Leading up to the release of Billboard's staff picks for the 10 best pop stars of 2021, here is a list of artists who just missed the cut.
runthrough at the American Music Awards. The ultimate outsider of early-’10s pop culture had officially embraced being an insider.The same thing that’s always held Tyler back from conventional pop stardom: He doesn’t have any hits you’d hear in a CVS, or any songs your aunt and uncle would know.
That album, along with his surrounding beef with Drake — a multi-year affair resurfaced in time to get hip-hop fans all over the world siding with one during their consecutive LP releases — ensured the world’s eyes were on West for a solid month or two in the late summer. The sprawling, gospel-influencedfinally arrived on a Sunday morning in August, and was greeted with a resounding streaming bow, setting the benchmark for first-week performance in 2021 with its 309,000 first-week units moved.