Kendrick Lamar Named No. 1 Pop Star Of The Year By Billboard

    Kendrick Lamar has been crowned the No. 1 pop star of 2024 on Billboard‘s annual Greatest Pop Star by Year list.

    The publication’s editorial staff selected their 10 Greatest Pop Stars of 2024, a list that includes Beyoncé at No. 8, Drake as an honorable mention and Shaboozey as Rookie of the Year.

    But Dot took the top spot, behind Sabrina Carpenter at No. 2 and Taylor Swift at No. 3.

    “What made Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 so remarkable was that he didn’t just remind us of all the reasons why he was so big at his commercial and cultural peak – he showed that he could do things we’d never even seen from him before,” Billboard‘s Andrew Unterbeger wrote. “He showed that he was capable of hitting heights no other rapper had reached this decade, a period that had otherwise marked something of a downturn for the once seemingly indomitable genre’s mainstream prospects.

    “He showed that he was able to create cultural moments of both singular blunt-force impact and massive historical gravity – and then to do it again, and then again. And he showed that at his absolute best and biggest, he could dominate the streets, the charts and everywhere in between with equal sun-blocking vastness, and emerge as the winner not only when pitted against his most direct adversaries, but against any other potential peer in popular music.”

    Meanwhile, Billboard had a different choice for their 2024 Billboard Music Awards earlier this month – awarding Drake with Top Rap Artist over his nemesis Kendrick Lamar.

    However, honorees for those awards are selected by performance on the Billboard charts.

    Drizzy won three awards, defeating Kendrick, Future, Metro Boomin and Travis Scott for Top Rap Artist (all but Scott had been involved in the series of back-and-forth records and other disses this past spring and summer); taking home the trophy for Top Rap Album, as For All the Dogs defeated projects from 21 Savage, Future and Metro, Nicki Minaj and Rod Wave; and also defeating Lamar and Scott for Top Rap Male Artist.

    Kendrick did not go home empty handed, though. His Drake diss “Not Like Us” won Top Rap Song honors.

    18 thoughts on “Kendrick Lamar Named No. 1 Pop Star Of The Year By Billboard

    1. Makes sense. Worst year in hip-hip easily by leaps and bounds. TV Off aka as Not Like Us Lite is the one of the worst interpolations to date much less that an artist performed copying himself. Alcohol doesn’t seem to be helping his creative process at all. Maybe he should start smoking weed. Pause.

      1. Drake is that you? Still bitter about Kendrick chewing you and spitting you up huh? Well it ain’t over yet. Wait and see his performance of “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl in front of millions of viewers.

    2. I salute and respect you King Kendrick Lamar, Congratulations Brother on your No1 spot. “We gonna be alright ” Black Power

      #TheJigIsUp

      1. that’s why your people still stuck in mud huts after 50 million years duplicity , idiocy and naivete. build a stadium so we can tour down there clown

    3. I salute and respect you King Kendrick Lamar, Congratulations Brother on your No1 spot. “We gonna be alright ” Black Power

      #TheJigIsUp

    4. kendrick lamar overrated as hell the same names keep reappearing the grammy awards are soon but i ain’t holding my breath for any meaningful change its about money what else not about talent about being fair about the kendrick lamar cash cow but hey any business has to make money as for myself… ZzzzzzzzzzZzzzZzzzzzzzzzzz

      1. @Antonio Can’t front…Kendrick is overrated. But he. stands out because next to these damn Drill/Trap/THOT stars he looks like fkn Shakespeare. I definitely applaud him for calling Drake and the industry out though. It was long, long, long overdue.

    5. rap f8ggot of the year black betrayer of the century. just kill yourself homo. and if you are a black man cheering on your own degradation destruction and deprivation if you are so thirsty for white acceptance you cheer a black man calling another black man a pedo for clout knowing the consequences? Take a look around loser. Don’t drink with these cocksuckers. these homos will betray you 🤓🚮

      1. I’m an overly sensitive little bitch who hasn’t stopped ranting about Kendrick beating my daddy Drake since the summer when the beef started. I spend my waking hours trolling my dislike for Kendrick on any article he’s mentioned because he hurt my little F@ggy feelings for saying such mean things about my daddy. I get my pussy hurt whenever you “Kendrick supporters” talk back to me and I have to go back and forth because I’m in my feelings like a woman. So I spend all this time using different names and upvoting myself because I’m a hypocrite loser who has no life outside of saying things about Kendrick Lamar on this website. My name is Great Greg, but you can call me Gay Greg or 🤔

    6. Well the African Drake bots took over another comment section. Africa is lame AF. Drake still lost spear chucker… Kendrick for the win

    7. Pop star ? Being on the same list with taylor swift ? So basically he is becoming the new Drake. Was it really supposed to go that route ? So now who comes after Kendrick ? Someone needs to go after him now. He done went pop and became everything Drake was.

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