Earlier this month, Charli XCX joined Substack. It’s not odd for a pop star to want to share thoughts in a more long-form, newsletter setting (her friend Lorde notably kept a long-running tour diary ...

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 ...