This Who Won the Month episode of the 'Greatest Pop Stars' podcast looks at the big names who helped close out the first half of 2026 in pop stardom.
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Parker
It’s a wrap on the first half of the 2026 calendar year in pop stardom — and while we haven’t gotten a ton of totally new chart-topping artists to this point in the year, we have heard all year from a whole lot of the ruling classic of the last decade (or two). This past June was no exception to that trend, as some of the biggest names of recent years returned with new albums, new singles, new tours and/or big new moments, making sure that we enter the back half of the year still reeling from the star power on display.
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