Greatest Pop Stars of 2025: No. 2, Taylor Swift

Our Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 series continues its top 10 with a look at our No. 2 artist, Taylor Swift. Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard's Denise Warner to talk about Taylor Swift's incredible sixth straight year in the top five of our Greatest Pop Stars rankings — with a full-circle moment in her masters reacquisition, a beyond-historic first week on the Billboard 200 for her 'Life of a Showgirl' album, and plenty more incredible moments serving as crucial checks off the career to-do list for the biggest pop star of the 2020s.

Find all our Greatest Pop Stars of 2025 essays and podcasts here:

https://www.billboard.com/t/greatest-pop-stars-of-2025/

Check out a YouTube playlist of all the best Taylor Swift 2025 moments here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwFs58D1XAMYJCylODGk0ADiLpV3Mmzoj&si=c5W32Yum49YhvSyw

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