Here’s why that’s unfair.
Few pop stars of the 2010s were as self-made as Ed Sheeran, who became a global superstar largely on his own unique terms.
No one personified pop music at the turn of the 2010s more than Katy Perry, whose peak ultimately lasted both much longer and much shorter than expected.
Over the next four months, Billboard will be unveiling our picks for the 25 most important and impactful pop stars of the last 25 years. But first: the best of the rest.