Pop Shop Podcast

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting about whether "Friend of Mine" is the musical return Rihanna’s fans were hoping for, or how the song could be maximized with a new remix version or once we see it in the full context of the Smurfs movie, in which Rih voices Smurfette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith -- with a research assist from Billboard awards editor Paul Grein -- are talking about why Morgan Wallen's awards shelf doesn't seem to match his popularity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about Lady Gaga's positively massive, record-breaking show (where she reportedly played to more than 2 million fans) and whether it could ever be replicated here in the U.S. — like, are Los Angeles beaches even big enough for such a thing? And where would people park?!? Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Ghost scores its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart — and brings hard rock back to No. 1 for the first time in four years. Plus, how Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” hits a new high on the Billboard Hot 100, climbing all the way to No. 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katie & Keith were both inside for night 1 of Beyoncé's 32-date tour, which kicked off Monday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and on the latest episode of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast we're discussing Bey's message with the new tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith have some suggestions for casting the Whitney Houston & Kevin Costner roles in the upcoming remake of 1992's The Bodyguard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are joined by Billboard deputy editor Lyndsey Havens to discuss Post's Sunday headlining set at Coachella as well as Havens' interview with the superstar in the desert about what's next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting all about the return of Ari the Pop Star after an active awards season for Ari the Movie Star, discussing why it made sense for the six new tracks on Brighter Days Ahead to live in the Eternal Sunshine world rather than as a new project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting all about the first two tastes of Miley Cyrus' 'Something Beautiful' album and what we can expect ahead of its arrival in two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are chatting about Chappell Roan's cheeky new track "The Giver" and how quickly the rookie pop star made this pop-country pivot, following in the recent bootsteps of Beyoncé, Post Malone and Sabrina Carpenter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are marveling at the high-wire act Lady Gaga pulled off with her seventh studio album 'Mayhem.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie tells Keith all about her night inside the Dolby Theatre for the 97th Academy Awards, where the Wicked duo of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo opened the show; LISA, Doja Cat and RAYE teamed up for a three-part tribute to the music of James Bond; and Queen Latifah paid joyful tribute to Quincy Jones. And that was just the performances -- there was also Mick Jagger, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez presenting awards and more music tucked into the four-hour telecast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a new interview, Rihanna spoke at length about her elusive R9 album, and the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is breaking it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking all about Sabrina Carpenter's big week -- from her Vogue cover to her Short n' Sweet deluxe edition with a Dolly Parton duet to her two big looks on the Saturday Night LIve 50th-anniversary special -- and we're recapping all the music moments on the SNL50 special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are breaking down Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show, including guest appearances from SZA and Serena Williams, and chatting about some other moments at the Big Game, including the stadium crowd seemingly booing Taylor Swift on the big screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are breaking down some of the biggest news to come out of Sunday's Grammy awards, including Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour announcement, Lady Gaga's new song and music video, and Kendrick Lamar's big night leading into this weekend's Super Bowl halftime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we near the 2025 Grammy Awards this Sunday, predicting what will happen in the Big Four categories -- album, record and song of the year, along with best new artist -- feels more challenging than ever. Could Chappell Roan sweep the Big Four? Or could it be Beyoncé's time to notch her first win for album of the year? On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting through Billboard awards editor Paul Grein's final predictions and sharing our own takes as we try our best to guess how the night could go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are throwing out some pop names -- Lady Gaga! Madonna! Harry Styles! -- who could fit the groundbreaking arena. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As wildfires continue to threaten Los Angeles and surrounding areas, organizers behind awards shows and related events are figuring out how to pivot to best support the community. Should they move forward and become fundraisers for relief efforts? Or is it best to cancel or postpone to a later date? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing what Beyonce might reveal on Jan. 14, a date she teased on social media after her "Beyoncé Bowl" performance at the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game last month. The leading theory is that she could reveal dates for a Cowboy Carter Tour to follow 2023's megawatt Renaissance Tour, but what if a new album is on the way instead? Plus: Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars ascend to the top of the Hot 100 with "Die With a Smile" and the pop girls leave the Golden Globes empty-handed, but Oscar nominations are still on the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wham!'s Andrew Ridgeley joins the Pop Shop to chat about the duo's evergreen hit "Last Christmas" and how it's been covered by so many artists (including Taylor Swift, among many others), the new documentary "Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped," how the act's music has grown in popularity over the year, and if the public will ever hear the late George Michael's original demo recording of "Last Christmas." Plus, hosts Katie and Keith discuss some of their "favorite things" in pop in 2024, in the final Pop Shop episode of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Christmas episode of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson talks to Katie & Keith about why now was the time for her first holiday album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are taking their annual sleigh ride through a half-dozen Christmas songs impacting the Billboard charts this year. For 2024, we’re taking a look at Jimmy Fallon and Jonas Brothers’ “Holiday”; Cher’s “DJ Play a Christmas Song” remix with Kelly Clarkson; Pentatonix’s “Meet Me Next Christmas”; Dan + Shay’s “Pick Out a Christmas Tree”; Michael Bublé and Carly Pearce’s “Maybe This Christmas”; and Jack Antonoff and Bleachers’ “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about how the two movies have dominated at the box office -- with the Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo-starring Wicked already becoming the highest-grossing Broadway musical film adaptation domestically in its week-plus in theaters -- and how it compares to other recent musical-theater films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the 2025 Coachella lineup was unveiled last week, we learned that Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Green Day and Travis Scott would headline the Indio, California, festival, and if you look below those big-font names, you'll find there are quite a few A-listers scattered throughout the poster. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are breaking it all down and taking a closer look at the three-day fest, which also includes headliner-worthy names like Missy Elliott and Charli XCX; hitmakers like Benson Boone, Shaboozey, Megan Thee Stallion, Zedd and GloRilla; and K-pop superstars like ENHYPEN, LISA, JENNIE and XG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, we welcome Billboard deputy editor Lyndsey Havens so she and Katie can tell Keith all about their night out at the Forum, where Sabrina Carpenter's pop-star vision finally became a reality with a huge stage production and an even bigger fanbase. Plus, Lyndsey sat down last week with Billboard cover star Olivia Rodrigo for a Superstar Q&A at the Billboard Live Music Summit, and she tells us all about her panel discussion with the Guts-y singer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about breakout star Shaboozey's's 17-week Hot 100 chart-topper "A Bar Song (Tipsy)." Can it match or break the record for most weeks at No. 1 on the chart? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the 2025 Grammy nominations are unveiled on Friday (Nov. 8), there's a world where the year's biggest pop stars dominate the storyline. Billboard awards editor Paul Grein has shared his final Big Four predictions ahead of Friday's announcement, and he thinks pop women will lead the biggest categories, including Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet, Charli XCX's Brat and Chappell Roan's The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking through Paul's predictions before we learn the Big Four chosen few later this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about how Chappell Roan is charting a new course for young artists by speaking up for how she wants to be treated and not accepting the way things were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When One Direction arrived in America in 2011, the five-member British boy band took the pop world by storm. More than a decade later, fans of the wildly popular group were devastated to learn of the death of Liam Payne last week at age 31. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith reflect on Payne's loss and discuss how his tragic death robs 1D fans of the chance to ever see their beloved group perform together again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie and Keith are chatting about Stevie Nicks' pair of powerful performances on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, especially her urgent, fiery delivery on "The Lighthouse," which arrived late last month and was inspired by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are taking a closer look at the hotly contested best new artist category at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Who is in the running? Who could get nominated? It's a crowded field with everyone from Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan to Shaboozey, Benson Boone, Tommy Richman and Teddy Swims all vying for a nomination. Listen to the latest episode below to hear who made the cut, who was left out, and whose names we were surprised to see on the list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The season 50 premiere of "Saturday Night Live" was a very musical episode, and it's got Keith and Katie thinking about what could be in store for the rest of the historic season. Could "SNL" bring back season one performers? Maybe introduce some legendary acts to the "SNL" stage for the first time? Plus, chart news about Future, Katy Perry and Chappell Roan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, we give you a taste of an action-packed weekend in Las Vegas, as Katie recounts to Keith all the details of covering the Eagles' opening night on Friday at the Sphere and then popping in for The Weeknd, Doja Cat, Halsey, Hozier, New Kids on the Block and more for iHeartRadio Music Festival's second night on Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about Katy Perry's "I'm His, He's Mine," featuring Top Dawg singer/rapper Doechii on a fiery duet that made its live debut on Wednesday's MTV Video Music Awards. The song includes a prominent sample of Crystal Waters' 1991 Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)," which roots the song in a nostalgic feel while still feeling wholly modern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking through all our burning questions after Kendrick Lamar was announced as the 2025 halftime headliner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing all the possibilities for the upcoming film based on Britney Spears' memoir 'The Woman in Me,' set to be helmed by 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu. Who should join Spears in the ultimate early 2000s pop power couple as Justin Timberlake? Who should play Britney's mom, dad and sister? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You and I are going to live forever -- or at least long enough to see Oasis reunite. On Tuesday (Aug. 27), 15 years since they last performed together, estranged brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher brokered a truce and announced 14 concerts in the U.K. and Ireland for next summer. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about the unexpected reunion tour announcement and why Katie's already planning her 2025 summer trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about why they make such a potent pop duo. Plus, we’re also chatting about F-1 Trillion, Post Malone’s first country album and why is such a seamless fit in the genre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who says you can't go home? On Sunday night, Miley Cyrus revisited her teenage origin story, heading to D23 in Anaheim, California, for the Disney Legends Ceremony. On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about Cyrus revisiting her Hannah Montana beginnings at the D23 fan event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are dropping our best theories for what news Taylor Swift might drop on the MTV Video Music Awards crowd this time around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2024 Summer Olympics only kicked off on Friday, and already we've seen huge moments from Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Beyoncé and more music A-listers. On the new Billboard Pop Podcast, Katie & Keith talk about all the music highlights from the summer games (so far). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing Billboard awards editor Paul Grein's early predictions for next year's Grammys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are opening up the listener mailbag to answer your burning questions - including a question about why radio is still important (and very valuable) in the streaming age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are checking in on this year's Song of the Summer race, with a little help from Gary Trust & Jason Lipshutz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about carving out a solo lane after being part of a successful pop group, just like Fifth Harmony alums Camila Cabello and Normani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about Swift's trio of buzzy Wembley Stadium shows, including Travis Kelce's onstage debut and a galaxy of A-listers in attendances (including Paul McCartney and Tom Cruise). Plus, there's chart news about Sabrina Carpenter scoring her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Please Please Please" and Swift holding atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a ninth straight week with "The Tortured Poets Department." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about what Katy Perry's next era looks like, 10 years after her last Hot 100 No. 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing Ariana Grande's "The Boy Is Mine" and Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please," which both include famous leads and movie-worthy storylines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about what led Jennifer Lopez and The Black Keys to call off recent arena tours and what might have prevented their cancellations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices