Can you tell me what is popular nowadays in pop music?

[Horrorlover656]

I am super out of touch.

 

[DuranDuran]

Well, here's the Top 10 in Billboard this week

Hot 100 (singles)
1 Shaboozey ~ A Bar Song (Tipsy)
2 Post Malone Feat. Morgan Wallen ~ I Had Some Help
3 Kendrick Lamar ~ Not Like Us
4 Tommy Richman ~ Million Dollar Baby
5 Sabrina Carpenter ~ Espresso
6 Sabrina Carpenter ~ Please Please Please
7 Hozier ~ Too Sweet
8 Teddy Swims ~ Lose Control
9 Benson Boone ~ Beautiful Things
10 Eminem ~ Houdini

Billboard 200 (albums)
1 Eminem ~ The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)
2 ENHYPEN ~ Romance : Untold
3 Zach Bryan ~ The Great American Bar Scene
4 Taylor Swift ~ The Tortured Poets Department
5 Morgan Wallen ~ One Thing At A Time
6 Billie Eilish ~ Hit Me Hard And Soft
7 Chappell Roan ~ The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess
8 Clairo ~ Charm
9 Megan Moroney ~ Am I Okay?
10 Noah Kahan ~ Stick Season

 

[filmandmusic]

I never heard of:

- Shaboozey
- Tommy Richman
- Teddy Swims
- Benson Boone
- ENHYPEN
- Zach Bryan
- Morgan Wallen
- Chappell Roan
- Clairo
- Megan Moroney
- Noah Kahan

I vaguely recall the name of the artist:

- Post Malone
- Sabrina Carpenter (saw her name in a newspaper during festival season)
- Hozier

I heard music by this artist or I know what they look like but don’t really know them well

- Kendrick Lamar
- Taylor Swift

I have heard the artist and am pretty familiar with some of their songs

- Billie Eilish
- Eminem (strange case here, if this was a new artist I would not have heard of him but I know his hits from the 2000s, pretty impressive he is still huge to be fair)

 

[DuranDuran]

^^Some of these artists are hip hop, country, or a mixture of both genres (sometimes called "hick-hop"). Since you've said you don't like rap, I guess you wouldn't know them. ENHYPEN is a K-pop group like BTS. Teddy Swims would be what they called decades ago "blue-eyed soul" aka a white R&B singer.

 

[Piek]

I felt out of touch as well... so I started listening to the podcast Switched on Pop by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding. Not only do they keep me informed... their excellent analysis of new music also makes me appreciate new pop music. I was listening to this episode about Charli XCX, and I really was impressed by her album Brat. The funny thing is: I didn't think much of it before I heard the podcast. The same goes for this episode about Sabrina Carpenter and this one about Chappell Roan.